rclone on Android to access any remote storage

I have a use case where I need to copy files from Nextcloud to S3 storage using my phone, and I think I finally found the perfect apps for this.

While I use rclone on my PC, I wasn’t aware of any app for this on Android. But there actually is some: RSAF (available on GitHub or F-Droid). It uses rclone and provides an integration into the native Android storage framework.

Using the native file manager (which can be accessed more easily using a shortcut app like this), you can view, copy, move, delete, etc., files on the remote storage.

Given I have also already the Nextcloud app installed, which shows up in the native file manager as well, I can now easily copy files from Nextcloud to the S3 storage.

Setting up remotes with RSAF is exactly like on the desktop rclone; you can also import existing rclone configurations.