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.

Sad to see it go. There is a fork but seems not so great considering they are looking for active maintainer. Still better than nothing. Need to check it out as it has some enhancements.

Planning to close my Google Play Developer Account. Please say hi if you are interested in obtaining the latest gplay release files from me to help in publishing this app

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    I’ve been using the fdroid syncthing-fork version for a long time now and haven’t had any issues at all… Doesn’t mean it’ll last forever but it’s been getting the job done for me even in its current state.

    … And can’t remember my original reason to use the fork instead lol

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      I was not even aware of this fork let alone a long timeline of existence. I am adding this onto my weekend project list. Thanks for the recommendation.

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        I switched to the fork as soon as I read this news. It shouldn’t take more than a few minutes:

        • Just install it in parallel with the mainline app,
        • export your existing configuration to the default storage location,
        • import it in syncthing-fork (it’ll detect the export file automatically),
        • and you’re done. Uninstall the official app so they don’t compete for the daemon and port.
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          THAT’S WHATS DRAINING MY BATTERY! I’ve been trying to figure it out, I knew it was draining quicker because of that but never really our two and two together

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            Android shows which apps consume the most energy since the last charge.

            It’s great, I’ve used it a lot.

            Specially with relatives. It also lists ‘Display’, and shows how much your screen use was draining that new phone. I had to explain this to a friend recently, with their new phone. They thought it might be defective. It wasn’t.