I m new to Android Dev. I have built an app(yet not released on play store) and thinking to add new features to it. But i m not confident enough and I think I might make mistakes and my app might get worse. How to I create a local backup of my android app? Should I just copy the files in which I set my projects to another location or there is another method?

CodePudding user response：

There's an Export to Zip File option in the File menu in Android Studio, or you could just make a copy of your project folder - but I'd strongly recommend learning to use version control.

A bunch of different version control systems are integrated into Android Studio, Git is the most common one people use and once you know the basics, it's as simple as creating a snapshot of the current state of your project and building a history through those. You can go back to an older version at any time, or compare changes, whatever you like! You can do much more complex things, but it can be as easy as doing Ctrl K every time you finish something important

(You should be backing up your projects anyway - you don't want to lose everything if you get a hard drive failure or something, right? Zip up that project directory regularly and store it somewhere - if you're using Git, you can zip the .git folder, that's your repository that contains all the versions of your project)