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Syncthing Android app discontinued (forum.syncthing.net)
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Announcement by the creator: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002

Unfortunately I don’t have good news on the state of the android app: I am retiring it. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing version.

Reason is a combination of Google making Play publishing something between hard and impossible and no active maintenance. The app saw no significant development for a long time and without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance an app requires even without doing much, if any, changes.

Thanks a lot to everyone who ever contributed to this app!

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[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 193 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Oh my goodness! Syncthing without Android leaves me screwed. My whole digital life revolves around it.

[–] imsodin@infosec.pub 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh don't worry to much, mine too: If there wasn't an alternative for syncthing on android, I might have kept it on lifesupport :)

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What is this alternative of which you speak?

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Syncthing-fork. Both show if you search for Syncthing in fdroid. Since imsodin seems to be OP Dev maintainer for Syncthing, i think he is referring to the fork.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ooh.

Thanks.

I've been running the fork for a long time but somehow figured it was a soft-fork and maybe not really viable without upstream development from syncthing.

Now @imsodin@infosec.pub 's comments are making a lot more sense.

This whole thing is more or less a non-issue then?

[–] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

not quite
Screenshot of Syncthing-fork's github readme that says "About Play Store releases: Planning to close my Google Play Developer Account. Please say hi if you are interested in obtaining the latest gplay release files from me to help in publishing this app."

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

But that is the original Syncthing app @fine_sandy_bottom was talking about the fork that is available in F-Droid

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Only one I can think of is Resilio, but it's hard on RAM and battery for large folders.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 6 points 2 months ago

It's been forever since I looked at resilio so this may be an unfair appraisal but... I seem to remember it's one of those OSS projects that feels a lot more like free tier commercial software. Do you think that's the case or nah?

Honestly just a dumb rsync client would be enough for me.

[–] bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

And I don‘t know what‘s going on with them. There weren’t any updates for years, now there is a design overhaul, no new features and suddenly they want me to register. Duck

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's the history behind this? Why could the changes be done upstream, necessitating a fork?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like the original maintainer is tired of maintaining it, and the amount of community support wasn't enough to justify continuing to put in the effort. And then Google's packaging process pushed it over the edge, hence retiring the project.

The fork is just another person deciding to take up maintenance of the project.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I know that part.

The other fork has existed for a long while.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

FolderSync is a good alternative, more battery friendly too!