The widely-known application for handling compression and decompression of files is now available for the Android operating system. RAR is a very popular tool which lets you create RAR and ZIP archives and extract RAR, ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, 7z, ISO, ARJ archives. The user interface of this app is mostly composed from a folder browser and you can use it to decompress or compress files.
The process of creating an archive is quite simple. You just have to use the interface and navigate to the location of your target files and folders. The next step is to select them and enter a name for the newly created archive. One of the best thing about this app is that you can also set a password in order to protect your archives.
You will find this small feature very important when dealing with important and sensitive documents and other files of the same importance. Just like the computer version, RAR for Android takes advantage of multiple CPU cores to compress and decompress the data faster. Being a free application the developer places ads, but you can pay inside the Options menu and have the advertisements turned off.
RAR also works with multipart files.