FTP access to your Android

[Harrison]

It has always been a hassle to plug mobiles into the computer via USB, or take the memory card out, just to transfer some files between the 2 systems. So I thought I would see if I could get WiFi tranfers to work.

I just tried an Android App called FTPServer on my Xperia Play and it works perfectly.

Very simple to setup. Just give it a port number to use, and set a username and password for anyone from a computer to log in. Then click start.

And from the PC end just load your favourite FTP client and point it at the lan URL (shown on the phone when you set the FTP server up and it connects and you have full access to your mobile's files to cover from, or upload to.

Nice and simple and so much easier than fiddling around with USB cables, USB drivers, phone software etc.



Note: I also tried another App called SwiFTP FTP Server initially, as it had the most ratings, but it is fairly old now (out since Android 1.5) and although it connected OK it refused to let me navigate the phone directories, keeping throwing up access rights issues.

With FTPServer I've not had any of these problems and it connects much faster and is very fast to navigate and copy files.