Show system apps in Backup status

[chirayudesai]

At the moment, we don't show them at all.

We can't show all system apps since there's too many, and a lot of them don't even make sense to show (overlays, etc)

For a start, having just system apps with icons shown as a separate list at the bottom could work.

[chirayudesai]

Test: Especially after D2D, Chromium and friends / forks are able to get backed up and restored.

[grote]

When you say with icons, do you mean show/count all system apps with launcher icons?

[chirayudesai]

system apps with launcher icons?

Yes

The idea being those are the apps easily visible

[grote]

Any idea how to identify those? Do we need to query all intent activities and then cache the list of packages with a launcher activity or given we have PackageInfo already, is there a way to find out if the package has a launcher activity?

[chirayudesai]

Any idea how to identify those?

android.intent.category.LAUNCHER would be my first pick.

I was thinking of the Firewall at first but that simply lists all system apps, which would lead to a long pointless list here.

Maybe another way is all system apps which have some data to back up, if that's easier. That then easily excludes a good chunk.

[dot166]

Any idea how to identify those?

android.intent.category.LAUNCHER would be my first pick.

I was thinking of the Firewall at first but that simply lists all system apps, which would lead to a long pointless list here.

Maybe another way is all system apps which have some data to back up, if that's easier. That then easily excludes a good chunk.

What about Launcher3? It (obviously) does not have an intent that has the android.intent.category.LAUNCHER catagory because it is the launcher. Also there is data that can be backed up from it (layout, wallpaper, icon pack (if applicable), etc).

[grote]

since #670, we now show (launchable) system apps in backup status as requested.