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Is there an application or method with like ADB or something that can easily make backups of my apps to transfer to another phone? i dont care about configs or having to login again, but reinstalling everything is a major bother.

Bonus points if it applies my home screen and QS-Tile Layouts. But thats just a nice to have.

Old Phone: Google Pixel 6a (Lineage OS, Magisk root)

New Phone: Google Pixel 8 Pro (Lineage OS, Magisk root)

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[–] vvv@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

I've used

adb shell pm list packages

to get a list of installed packages and https://github.com/mvdan/fdroidcl to install the ones available of fdroid.

That said, look into Obtanium, too.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Not really the answer to your question, but maybe my recent experience will help.

A lot of apps can export settings. Having recently joined the alternative android club, that was a definitely a time saver. On my last phone transfer I spent a few day when I had time reconfiguring every app, this time around all my main apps were pretty much fully setup in an hour.

For an "app list", I just took a screen shot of my home screen layout and app drawer. Had everything downloading in about 10 minutes. Home screen took a bit to put back together. If you can export the launcher config, maybe restoring it after you've downloaded everything will restore home screen layout too...no clue, I never tried that one.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It's not open source, but Swift Backup can backup your app data with adb access via shizuku to a folder on your device that you can copy to another device

[–] catsup@lemmy.one 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

*Not all of the app data, only the app data in the internal user-accessible storage. The data in the /data partition will not be backed up. Most app settings are stored in /data.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

If you have root it can back up the /data too, but not many phones support root access these days.