Android

Syncthing is pretty big. Weird that it's being dropped.

I don't know what I'm gonna do if the fork dies, too. This is shit that should be like, national infrastructure.

"The devs of internet have discontinued production"

It's amazing how Google Play keeps imposing more and more restrictions to the point they're killing legitimate apps, yet won't stop actual malware from being published.
Legit, some days ago one of my coworkers had installed some "water reminder" app that was pure malware, didn't even have a icon on the homescreen, just opening random ads. Reported multiple times, I'd tell y'all the name if I could remember it

Hopefully Syncthing-Fork will still be maintained somewhat, and remains available through F-Droid..

Google holds way too much power and takes too many arbitrary decisions.. including the absurdity of asking for a absurdly expensive and time-consuming security audit for Google Drive access, which as far as I'm aware is not a thing for other cloud storage services like Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.

The 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.

1. Why not just publish via F-Droid or even just to Github to be installed via Obtainium?

2. What does "without Play releases" mean? What "active maintenance" is the developer expecting?

That's a bummer. I've been using the forked version as well, and even that dev has been annoyed with Google Play enough that it's only released on F-Droid nowadays.

Personally, I don't think it's an issue only releasing only on F-Droid, because the people interested in Syncthing wouldn't be deterred by that if they're not already using it, but I totally get why that might sap the last bit of motivation the dev has.

Noooo! I don't care about Google play. I only use it from fdroid. It's the most important app on my phone! What will i do now?

A GitHub issue was opened for Syncthing-Fork, so it will be worth watching that to know whether it will continue to be supported.

Damn, this is actually critical for me. I use it to sync photos, files, and password vaults between my devices.

Kind of wondering if it's worth getting into Android development now...

Bummer, it's one of my favorite apps =(

I use it for my Obsidian/Logseq markdown notes :0

I truly hope the developer can have a nice break from this.

That's a huge shame. I was using it quite extensively to sync wallpapers and immediately-necessary files to my phone.

It's not even like it looks any better for iOS either. Between the filesystem permission issues, and the background activity being severely crippled as standard, no wonder there's no development there either

Have this on all my devices to sync wallpapers. Such a shame when developers burn out

My phone just died irreparably and sync thing saved so much of my data. Really hope it continues in some form

Just at the time i started to use it in my android it got discontinued 😕

Lamenugs

Well I suppose it is understandable. Sad to see especially when F-droid exists.

??? It's an app for power users, the Google play limitations are irrelevant once it's published on fdroid...

Glad the dev is managing their capacity, hopefully others will maintain it. Unfortunately phone sync is tightly controlled, limited to paid storage services, as offered by the phone makers.

oof :(