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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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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

THANK you for the hard work! Your app is part of my phone photo and appdata backup.

Side question: Will you continue with a fork for f-droid?

[–] imsodin@infosec.pub 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

As the statement says I wont - it will be fully discontinued. This statement applies to the official app only. It doesn't say anything about other apps or forks - any existing once can and hopefully will continue to exist. Also all the code is free.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago

Sad to hear but my point still stands: Thank you very much for your work.
Any recommendation for an Android fork or any other way to make it work on mobile without an app (if that's even possible)

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 2 years ago

In that case, could the syncthing-fork app be renamed to syncthing, now that it'll probably be the main Android app for Syncthing?