Automatic backup happens on every reboot - change it to be programmable

[mirk0dex]

Greetings,
I recently enabled automatic backups and noticed how they happen on reboot. While this is ok because it's common to reboot your phone everyday, it's a pretty unique behaviour I haven't seen in other apps, and it's pretty annoying to have that notification pop up every time I reboot my device. I know it can be disabled, but still, the thing happens, and it's one of the million other things that happen on reboot.

I propose, instead, that a scheduled backup be used, with the possibility to change the backup time in the settings, and its frequency (weekly, biweekly, daily, etc.)

This behaviour is much more widespread in other F/LOSS apps such as Signal. Also it would give the user more power over Flexify's backups. Note: it may need the permission to use Android's alarm systems.

Thanks for your time and for the Flexify app.

Best regards,
Mirko.

[brandonp2412]

Hmm perhaps someone more experienced in Android development could answer this, but the scheduling I've set up shouldn't behave this way, but maybe there's something i'm missing in the Kotlin code.

https://github.com/brandonp2412/Flexify/blob/main/android/app/src/main/kotlin/com/presley/flexify/utils.kt

fun scheduleBackups(context: Context) {
    val backupIntent = Intent(context, BackupReceiver::class.java).apply {
        setPackage(context.packageName)
    }

    val pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(
        context, 0, backupIntent,
        PendingIntent.FLAG_IMMUTABLE
    )

    val calendar: Calendar = Calendar.getInstance().apply {
        set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 2)
        set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0)
        set(Calendar.SECOND, 0)
        if (timeInMillis < System.currentTimeMillis()) {
            add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, 1)
            pendingIntent.send()
        }
    }

    val alarmManager = context.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE) as AlarmManager
    alarmManager.setInexactRepeating(
        AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP,
        calendar.timeInMillis,
        AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY,
        pendingIntent
    )
}

https://github.com/brandonp2412/Flexify/blob/main/android/app/src/main/kotlin/com/presley/flexify/MainActivity.kt

class MainActivity : FlutterActivity() {
...
    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        WindowCompat.setDecorFitsSystemWindows(window, false)
        val controller = WindowInsetsControllerCompat(window, window.decorView)
        controller.isAppearanceLightStatusBars = false // Set to true if your app's theme is light
        controller.isAppearanceLightNavigationBars = false // Set to true if your app's theme is light
        window.statusBarColor = android.graphics.Color.TRANSPARENT
        window.navigationBarColor = android.graphics.Color.TRANSPARENT

        val (automaticBackups, backupPath) = getSettings(context)
        if (!automaticBackups) return
        if (backupPath != null) {
            scheduleBackups(context)
        }
    }

[mirk0dex]

Uh well, I have no experience with Kotlin 😅 I've only ever made Java Android apps, but I'll try to look at it anyways