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!

  • @[email protected]English
    157•17 hours ago

    Oh my goodness! Syncthing without Android leaves me screwed. My whole digital life revolves around it.

    • @[email protected]English
      34•13 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 :)

      • AtemuEnglish
        3•7 hours ago

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

        • @[email protected]English
          20•10 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.

          • @[email protected]English
            7•8 hours ago

            Ooh.

            Thanks.

            I’ve been running the fork for a long time but somehow figured it was a soft-fork and maybe not really viable without upstream development from syncthing.

            Now @[email protected] 's comments are making a lot more sense.

            This whole thing is more or less a non-issue then?

        • @[email protected]English
          7•12 hours ago

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

          • @[email protected]English
            4•9 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.

          • @[email protected]English
            4•11 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