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(Android) ZipXtract| An open source app to extract rar, zip, tar, bz2, gz, 7z, xz, jar and z etc (encrypted .zip & .7z supported)

ZipXtract FD | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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Awesome, I was looking for a good Open Source Apps for compressed files for quite some time.
Nice app. Previously, I used the Zarchiver application to unpack zip archives. This application is closed source but does not contain trackers.
I once bought a CD of a guy with music on it, because they where ripped off by Spotify and didnt want to be their b**ch anymore.
They gave me a dropbox link along with it, with a huge zip archive containing the FLACs, no filemanager could extract it, but ZipXtract worked!
Rar? I thought rar only had binaries so no fdroid app could extract them.
- There is a free version, its called unrar and preinstalled on many Linux Distros. You can only uncompress, which is 200% enough for that stupid format XD
  
  According to Wikipedia there are two versions of unrar, a free one which supports older versions of RAR, and the proprietary RARLab one that supports newer versions.
  There's also a tool called The Unarchiver that supports RARv5 although it has been bought out and is currently proprietary, the free version is still available. Theoretically it could be used to provide RAR decompression for apps such as this one.
  
  Yeah idk why youd wanna use rar
  
  It's* called unrar
- Wait a second, I think you are correct, I just read the changelog from f-droid and they removed rar from the f-droid version.

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