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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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[-] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 16 points 2 years 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 @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 years ago

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 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

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