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SamAmco / track-and-graph

An android app for tracking personal data and creating custom graphs
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Add seedvault backup integration #119

Closed ghost closed 2 years ago

ghost commented 3 years ago

Hi, not sure how complicated this is, but it seems that the app does not allow to be part of the automated backup system that seedvault offers (which is the native way google does it, if I understand correctly), it would be nice to have such an option since it works great (I just tested the backup thingy to make sure it works and it went fine, using linegeos 18.1). I'm stilly making weekly backups for track & graph for this reason, since there is not automated way to do it. Thanks for the app and your time!

ghost commented 3 years ago

According to some posts (https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/kuzf9f/force_seedvault_to_backup_apps_which_refuse_to_be/) it's because the APK has somes flags that disable the backup and seedvaults respects that, not sure if that's the case in this app.

SamAmco commented 3 years ago

Interesting, thanks for letting me know. Yes you are right i have disabled allowBackup. The simple reason for this is that in order to support this backup/restore feature you need to implement a BackupAgent that knows how to backup and restore the data. This shouldn't be too hard, but I never got around to it before. I will consider this for a future release but i can't say how long it will take me to get it done.

gadgetguy08 commented 3 years ago

I have the same request. I found this info from SeedVault:

So if your favorite app is not included in backups, you can contact the app's developers and make them aware of this option. For example, this (https://github.com/grote/Transportr/commit/4dc38f429f75909a088d8bd8a5b3b5ddd8030f71) is how the Transportr app enabled only encrypted backups. This is a github link for /grote/Transportr/commit/.....

SamAmco commented 2 years ago

Hi all. This should be fixed in the next release (currently rc-v2.1.0 available for beta testers on play store only atm). I just set auto backup to true in the end, no need to exclude anything really. Sorry for the wait.