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Add support for Android's backup mechanism
See original GitHub issueImplement BackupAgent that uses the settings import/export code.
See https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/autobackup and the discussion in pull request #3846.
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Android has now option to enable backups, only if they are encrypted.
Info: https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault/wiki/FAQ
And mentioned example how it was enabled in the Tranportr app: grote/Transportr@4dc38f4
Please try to understand that it doesn’t matter what behavior would be acceptable to you. This is something that needs to work for everyone.
Saving (potentially unencrypted) passwords to a backup provider needs to be opt-in, not opt-out via disabling the system’s backup mechanism (that a lot of people probably don’t even know about).