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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] 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is going ro leave a shit-ton of people dead in the water.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The app is not going to suddenly stop working, and it's unlikely to do so before a replacement appears.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Any news about the fork of it? https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android-fdroid

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

Somene opened an issue about it, maybe answers are gonna be posted here : https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/issues/1149

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not sure I understand the reasoning for discontinuing. Google standing in the way? Not enough f-droid users benefiting from it? It didn't see development cause it was already feature complete?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

oof. All I can do is thank you for the hard work that anybody's put into this, and I'm sad to see it go because I've been using this with my keypass for probably about a year now.

Really hoping the Graphene OS lawsuit allows for some Options to open up again!

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