Jelly Bean different flavors (?)

[1Ando]

I have three android 4.1 tablets. Two use File Manager as the native file management app, and one uses Explorer - a native app to the tablet. It's interface is completely different. Anyone know what the story about this is?

 

[Golfdriver97]

I have three android 4.1 tablets. Two use File Manager as the native file management app, and one uses Explorer - a native app to the tablet. It's interface is completely different. Anyone know what the story about this is?

I would guess the difference is manufacturers. What are they? OEMs can blanket any apps they want over Vanilla Android. Even though they are all 4.1, because of the OEM skin, they are the same, yet different.

 

[B. Diddy]

There isn't any stock Android file manager app, as you'd be able to see from looking at any Nexus device. So any file manager app that comes preinstalled on a device is from the manufacturer, not Google.

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[garublador]

Each version of Android that Google releases is just a bunch of generic code that's not hardware specific (unless they make it for some Nexus device or something), so the hardware manufacturers have to take that code and modify it to work on their specific hardware. When they do that they almost always change some of the default apps and some of the look and feel of the UI to make their device unique.