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A backup application for the Android Open Source Project.
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Show system apps in Backup status #624

Open chirayudesai opened 4 months ago

chirayudesai commented 4 months ago

At the moment, we don't show them at all.

We can't show all system apps since there's too many, and a lot of them don't even make sense to show (overlays, etc)

For a start, having just system apps with icons shown as a separate list at the bottom could work.

chirayudesai commented 4 months ago

Test: Especially after D2D, Chromium and friends / forks are able to get backed up and restored.

grote commented 3 months ago

When you say with icons, do you mean show/count all system apps with launcher icons?

chirayudesai commented 3 months ago

system apps with launcher icons?

Yes

The idea being those are the apps easily visible

grote commented 3 months ago

Any idea how to identify those? Do we need to query all intent activities and then cache the list of packages with a launcher activity or given we have PackageInfo already, is there a way to find out if the package has a launcher activity?

chirayudesai commented 3 months ago

Any idea how to identify those?

android.intent.category.LAUNCHER would be my first pick.

I was thinking of the Firewall at first but that simply lists all system apps, which would lead to a long pointless list here.

Maybe another way is all system apps which have some data to back up, if that's easier. That then easily excludes a good chunk.

dot166 commented 3 months ago

Any idea how to identify those?

android.intent.category.LAUNCHER would be my first pick.

I was thinking of the Firewall at first but that simply lists all system apps, which would lead to a long pointless list here.

Maybe another way is all system apps which have some data to back up, if that's easier. That then easily excludes a good chunk.

What about Launcher3? It (obviously) does not have an intent that has the android.intent.category.LAUNCHER catagory because it is the launcher. Also there is data that can be backed up from it (layout, wallpaper, icon pack (if applicable), etc).