From 2809630036fcb10a054f65570f40cbfcd71594d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vincent Koc <vincentkoc@ieee.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:01:28 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(android): disable app data backup (#73281)

---
 apps/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml            | 4 +---
 apps/android/app/src/main/res/xml/backup_rules.xml       | 4 ----
 .../app/src/main/res/xml/data_extraction_rules.xml       | 9 ---------
 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 16 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 apps/android/app/src/main/res/xml/backup_rules.xml
 delete mode 100644 apps/android/app/src/main/res/xml/data_extraction_rules.xml

diff --git a/apps/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml b/apps/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
index 6a9eed63d7c..6f9bd8d966a 100644
--- a/apps/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/apps/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -41,9 +41,7 @@
 
     <application
         android:name=".NodeApp"
-        android:allowBackup="true"
-        android:dataExtractionRules="@xml/data_extraction_rules"
-        android:fullBackupContent="@xml/backup_rules"
+        android:allowBackup="false"
         android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
         android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
         android:label="@string/app_name"
diff --git a/apps/android/app/src/main/res/xml/backup_rules.xml b/apps/android/app/src/main/res/xml/backup_rules.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 21e592ca47a..00000000000
--- a/apps/android/app/src/main/res/xml/backup_rules.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<full-backup-content>
-  <include domain="file" path="." />
-</full-backup-content>
diff --git a/apps/android/app/src/main/res/xml/data_extraction_rules.xml b/apps/android/app/src/main/res/xml/data_extraction_rules.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 46e58c54eb0..00000000000
--- a/apps/android/app/src/main/res/xml/data_extraction_rules.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<data-extraction-rules>
-  <cloud-backup>
-    <include domain="file" path="." />
-  </cloud-backup>
-  <device-transfer>
-    <include domain="file" path="." />
-  </device-transfer>
-</data-extraction-rules>