Explaining Android's video: Neo Backup is a Free and Open Source App for Scheduling and Encrypting App Data Back Ups

Neo Backup is a FOSS application for Android that requires root access and can back up your apps, games, and data. ~~~~~ Hi! Don't forget to like the video, subscribe to the channel, and hit the "Thanks" button on this video, if you can, and join our channel community here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnowc_KHgjVNj3Y-E-oQ8aw/join Video Description ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ With custom recoveries like TWRP being used less and less these days, people still need a way to backup their important data on Android. This is where Neo Backup comes into play. Neo Backup is a free and open source application for Android that requires root access and can back up your individual applications along with the app data. You can do these backups one at a time, or batch them up for ease of use. And these backups can be scheduled so you'll always have the latest data if something goes wrong. We can download Neo Backup from an app respository like F-Droid. . .or it can be downloaded directly from GitHub. I'll be sure to include links to both of these sources in the video description below. Once installed, let's go ahead and launch the application so that we can grant it root access. But along with granting root access, Neo Backup also needs you complete the setup process before you can begin. I appreciate the application going through these permissions with you, since it has root and doesn't technically need to do this. Since going through this is a great way to convey to the user the type of access it has to your device. Here on the home page we'll be given a list of all the user apps and system applications that we have on our device. All of these can be backed up if you'd like. But we can also go through the filter section to only show user apps that we installed. Tapping on an application or game we have here will take us to the details page where we can do things like add the app to the global blocklist, force kill the application, launch it, disable it, uninstall it, or check the exodus report for it. These buttons used to have a text description alongside of the icon itself. Which helped you to know what each of them did. But after a bit of time, and some trial and error, you start to understand what they mean without needing the text next to the icon. Still, I think this should be something that could be toggled in the settings as it can be daunting for first time users who are wanting to learn the app. We can also add tags, add a note about the app, and create our first backup of it. Neo Backup recommends that you encrypt your backups so the data is protected. We can do this by going into the Settings area and enabling the feature from here. This requires us to set a password to encrypt the data as well as allows us to decrypt it when we want to perform a restore. I've come to appreciate the scheduling feature that this Android application offers. Having to manually go in and create new backups of your apps and games can be annoying so letting the application do that for you is great. I would like to see the app get features that allow us to control where we want the backup to be stored to. As of right now, this data is only saved to the folder we setup on the internal storage of our device. But having this take up our storage is a bit much. Maybe in the future we can see an option to save these backups to an FTP server on our local network. . .or upload them automatically to a cloud storage provider like Google Drive or Dropbox. For now, we need to use a sync solution like Syncthing or Nextcloud in order to move this data from our device automatically So if you have root access to your Android smartphone or tablet, Neo Backup is a nice free and open source application that an backup your APK file and app/game data. People complain all the time about Android not having a proper backup solution but thankfully we have apps like this that can do the job. We only need root access in order for these apps to have the ability to backup that data. Mentioned Links ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Neo Backup on GitHub - https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Backup Neo Backup on F-Droid - https://f-droid.org/packages/com.machiav3lli.backup/ Step by Step Tutorial ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Intro [00:00] 2. Download Neo Backup [00:46] 3. Setup Neo Backup [01:26] 4. Backing up a Single App [03:34] 5. Backing up a Batch of Apps [05:50] 6. Restoring an App Backup [08:29] 7. Schedule Backups [09:16] 8. Conclusion [11:05] As an Amazon associate, I may earn a commission on sales from the links below. The Gear I Use ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5W "Slow" Charger - https://amzn.to/2OaUMV8 Fast Charger - https://amzn.to/3rtBsC6 MicroUSB Cable - https://amzn.to/38dkpeM USB-C Cable - https://amzn.to/2OqlTvi TPU Cases - https://amzn.to/38g9b9w USB-C to 3.5mm Dongle - https://amzn.to/3rVt7c3 USB-C to 3.5mm DAC - https://amzn.to/3CyksSJ NVIDIA Shield TV - https://bit.ly/3KA17RV