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Syncthing Android app discontinued (forum.syncthing.net)

submitted 2 years ago by chaospatterns@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I see, my app that I use for keepass has integrated webDAV sync where I can point it to a keepass file on the webDAV server (strongbox iOS) I just thought android keepass apps should have such feature as well.

The iOS app of NC is slow as well, and not good enough for using to sync keepass files, but the Linux app seems to be good enough.

And yea, just learned, that sync thing apparently works without a server but all P2P? That is 100% killer feature 😃👌🏻

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

IIRC Keepass2Android does have that feature.

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fair point. Does it cache the database for when one's of the grid?

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

Yup!

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 1 points 2 years ago

The NC app (and DAVx5 contacts and calendar sync for that matter) do provide a WebDAV mount point on android so I suppose I could access content directly. And someone mentioned there's DAV support in some clients as well. Perhaps I'm just overly worried about losing access, with Syncthing the files are on my device no matter if my self-hosted home solution or internet goes down.

But the no-server cloud function of Syncthing is absolutely a killer feature. And very important as a simple and easy privacy solution for inexperienced users IMO. I was hoping for a better windows solution, not a deprecation of device support.

Speaking of servers, I also run a Syncthing server so I can sync files without having two user devices online at the same time. Syncthing natively support encryption at rest (files on disk) so it satisfies my absolute demand of never storing unencrypted personal files on a server. Even if the server is disk encrypted, in my own home and only accessibly through VPN...

Encrypted password database in encrypted storage on an encrypted storage only accessibly by encrypted connection via an encrypted connection... Maybe I'm overdoing it. Who am I kidding, I'd get a rottweiler to guard my home server if I could.