vaginessa / mass-apk-installer

Automate backup/restore on android phones

mass-apk-installer

Automate back up or restore of APK's, Android applications to your Android phone.

Table of contents:

0x0: Support Information
0x1: How to run the software
0x2: Use cases
0x3: Command Line Arguments

0x0: Support Information

Support for the software is provided through the dedicated XDA developers forum post here

0x1 How to run the software

You will need to have python 3 installed plus two python dependencies py3-progressbar and pycrypto. You can do that by opening a terminal and typing one of the following commands

pip install -r requirements.txt
pipenv install 

Also you can you download precompiled binaries for Windows, Linux, MacOS from here

0x2: Use cases

# back up to folder created automaticaly
$python3 mass-apk-installer.py backup

# back up to a zip file created automaticaly 
$python3 mass-apk-installer.py backup -a

# back up to encrypted zip file created automaticaly
$python3 mass-apk-installer.py backup -a -e

#restore from folder 
$python3 mass-apk-installer.py restore  2018-02-12_04-47-25

#restore from zip file
$python3 mass-apk-installer.py restore  2018-02-12_04-47-25.zip

#restore from encrypted zip file
$python3 mass-apk-installer.py restore 2018-02-12_04-47-25.aes

0x3: Command Line Arguments

backup  [-a] [-e] | make  back up
    -a, --archive | Create  zip archive after back up, used with -b flag
    -e, --encrypt | Encrypt  zip archive after backup used with -b -a flags
restore [path]    | restore back up to device, path can be a folder, zip file or encrypted archive