Are there any reliable Syncthing Android forks? (programming.dev)

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

It's been a weird situation.

Discontinuing syncthing-android - 2024
But then they list Syncthing-Fork in the docs, seemingly giving the fork their blessing
https://github.com/catfriend1/syncthing-android <-- the fork repo
- doesn't publish to Google Play
- some other person named nel0x publishes the Google Play releases
- Catfriend1 only publishes on F-Droid and GitHub

So I guess your main options are:

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

For additional info about not releasing anymore on play store from Catfriend1 :

I am no longer publishing this on Google Play

See detailed info about release variants and which is recommended to fit your needs.

"nel0x" has announced to continue publishing on the play store. I welcome his help and the work I think he'll put into his mission. It's up to you, reading this, to decide if to trust and/or support him or go with the F-Droid release channel of this app instead. You don't know me and I don't know him... we are all volunteers in the spirit of open source.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

ah, so both are legit. thanks.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

The announcement literal purpose is to tell you the author does not know if its legit or not and that you should decide for yourself.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Can confirm am using Syncthing-Fork from F-Droid.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I use it too, work well! 🙂

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

I've been using Syncthing-Fork for a while now. It seems to work fine for me, however you do need to launch it occasionally as sometimes it can get killed when backgrounded depending on your flavour of Android.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I set up the run conditions when I used it on my poco phone (poco and xiaomi are notorious background task killers) and that worked well for me. I had to launch it less than when I didn't set run conditions IIRC.

ever since I upgraded though, I stopped using syncthing lol

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