abFiles is an Android app developed by Acer Inc. (26F, 116, Sec. 1, Xintai 5th Rd.Xizhi, New Taipei City, 221Taiwan). Others apps created by Acer Inc. are: abMusic, abPhoto, Acer Portal, AcerRemote.

abFiles first became available on 25 Jan 2013. It is estimated that abFiles has been downloaded between 5000000 and 10000000 times from the Play Store.

abFiles 2.09.2004 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.

Allows applications to enter Wi-Fi Multicast mode.

Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows an application to read the low-level system log files.

Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.

Allows applications to read the sync settings.

Allows an application to write to external storage.