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Uploading a debug bundle hands the user an upload key and nothing else. Users who want to see what the bundle holds before sharing it, or who will not upload from a beta build, have no way to get at the file.

Adds a second action to the Troubleshoot screen that writes the bundle wherever the user picks, through the system file picker. The anonymization switch applies to it exactly as it does to the uploaded bundle.

The engine generates the zip into the app cache before the picker opens. The picker stops the activity, which unbinds the VPN service, so generating afterwards failed with VPN service not connected — the result callback now only copies a finished file, which needs no binder. A spinner covers both the generation and the copy, and the picked document is deleted on failure so no empty file is left behind. Both bundle buttons are disabled while either action runs, since they share one generator.

Depends on netbirdio/netbird#7528, which adds the DebugBundleFile bridge call, the stale bundle cleanup, and the sync response persistence that makes network_map.json appear in Android bundles at all.

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  • New Features

    • Added an option in Troubleshooting to save a diagnostic debug bundle directly to a file.
    • Opens the system file picker and shows progress while the bundle is prepared.
    • Displays success or failure feedback after saving.
    • Added localized text for the new workflow across supported languages.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved debug bundle handling to prevent occasional failures when the VPN service disconnects during generation.

Uploading the debug bundle hands the user a key and nothing else. Users
who want to see what the bundle contains before sharing it, or who will
not upload from a beta build, have no way to get at it.

Add a second action to the Troubleshoot screen that opens the system
file picker and writes the bundle where the user chooses. The engine
generates the zip into the app cache through the new DebugBundleFile
bridge call; the fragment copies it into the picked document and
removes the temporary file. On failure the picked document is deleted
so no empty file is left behind. Both bundle buttons are disabled while
either runs, since they share one generator.

The anonymization switch applies to the saved bundle exactly as it does
to the uploaded one.

Bump the netbird submodule to the commit that adds DebugBundleFile and
the stale bundle cleanup. Until that change lands on netbird main the
pointer references the branch commit; it has to move to the merged
commit before this is merged.
The picker stops the activity, which unbinds the VPN service, so calling
the engine from the result callback failed with "VPN service not connected".
Generating the zip first leaves the callback with plain file IO, which needs
no binder. A spinner covers both the generation and the copy.
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The change adds debug bundle file generation through the VPN service and a troubleshoot-screen flow that saves the generated ZIP through the system document picker. It adds temporary-file cleanup, state restoration, progress handling, UI resources, and localized messages.

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Debug bundle export

Layer / File(s) Summary
Service debug bundle API
app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ServiceAccessor.java, app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/MainActivity.java, tool/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/..., netbird
The service API generates a debug bundle in the app cache and returns its ZIP path. The engine resolves active platform files and delegates generation to goClient.
Troubleshoot save flow
app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/troubleshoot/TroubleshootFragment.java
The fragment generates the bundle in a background thread, opens a ZIP document picker, copies the bundle to the selected URI, restores pending state after recreation, and removes temporary files.
Troubleshoot UI and localization
app/src/main/res/layout/fragment_troubleshoot.xml, app/src/main/res/values*/strings.xml
The troubleshoot screen adds a save-to-file button and progress indicator. Default and localized resources add save, success, and failure messages.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant TroubleshootFragment
  participant VPNService
  participant DocumentProvider
  User->>TroubleshootFragment: Select save debug bundle
  TroubleshootFragment->>VPNService: Generate cached ZIP
  VPNService-->>TroubleshootFragment: Return ZIP path
  TroubleshootFragment->>DocumentProvider: Open CreateDocument picker
  DocumentProvider-->>TroubleshootFragment: Return target URI
  TroubleshootFragment->>DocumentProvider: Copy ZIP to target URI
  TroubleshootFragment-->>User: Show save result
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 23e07

This change adds a debug-bundle-to-file export flow with a system file picker, temporary file cleanup, and progress UI. The reviewed code paths for generation, saving, and cleanup appear sound, and the one edge case investigated turned out to be unreachable given Android's activity-result delivery guarantees. No merge-blocking issues were identified from the available evidence.

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- Line 627: Update the troubleshoot delegation around debugBundleFile to capture
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197-235: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

When the document-picker result arrives after the fragment is detached, this callback clears pendingBundle and returns without deleting the generated source ZIP. Delete source before returning in the activity == null branch so abandoned exports do not leave debug bundles in the app cache.

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around lines 197 - 235, Update the activity-null branch in saveDebugBundleTo so
it deletes the captured source bundle with deleteQuietly(source) before
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Design is oK. nothing critical.. only two smaller issues.
Apart for this, I don't know if it's possible/worth to test something of it..
As you address the two comments I can stamp

}
Activity activity = getActivity();
if (activity == null) {
return;

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We create the file before to saveDebugBundleTo

registerForActivityResult(
            new ActivityResultContracts.CreateDocument("application/zip"), this::saveDebugBundleTo)

so if we return here in line 220 the file is already created.


private static void copyAndDelete(File source, ContentResolver resolver, Uri target) throws IOException {
try (InputStream in = new FileInputStream(source);
OutputStream out = resolver.openOutputStream(target, "w")) {

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I'd use "wt" for safety, to ensure we truncate and don't have trail bytes from previous bundle pollute/corrupt.

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