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Syncthing Android app discontinued (forum.syncthing.net)

submitted 10 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours 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 :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 minutes ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

What is this alternative of which you speak?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 39 minutes ago

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 @[email protected] 's comments are making a lot more sense.

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours 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