If your job requires sending a lot of large files or if you want an easy way to send a large number of photos to someone, zip files are a must, even on your phone! This article shows you how to compress or decompress large files on an Android smartphone.
RARis a decompression tool developed by the people who createdWinRAR, a Windows application with the same purpose. Thanks to the mobile application, you can decompress files in RAR, ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, 7z, ISO and ARJ formats. However, you can only archive or compress files in RAR and ZIP formats. We will show you how to use RAR to compress files to RAR and ZIP formats and then useZArchiver tocompress files to the perfect 7z format.
Using this application will allow you to easily handle such files. The steps below show what to do.
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How to use RAR to unpack files on Android
- Download and install RAR from thePlay Store.
- Open the RAR application. It will take you directly to your files.
- Go to the directory where the file was downloaded. Tap the folder where the file is located.
- Click to put a check mark next to the file to extract.
- Tap the Extract button.
- Select the desired destination path by clicking the button and selecting an option. You can choose a different path by clicking Browse. You can also use the default path.
- Touch OK.
Then the program will show you the files that were in the ZIP folder.
Create a ZIP or RAR file
It’s also simple to create a zip file on your phone, so you can easily send it via email or any other method of your choice.
- Open the RAR application.
- In the file manager, select the files you want to send by checking the box next to them. Make sure the total size does not exceed 707 MB.
- Click the “Archive” button.
- Select the file format you want to use from RAR, ZIP or RAR 4.x.
- Change the target path if you want to use something other than the default.
- If you want, you can also add a password to the folder that the recipient will need to open the files.
- If you want to delete files, you can check the box here. You can also create a solid file. A full file is a file packed with a special compression method that treats the files in the file as a continuous stream of data. You must save as RAR for this option to work.
- Click OK.
Create an Android 7Z file
According to our own testing, 7Z (or 7zip) is the most efficient compression format. While the above RAR application does not allow you to archive files in the 7Z format, you can use another great application called ZArchiver to create 7Z archives.
On ZArchiver, you can convert folders to 7Z (or ZIP) files with a simple, long tap on the folder you want to compress and then hitting Compress.
On this screen you can choose the file format (select 7z) and the compression level; the higher the compression level, the smaller the file will be, but it will take longer to compress.
When you are done, tap OK and wait for the compression to finish.
In the image below you can see that the file has been compressed at 37% which is pretty cool!
Now you can send these files with less worry that the recipient will not receive them due to their large size. Want to do more with Android? Here’s how to connect an Xbox One controller to your phone. We can also show you how to adjust the phone volume with these cool apps.