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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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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As much as I want to use F-Droid, my work blocks all third party app stores so it's either have access to my work stuff on one phone (via profiles) or dual wield two phones.

I lack the patience to dual wield again. It's very annoying.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Is this your personal phone? If your work were to dictate what you are allowed to install on your personal phone, that'd be a serious overstepping of bounds.

Perhaps you can sneak in f-droid via adb install and give it app installation permissions via ADB though.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My primary phone belongs to my work. I get a stipend every two years that essentially allows me to buy any supported phone I want.

The conditions are that it's managed by them via MDM and all my work stuff is on the work profile side.

It is a choice I make since it allows me to not carry two phones. I did that for the first two years at my company and it was annoying.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

My primary phone belongs to my work.

So it's not yours. Looks from here that's the one issue you have to solve before everything else.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 5 points 2 years ago

If "your" phone belongs to your employer that's the choice you made. It isn't yours.

[–] derin@lemmy.beru.co 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm annoyed to see you getting down voted - I had a similar issue years ago with my work MacBook (couldn't run a custom WM because any modification to the Finder was blocked without putting the machine into "unsafe" mode).

I love OSS, but without a verifiable way to distribute it large swaths of the workforce won't be able to use it.

F-Droid is great, but sadly it isn't enough.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was today years old when I learned that you can run a custom WM on a Mac.

That's like....the equivalent of a coca cola soda machine dispensing Pepsi.

And in terms of down votes, I don't really care too much. It evens out overtime.

[–] derin@lemmy.beru.co 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep, check out yabai.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you but I don't run a Mac. I used to back in the day. I just know how anal Apple is about people using their devices in any way that they don't specifically want you to.