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Syncthing Android app discontinued (forum.syncthing.net)
submitted 2 months 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] 85 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I just installed syncthing-fork from f-droid and it worked flawlessly as far as I can tell:

  1. "Export" in syncthing
  2. Uninstall syncthing
  3. Install syncthing-fork from f-droid
  4. Import in syncthing-fork
[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I feel the existence of an "export" option in a piece of software is noble in this day and age, and I'm so appreciative of it.

It says "look, I don't WANT you to go to my competitor, but I'm not gonna try to hold your data hostage to prevent it."

It's class, as the Scottish would say.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Open source software doesn't have a reason to lock you in like proprietary software does :)

More and more proprietary SaaS systems are allowing data exports now, to comply with laws like the GDPR "right to know". Say what you want about Google and Facebook, but they were the first big companies to start allowing data to be exported before there was any law requiring it - Facebook in 2010 and Google in 2011.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I've said for a while that platforms that allow you to easily move make me more comfortable using them, and ironically, more likely to stay around.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did it transfer over your folder setups so you don't need to set it up manually?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Awesome! So happy transition is so painless.

Update: Export and import worked perfectly. Device name, device ID, and all folders I was syncing got picked up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Thank you for this :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Ty! Can confirm this worked for me as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yup, that was easy.