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Syncthing Android app discontinued (forum.syncthing.net)

submitted 2 days 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] 49 points 2 days ago

Oh No! This is terrible news. This IMHO is one of the most irreplaceable projects out there. I don't know of another cross-platform local file syncing app that comes anywhere close to this. I hope that it can continue even if it's not through the Play Store.

Google seems to be torpedoing open source developments with a number of decisions lately. Maybe they see F-Droid as a threat now that EU is making them open competition? Maybe they just don't care.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Literally set up a home Nas and syncthing last week.

What's a good alternative for Android?

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Cool, now I have to find something else to sync my Obsidian vault to my phone. It just worked! Fuck. =____=

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (4 children)

As noted elsewhere Syncthing-Fork is still going strong, and a drop-in replacement, it's on F-Droid.

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[–] paperd 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There is an android native GUI for syncthing in fdroid that looks like its still maintained: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android?tab=readme-ov-file

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I've been using Syncthing-Fork (on F-Droid) for the extra features it has. I wonder if that developer will be able to continue.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (5 children)

For the F-droid enabled users, it seems there's a Syncthing app in the Termux repos:

~ $ apt show syncthing
Package: syncthing
Version: 1.28.0
Maintainer: @termux
Installed-Size: 26.4 MB
Homepage: https://syncthing.net/
Download-Size: 7857 kB
APT-Sources: https://packages.termux.dev/apt/termux-main stable/main aarch64 Packages
Description: Decentralized file synchronization

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