Feature Request: Change Backup location

[mitgitumgekippt]

Hi,
first: thanks for developing and maintaining the app. I have used it now for some months and I am really happy with it!

But I miss to change the backup location:
I have one backup folder, which is connected to my cloud. Every app (which allows me to do it) back-ups into this specific folder. It was helpful in the past, as the last two phones of mine got irreparably broken.

Hope you have some time to implement this feature. I would do it myself, but I couldn't get my head around flutter so far. Keep up the good work!

[emavgl]

Hi. Thanks for raising the issue. It is indeed a good point.

Unfortunately I think that, without adding additional permission for reading external data, those default folders are the only one I could use for storing the backup.

That's why I don't give the possibility to charge the location. But I will leave the issue open in case someone knows differently and to invest some more time investigating on this.

Out of curiosity, could your app sync multiple folders?

[mitgitumgekippt]

Now yes, since I started to use syncthing recently. The solution before that was nextcloud , which unfortunately did not support it (to my knowledge).

What would be the issue with the additional permission? I thought Android only ask for it, when you start using it (e.g. it only asks for that when you try to change the saving location)

[emavgl]

Yes,

at the moment I am using this API https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Environment#getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(java.lang.String)

which requires no extra permission.

If I want to allow the user to access all the folders, I would need to use. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Environment#getExternalStorageDirectory()

which requires an extra permission in the manifest of the apk. An I am not sure if I need to change something when doing the app submission for Google Play. But I guess it would be also a viable option.