Swift Backup Updates

v4.0.0_Alpha1 Faster app backup & restore - New backup format with faster compression and encryption of your app backups should cut down your backup & restore time by at least 20%-40% on most devices. - Important: Backups taken with v4.x cannot be restored with previous versions of Swift Backup. Backups taken with previous versions are of course supported. Sign-in without an account with limited features - Users can now choose to sign-in anonymously, offline, without a Google account. This feature is added for users who only want to use Swift Backup for local backups without any premium features. Cloud backups or premium features cannot be used without Google sign-in. - Swift Backup settings, lists of Favorite apps, Blacklisted apps are saved locally for anonymous users in 'SwiftBackup' folder and will be restored from here during sign-in. - Note that backups taken with anonymous sign-in are encrypted with common encryption keys as opposed to users with Google sign-in where encryption keys are unique for each user. Also, backups taken with anonymous sign-in cannot be used with accounts with Google sign-in and vice-versa. Other changes - Apps: Much faster loading of apps list - Apps: Improved checks for app data changes - Swift Backup APKs are now saved in 'SwiftBackup' folder - Other minor UX improvements and fixes

v4.0.0_Alpha1: Changelog in the next message

Note: Swift Backup versions below v3.8.x are no longer supported and will not work properly anymore. If you are still using an old version of the app, install and start using the current version v3.8.1 at the earliest.

Google Play release v3.8.1 - Apps: Fixed character encoding in html file generated with 'Export apps list' action - Apps: Fixed an issue where labels were not showing up for some apps after signing in - Cloud: Chunked upload support for Nextcloud/ownCloud servers - Cloud: Increased timeout to avoid some errors with Nextcloud/ownCloud servers - Fixed a root service issue on LG devices with Android 9 and below - Fixed an issue where app wasn't using Dynamic system colors on some devices with Android 12 - Other fixes

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Google Play release v3.8.0 Material You theme & New icon - New Material You theme with many UI elements updated to the new design. - On Android 12, Swift Backup will use 'Dynamic colors' obtained from the system. You can disable this feature using the toggle in Settings to make Swift Backup use its own theme colors instead of the system colors. Note for OneDrive users OneDrive official SDK now requires minimum Android 8. As a result, you can't use OneDrive below Android 8 with Swift Backup. Other changes - Apps: New 'Export apps list' action (Apps > Batch actions) to save the apps list as html with the apps' link to Play Store. - Cloud: Dropbox has finally updated their app and fixed the authentication issues for apps targeting Android 11+. If you have Dropbox app installed, we're back to using it for authentication. - Cloud: Fixed an issue where Dropbox oauth tokens were not getting refreshed after expiry - Cloud: Fixed a crash with SFTP service when deleting a remote directory - Cloud: Fixed an issue where SMB service wasn't using SMB 3x even when server supported it - Removed Firebase Analytics - Other minor UI fixes and optimizations related to file operations

Google Play release v3.8.0: Changelog in the next message

v3.8.0_Beta1 - Cloud: OneDrive official SDK now requires minimum Android 8. As a result, you can't use OneDrive below Android 8 with Swift Backup. - Cloud: Fixed an issue where Dropbox tokens were not getting refreshed after expiry - Cloud: Fixed an issue where SFTP service sometimes crashed when deleting a remote directory - Added back amoled black theme that was removed from the previous test release - Other minor fixes Unless there are any major bug reports, this will most likely be the last beta of v3.8.0.

v3.8.0_Alpha1 Material You theme & New icon - With Material You theme many UI elements have been updated to the new design. - On Android 12, Swift Backup will now use dynamic colors obtained from the system. You can disable 'Dynamic colors' using the toggle available in Settings to make Swift Backup use its own theme colors instead of the system colors. - 'Amoled black theme' is now removed as it just made theming more complex and harder to update and test UI. Other changes - Apps: New 'Export apps list' action (Apps > Batch actions) to save the apps list as html with the apps' link to Play Store. - Apps: Improved logging and detection of corrupt backup files and wrong encryption password errors. - Apps: Improved abbreviated searching - Cloud: Dropbox has finally updated their app and fixed the authentication issues. We're back to using the Dropbox app (if installed) for authentication. - Cloud: Fixed an issue where SMB service wasn't using SMB 3x even when server supported it - Removed Firebase Analytics as an experiment for the current build. It will be assessed if crash reports are helpful without analytics. - Other minor UI fixes and optimizations related to file operations

Google Play release v3.7.2 - Apps: Added support for backup/restore of Magisk's DenyList state of an app - Simplified some root based file operations - Cloud: Swift Backup will now enforce browser based authentication for Dropbox (rather than using the installed Dropbox app) since Dropbox hasn't fixed authentication issues on Android 11+ for more than a year now. - Cloud: Changed user agent for WebDAV http requests. This should fix an issue where some WebDAV administrative tools block requests with okhttp's default user agent. - Fixed an issue where the app crashed when cleaning its cache directory - Other minor UI fixes