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Syncthing Android app discontinued
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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.
I know that part.
The other fork has existed for a long while.