Hello everyone, the new release with the much requested USB support is finally here! (Couldn't have done it without @DarkMatterCore's usb library) It's worth mentioning since it is such a big update (backend changes and FS refactor) there *may* be some issues, but the only way I can find and fix those is through you guys! However rest assured, I did run a lot of tests myself to make sure it is functioning as expected. If I waited a month, it would've been exactly 2 years since the last release .

Change-log:

• FS:
  • Added support for browsing USB devices.
  • Switched back to libc to handle FS operations.
  • Brought back support for browsing other devices such as safe, user and system.
• GUI:
  • Update to imGui v1.88.
  • Switch to imGui's new keyEvent API.
  • The two views (File Browser and Settings) can now be navigated as tabs.
  • Switched from list view to a table view using imGui's table API.
  • Sorting is no longer applied from settings, it can be done directly by clicking on the table column headers.
  • A new selector has been added to allow the user to switch to different devices such as safe, user, USB etc.
  • Settings are no longer categorized by imGui's tree system.
  • No longer uses SDL2 as a backend, but instead uses opengl v3 directly (along with egl).
• Fixes:
  • Properly delete config file if the config file version is outdated.
  • Properly free textures after exiting application.
  • Fixed scrolling via the right joystick after zooming into an image.
  • Lots of code clean up and under the hood changes that are too many to list here.

Spoiler: Screenshots

Download: https://github.com/joel16/NX-Shell/releases

 

[huma_dawii]

I can't wait for The Switch Homebrew awards, this is my favorite! One of the best with an amazing UI

 

[Joel16]

What are the chances of having .mp4 support sooner rather than later?

None. Something I've never worked with isn't gonna come anytime soon.

 

[Imancol]

None. Something I've never worked with isn't gonna come anytime soon.

How do you make it so that it has Es File style?

 

[machine69_420]

None. Something I've never worked with isn't gonna come anytime soon.

It's actually very simple with library like ffmpeg, but that has yet to be ported to switch. :/

 

[Joel16]

How do you make it so that it has Es File style?

Creativity (Also that's replicating CM file manager not ES)

It's actually very simple with library like ffmpeg, but that has yet to be ported to switch. :/

I'm aware of that. Once/if it does get ported at some point I can talk a look. However I can't give any etas on that hence why I said none at this point.

 

[ploggy]

This is looking very slick, thank you. Are you planning on adding touch support?

 

[Joel16]

This is looking very slick, thank you. Are you planning on adding touch support?

Yes, I should probably put a list of planned features somewhere tbh.

 

[frange41]

Great job, Joel16. Thanks

 

[MrWhosHacking]

best part of this is that i can be on the road or bar and use my hotspot and download roms on iphone and use an app FTPmanger its free on iphone and FTP over to switch..... great work once again

 

[Leonidas87]

@Joel16 hows the progress coming along with the media/audio player aspect of the file browser?

Zoom being added to pictures at all also?

 

[Joel16]

@Joel16 hows the progress coming along with the media/audio player aspect of the file browser?

Zoom being added to pictures at all also?

Not too much progress. Plays various formats thanks to SDL_Mixer, can only pause/play music ATM, ID3 parsing for MP3 files, that's about it.
Haven't made any improvements to the image viewer, but I'll take a look and try to add zooming. If everything goes well, I could be able to release another BETA this week.

 

[Leonidas87]

Not too much progress. Plays various formats thanks to SDL_Mixer, can only pause/play music ATM, ID3 parsing for MP3 files, that's about it.
Haven't made any improvements to the image viewer, but I'll take a look and try to add zooming. If everything goes well, I could be able to release another BETA this week.

That is some great news, keep up the great work.

I'm here for testing if you need it.

4.1.0 and 5.1.0

 

[daedelus82]

Thanks so much for this, it's really good. Just highlighting one thing I haven't seen so far in this thread, for the author and other users, 'move' doesn't appear to leave the file in-place, simply updating the relevant pointers, it appears to make a brand new copy of the file and then delete the source. If you're copying a XCI from one location to another it will take a very long time.

 

[xXDungeon_CrawlerXx]

Still hoping for a music and video player soon <3

 

[Leonidas87]

Still hoping for a music and video player soon <3

I'm sure it is close, dont want to rush the developer.

Probably some last minute tweaks and testing.

May see it this week as a musician I'll be very happy

 

[Joel16]

Thanks so much for this, it's really good. Just highlighting one thing I haven't seen so far in this thread, for the author and other users, 'move' doesn't appear to leave the file in-place, simply updating the relevant pointers, it appears to make a brand new copy of the file and then delete the source. If you're copying a XCI from one location to another it will take a very long time.

If you do have any better ideas feel free to send a PR. Right now I'm working on getting some more functionality to the program without breaking anything as I go. Improvements in many areas will show up later.

I'm sure it is close, dont want to rush the developer.

Probably some last minute tweaks and testing.

May see it this week as a musician I'll be very happy

Hm, I will try to get a weekly beta release out by tomorrow. If I don't, I'll have to release it next week.

 

[steven89]

@Joel16 hows progress coming along?
thanks for all your hard work on this fantastic project comes in so useful

 

[maruuu07]

Is renaming possible?

 

[steven89]

@maruuu07 I believe its a feature thats still being worked on, something to do devs needing to work out how to call the api the os uses to bring up the on screen keyboard

 

[Joel16]

@Joel16 hows progress coming along?
thanks for all your hard work on this fantastic project comes in so useful

As of now, I'm quite close to another BETA.
Seems a lot of people are requesting rename to be added so it's going to take a bit of time. There's still one bug I need to fix with the music player. If the user skips to the next/previous song and then tries to return to the browser the switch will crash. Once I get that sorted as well as the renaming option, the next beta should be available.