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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[–] 31 points 2 years ago (7 children)

What is this alternative of which you speak?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 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?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • 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.

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