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!

  • AtemuEnglish
    12•2 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]English
      9•2 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•2 months 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!English
      6•2 months ago

      If “your” phone belongs to your employer that’s the choice you made. It isn’t yours.