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!

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    30·
    23 days ago

    THANK you for the hard work! Your app is part of my phone photo and appdata backup.

    Side question: Will you continue with a fork for f-droid?

    • imsodin@infosec.pubEnglish
      271·
      23 days ago

      As the statement says I wont - it will be fully discontinued. This statement applies to the official app only. It doesn’t say anything about other apps or forks - any existing once can and hopefully will continue to exist. Also all the code is free.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        11·
        23 days ago

        Sad to hear but my point still stands: Thank you very much for your work.
        Any recommendation for an Android fork or any other way to make it work on mobile without an app (if that’s even possible)

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
        3·
        23 days ago

        In that case, could the syncthing-fork app be renamed to syncthing, now that it’ll probably be the main Android app for Syncthing?