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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] 2 points 21 minutes ago

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] 3 points 50 minutes ago

Who gives a shit about play? How much do I have to pay you to update it in fdroid still?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Sad day indeed, bitwarden going shady and this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I think it was made by mistake. They will more likely remove that dependency

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago)

Perhaps the hard dependency was a mistake, but not them moving more and more code to their proprietary library. It appears that their intent is to make the client mostly a wrapper around their proprietary library, so they can still claim to have an open source GPLv3 piece of software. What good is that client if you can only use it in conjunction with that proprietary library, even if you can build it without that dependency?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Ahh those fuckers.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I've installed it from F-droid but still. Fuck google. They really do need breaking up.

I heavily rely on Syncthing. Does anyone know what the outlook is for Syncthing-fork, or what the likelihood is of someone taking on maintenance of this version?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 hours ago

The way i understand it, this stops maintenance for Syncthing, but Syncthing-fork in fdroid will continue its development and support as usual. Both show if you do a Syncthing search in fdroid. The fork is more up to date with features.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I am not the creator, funnily that is/was one of the Lemmy creators: Nutomic :)
I am a syncthing co-maintainer that kept the android app on life support since a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

THANK you for the hard work! Your app is part of my phone photo and appdata backup.

Side question: Will you continue with a fork for f-droid?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 hours ago

Thank you for all of your hard work!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Phones are becoming less and less interesting by the day.

Once they get to the point were all of the options that don't require incredibly inconvenient sacrifices in functionality to maintain the interesting stuff like a video game console then that will kill interest in the market for me.

If I can't do anything besides basic smart phone crap I might as well just buy whatever has a good camera once every half decade or so and be done with it. So whatever top end thing Samsung or Apple are putting out.

I'm not sure Google has fully thought through what it means to just be a worse version of what Apple puts out, but with more ads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 49 minutes ago

Just let me run Qubes OS on my phone already and all the problems are solved.

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

You will lose interest in the market, but will keep buying? Did I misunderstand something?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 hours ago

God this is sad.

The parts of tech that are useful and elegant are contracting, while subscriptions and ads just get more obnoxious.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Literally set up a home Nas and syncthing last week.

What's a good alternative for Android?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 149 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Oh my goodness! Syncthing without Android leaves me screwed. My whole digital life revolves around it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 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] 2 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

What is this alternative of which you speak?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 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] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 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 @[email protected] 's comments are making a lot more sense.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago
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