Discontinuing syncthing-android
forum.syncthing.net
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 ...

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!

    • imsodin@infosec.pubEnglish
      364·
      14 hours ago

      Oh don’t worry to much, mine too: If there wasn’t an alternative for syncthing on android, I might have kept it on lifesupport :)

      • Atemu@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        8 hours ago

        What’s the history behind this? Why could the changes be done upstream, necessitating a fork?

        • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeEnglish
          20·
          11 hours ago

          Syncthing-fork. Both show if you search for Syncthing in fdroid. Since imsodin seems to be OP Dev maintainer for Syncthing, i think he is referring to the fork.

        • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
          7·
          13 hours ago

          Only one I can think of is Resilio, but it’s hard on RAM and battery for large folders.

          • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.ccEnglish
            3·
            10 hours ago

            It’s been forever since I looked at resilio so this may be an unfair appraisal but… I seem to remember it’s one of those OSS projects that feels a lot more like free tier commercial software. Do you think that’s the case or nah?

            Honestly just a dumb rsync client would be enough for me.

          • bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            12 hours ago

            And I don‘t know what‘s going on with them. There weren’t any updates for years, now there is a design overhaul, no new features and suddenly they want me to register. Duck