I understand that feeling, however file playback is pretty fundamental.
PdDroidParty cannot make as much of a promise for this regarding GUIs, but it does seem to handle most of the common use cases.
Message: 2Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 12:15:18 +0100From: enrike <altern2@gmail.com>Cc: Pd-List <pd-list@lists.iem.at>Subject: Re: [PD] PdDroidParty: playing sound files?Message-ID: <1bacc4f2-ac0b-45d1-dc09-9b0a0c5cab60@gmail.com>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowedok, thanks. I will try and see if I can get it to work (I did not want to go into it to later discover it was impossible for some technical reason)