I’ve switched devices a couple of times. I use roughly the same bunch of packages on every device. I’ve tried to locate any option or file that contain my installed apps.
I found a SQlite file which contain them but it was deep inside the data folder for F-Droid in the root directory. Poked around in more user-accessible places, SD cards and whatnot but I didn’t find anything.
Is there any way to get a list of the installed packages, feed it into the F-Droid app on my new device and reinstall my previous installs? I guess just backing them up and push them to my new device could be an option but that can cause problems if there’s any compatibility issues. And then of course you can do it all manually.
Either there might not be such an option or I’m missing something obvious. I’ve noted that there’s a log option but I’m not entirely sure if this is something you can import, whether it applies to apps installed after I enabled it and where the log is placed.
Reminds me of the ancient My App List | F-Droid. A 2014 relic that still worked wonderfully on Android 11.
Used it to reinstall a bunch of apps when I had moved from stock to custom. Works with / will use any store available. Not as seamless as importing a list into a store but definitely reduced reinstall time.
The ability to create, import, and export a text file which will contain a list of apps.
Users can easily modify this list within F-Droid client and can export the list into a file. This list can also easily be imported into F-Droid as well. A setting will be available to “Install apps from list” which will go into a menu were you can view all the apps on the list and choose which ones to install and which ones to ignore (not install) and then F-Droid will install all the apps on the list that are not installed on the device all at once.
This will make it easier to get all of your apps installed on a new phone instead of searching for each app and installing each app one by one.
