Android phones and tablets have replaced computers in many ways and a lot of people are depending on their android devices for many of their tasks. So there might be a situation or incident where one have to unzip a zipped file. While there are a lot of options and simple ways to do that on personal computers, the android devices also have a few. So today, in this piece of article, let us have a look at the android apps that may help you to unzip files.
Let us go through a few apps that are available in the Google Playstore that might help you to unzip zipped files.
EXPLORER:
This is a combination of a file explorer and a file extractor. This is a perfect choice for those who are looking for a file explorer as it has in it inbuilt file extractor to unzip your zipped file. To unzip a zipped file, you just have to long press it and from the menu select extract.
ZARCHIVER:
This application allows you to create archives and unzip files. The simple process of long pressing the file you need to unzip and then pressing on the extract option with extract the files in the same directory or in the location that you specify. This app supports major zip formats like .zip, .rar, .7z, .bzip2, .gzip and tar.
RAR:
This is an excellent android application for creating and extracting .rar files. This app also comes with a basic file explorer but encryption and decryption of .7z files may involve some issues.
ANDROZIP FILE MANAGER:
This is another file manager with the added features to zip and unzip files. This app supports file formats like .zip, .tar, .bzip2, and .rar encrypted zip files.
So, have any of these android apps on your device to make zipping and unzipping easy.