One of the biggest complaints of Android users is the backup system of system applications. Unlike iOS, the little robot does not save your settings. So when you do a factory reset on your smarphone, exchange or even ROM device, you must configure everything manually. To Lollipop , Android was able to save only passwords for Wi-Fi networks, address book, pictures and some other limited form of files. Now with the Android M , all the application data will be saved in Google Drive. As well as game data, such as saving files, are stored in your account Play Games.
With the Android M, all settings made in their applications are automatically saved to your account from the Google Drive . The best part is that everything is encrypted so that no important information is captured in the process. For each app installed on your smartphone, Google will provide a 25MB of space on the drive to be backed up . This space will be an additional granted by Google. That is, if you have an account with 15GB in the service, will not be deducted from your total space to back up data from their applications.
The backup is done automatically every 24 hours, while your smartphone is connected to Wi-Fi network and not in use. If you log in to another device during initial configuration of the system will be asked if you want to download their applications and also the settings used for each. Of course, there’s a small detail. Each developer will have to opt in to use this feature or not in your application. Thus, Google recommends that traditional storage mode cache (done on the smartphone itself) is disabled to avoid conflict of redundant data.
It would be interesting if Google also allow to back up application data locally. It would be interesting especially for anyone who has a smartphone with microSD card slot. Thus, you would not need to access the cloud service to recover your data. It may take a long time if you count with hundreds of applications installed and is connected over a slow network. Anyway, this is already the beginning of a feature that was lacking right a long time on Android.
The next major version of the little robot is still in beta, but is expected to be released officially in end of the third quarter.
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