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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 195 points 2 years ago

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

[-] imsodin@infosec.pub 52 points 2 years ago

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 31 points 2 years ago

What is this alternative of which you speak?

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

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 years 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.

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

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 years ago

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 years ago

I know that part.

The other fork has existed for a long while.

[-] sunbunman@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Mine too!

[-] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

FolderSync is a good alternative, more battery friendly too!

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