File Manager aka Files app

This directory contains the UI (HTML/JS/TS/CSS) for ChromeOS File Manager.

In this directory we find 2 apps:

• Files app in ./file_manager/: Main code for Files app.
• Image Loader in ./image_loader/: Auxiliary Chrome extension that tries to extract an image representation of a given file (image, raw image, video, pdf, etc).

Other relevant directories:

• //ash/webui/file_manager/: C++ and HTML/JS for the SWA (System Web App) wrapper.
• //chrome/browser/ash/file_manager/: Most of our C++ code running on the browser process.
• //chrome/browser/ash/extensions/file_manager/: fileManagerPrivate Our private API and some other code running on the browser process.
• //chrome/common/extensions/api/file_manager_private.idl and file_manager_private_internal.idl: The Private API definition.

Other READMEs

See the following READMEs for more details on the sub-directories.

• ./file_manager/lib/README.md
• ./file_manager/widgets/README.md
• ./file_manager/state/README.md
• ./file_manager/containers/README.md
• ./image_loader/piex/README.md

More info

[Internal only] Files app team maintains some more information in http://go/xf-site.