We will discuss further about its HTTP server in another post soon.MiXplorer is a comprehensive file management tool that helps you work comfortably with all the files and folders on your Android. File sharing via HTTP server is less highly functional and less convenient than a good FTP client or FTP transfer but does not require FTP client and can be done in most browsers. This HTTP server allows navigation of directory structure and management of files on Android mobile through web browsers on computers or other mobile devices connected to the same local network. If you only need to download files from Android phone to PC or Mac not the other way around, you can simply activate the HTTP server on Android phone, then connect to the HTTP server using any desktop browser on your computer. A workaround is to use the file transfer via HTTP server as follows. We test MiXplorer version 6.44.0 on an Android device which is running on Android 7. JPG files however can be downloaded via FTP without any problem. Images were corrupted when we downloaded them from Android phone to PC through this FTP server transfer. We found this method doesn’t work with PNG images. They are however not so powerful or user-friendly in file transfer like those professional FTP tools.

Connecting to Android FTP server using web browserĮxcept FTP clients, you can also use Windows File Explorer, web browsers like Edge, Safari, Chrome on computer to connect to the FTP server on mobile phone. Once the connection established, you can navigate through the directory structure and manage files on the Android device from FTP client applications on your PC or Mac. If you have set your login information, enter the username and password into the Username field and Password field separately. Enter the Portfield with the FTP server port number which is 2121 by default. Enter the FTP server address into the quickconnect bar’s Hostfield. We will use its Windows version in this demo. We will use the quickconnect bar for establishing the connection below. There are different ways to connect to Android FTP server from computer using this FTP client. We recommend FileZilla FTP which is cross-platform, easy to use and best of all totally FREE. Use a desktop FTP program to connect to the FTP server on Android. Connect to Android FTP server from computerĬonnect your Windows PC or Mac computer to the same Wi-Fi network in your local network. You can tap on the FTP server again to turn it off.

For example, you can create an FTP account with username and password, choose a different FTP server path, define a different port number, ensure secure FTP via FTPS, etc. Note that you can also tap on the Edit icon after the FTP server to configure the FTP server.

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