Moving installed apps and data over to a new Shield quesitons

I'm getting a new Shield Portable and wanted to know what is the best and easiest way to move all of my installed apps, emulators and such over to the new one? I was just going to copy the folders over to the new one but I'm sure there will be problems. Also I am not rooted.

I have apps installed on the device, but I've also had the OS move some of the installs over to the external SD card to save storage, so I was certain just copying them will cause issues with updates and stuff, but I don't know for sure.

Also I have emulators installed as well and then moved them over to the external SD card.

I know the roms will be ok as they're not installed and just sitting on the external SD card.

Is there an easy way to move all of this stuff over? Any apps that would help with this? Anything?

any help would be appreciated