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Syncthing Android app discontinued (forum.syncthing.net)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21070831

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!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Releasing apks in github isn't a viable option? Syncthing without the android app is pretty much pointless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

As far as I understand, they don't want to publish new releases there because there's nothing new to release, and they don't have resources to maintain it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Alternative

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Only the wrapper containing the Android UI is addressed by the fork

Discontinuation of Syncthing will cause stagnation in the fork as well, unless the fork's devs announce(d?) they are picking up more work