Release 8.0.1

Fix: Not loading uninstalled apps

Release 8.0.0

NEW BACKUP STRUCTURE: Older backups (v6-v7) are experimentaly supported. It's nevertheless prefered to use a new backups directory for a cleaner experience.
NEW FILTER FORMAT: Requires reseting sort/filter manually

• Add: Backend's lazy loading (half-baked)
• Add: Loading toasts for refresh.
• Update: Migrate fragments & sheets to Compose and update UI
• Add: Fake developer settings (@hg42, mostly for debugging/testing reasons)
• Add: Generic support for older backups(v6-v7) (@hg42)
• Fix: Freezing more essential packages (@hg42)
• Add: Backup & restore permissions
• Fix: (Not) restoring package to both/all profiles
• Fix: Reseting search box on work finished
• Fix: Handling backups with dot-dot-dirs (@hg42)
• Add: Auto update list on external install/uninstall
• Add: Option to disable compression (@hg42)
• Update: Refactor batch actions (@hgx42)
• Update: Many UX improvements for search, scrolling & AppSheet
• Removed: Tags & Notes disabled for now
• Update: Compile & targetSDK 32
• Update: Java 11
• Add: Special backups to schedules
• Fix: Using toybox on SDK26 (@hg42)
• Add: Call log special backup (@dl200010)
• Fix: SMS/MMS special backup (@dl200010)
• Update: Improve error reporting (@hg42)
• Fix: More strict hard links (@hg42)
• Update: Complete rework of the running notification. (@hgx42)
• Update: All non-senstive preferences converted to non-encrypted (@hgx42)
• Update: Improve the app restart on theme/language change
• Fix: Messed up scheduling after rebooting device
• Add: Simple switch where to place the Wifi config file (@pizze)
• Add: Made the compression level configurable (In can greatly reduce the backup time, @pizze)
• Add: Retry mechanism to detect when PackageManager is not ready after installing an APK (@pizze)
• Fix: Schedules filter
• Fix: Welcome fragment scrolling view
• Update: Place state text under actions in AppSheet
• Update: Separate excluded dirs and cache (@hg42)
• Update Translations

Release 7.0.0

BACKUPS HAS NEW VARIABLE: making new backups incompatible with old versions of OABX
SCHEDULES REVAMPED: schedules will be deleted on update and old exports aren't usable

UI

• Add: Theming engine
• Add: Transition animations
• Add: Elevation/shadows to UI (viewable in light theme)
• Add: PrimaryDark color to system's navigation bar
• Update: Revamp UI (Material design 3 & new icons set)
• Update: Replace the snackbar with a simple text on top of activity and appsheet
• Fix: Crashing on changing theme
• Fix: Sort/Filter and Blocklist buttons colliding with lower dpi

Function

• Add: Media files backup
• Add: Randomized IV for the Cipher
• Update: TargetSDK 30
• Update: Exclude cache size from data size
• Fix: Postpone chmod to do it after restore (@hg42)
• Fix: Special characters in ls output and quoting(@hg42x)
• Fix: Sorting by data size
• Fix: Improved exception handling with TarUtils (@hg42)
• Fix: Firefox restore (@hg42)
• Fix: Including uninstalled apps in scheduled backups

Usability/UX

• Add: Extras [Note and Tags]
• Add: Blocklist shortcut to all navigation fragments
• Add: Animated placeholders while loading apps' list
• Add: Schedule special filter for old apps
• Add: Disabled apps filter
• Add: Backup all updated apps button
• Add: Support for countries' specific locales
• Add languages: Chinese(traditional/Taiwan), Portuguese(Brazil), Lithuanian.
• Update translations: Chinese(simplified), Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Russian, Arabic, German, French, Polish, Norwegian, Italian, Swedish.
• Update: Automate locals generation
• Update: Revamp app's navigation (Activities and Fragments)
• Update: Revamp filters and modes
• Update: Improve readability of app's info in app sheet
• Update: More informative error messages
• Update: Grey out encryption password preferences instead of hiding it
• Remove: Main special filter split
• Remove: Info shortcut from Main fragments
• Fix: Hide Navigation Bar while in tools

Release 6.0.1

• Fixed: Exclude system apps checkbox in the schedule sheet
• Fixed: Import the val of exclude system apps on schedules' import
• Added: Vietnamese, Hindi & Ukranian
• Updated translations:Arabic, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Catalan, Turkish, Indonesian

Release 6.0.0

• Added: Encrypt private preferences including encryption password (using Android keystore)
• Added: Export/import of schedules
• Added: Global blocklist applies to Main
• Added: Ascending/descending sort support
• Added: Warning text to backup directory picker
• Added: Direct share button for logs
• Added: Better error handling
• Updated: Make backup dialog checks response to the service's active options
• Updated: Use modes' checkboxes in the backup/restore/schedule dialogs
• Updated: Schedule action on first day if possible
• Updated: Replace Blacklist with Blocklist
• Fixed: Don't schedule when disabled
• Fixed: Crash when scheduled list of apps is empty
• Fixed: Schedules not firing on time
• Fixed: Delayed notifications of some restored apps (exclude the push notifications' ID from backups)
• Fixed: Backup instance folder left untouched after backup failing
• Fixed: Hiding device lock option when there's no lock
• Added: Catalan language
• Updated translation: Arabic, Spanish, Indonesian, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Dutch, French

(Anniversary) Release 5.1.0

It's been a wild year introducing us to some new challenges but also building a nice community around a new project.

Thanks for everyone that took (and still takes) part of the project at any point.

Special thanks goes to @tsiflimagas, @Tiefkuehlpizze, @hg42 and @jensstein.

• Added: Tool to save apps' list to a file
• Added: Option to use device credentials as lock
• Added: Names to schedules
• Added: Force kill and launch to App Sheet
• Added: Updated apps bar
• Added: Snackbar on single Backup/Restore actions
• Added: Warning text to enable special backups preference
• Updated: UI/UX revamp (in co-op with @opepp)
• Updated: STOP-CONT default is on
• Fixed: Scheduling backups
• Fixed: Log items sdk release name
• Fixed: Crash on batch actions with nothing checked
• Updated Translations: Norwegian, German, Chinese, Spanish, Polish, Indonesian, Malayalam, French, Turkish, Arabic
• A ton of other small fixes

Release 5.0.2

• Fixed: Message disply on error (@hg42)
• Fixed: Quote issue in backup process (@hg42)

Release 5.0.1

• Updated: Improving shell commands function (@hg42)
• Fixed: Missing files for some special backups (@hg42)
• Fixed: Throwing exception on sockets and other special files (@hg42)
• Fixed: Failed backups with files with names with double spaces (@Jakeler)
• Fixed: STOP-CONT log messages (@hg42)
• Fixed: Correct SELinux context (@Jakeler & @hg42)
• Updated: Gradle & Dependencies
• Updated translations: Polish, Portuguese, Chinese, Greek, German, French, Norwegian, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian
• Clean up

Release 5.0.0

NEW MAJOR VERSION: incompatible with the old releases.
MIGRATED TO KOTLIN
SCHEDULED ACTIONS CAN ONLY LAST 10 MINUTES (SYSTEM CONSTRAINT): so partition your group of apps.

• Added: Individual modes for apps in batch action dialog
• Updated: Choosing a backup directory doesn't create a child folder anymore
• Updated: Far less unneeded refreshing
• Fixed: APK/data not found error
• Fixed: Persistent storage permission
• Fixed: A11 support
• Far too many other improvements, fixes and cleanups (in the full changelog)

Release 4.0.0

• Added: Allow parallel batch tasks
• Added: Disable verification of apps over USB before installing and re-enable it afterwards
• Added: APK & Data checkboxes in Batch
• Added: Storage Access Framework support (Credits @Tiefkuehlpizze)
• Added: Symlink/Pipe Support (Credits @hg42 and @Tiefkuehlpizze)
• Added: Multi Backup support (Credits @Tiefkuehlpizze)
• Added: HelpSheet to deliver help easily
• Added: More clear messages informing user about running processes
• Added: Arabic, Bosnian and Malayalam
• Updated: Tags system
• Updated: Use STOP/CONT to make sure no background processes ruin the backup (Credits @hg42 & @Tiefkuehlpizze)
• Updated: Restructure Schedules
• Updated: Backups directory is /OABackupX now
• Updated: Backup Structure (Credits @Tiefkuehlpizze)
• Updated: Whole new layouts for UI elements
• Updated: Encryption warning leads directly to its preferences
• Updated: Translations
• Fixed: Log viewer
• Fixed: Create Log when errors occur on backups
• Removed: Annimon stream dependency
• Too many other improvements, fixes and cleanups