Per the GitHub readme:
This app is discontinued. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing version. Interactions (issues, PRs) are limited now, and the entire repo will be archived after the last release. Thus all contributions are preserved for any future (re)use. The forum is still open for discussions and questions. I would kindly ask you to refrain from trying to challenge the decision or asking “why-type” questions - I wont engage with them.
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.
Thanks a lot to everyone who ever contributed to this app!
This is extremely disappointing news. I have been using the Syncthing-Fork version, but since it is based on this app, this may be the end for that app as well.
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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.
It’s why I can’t wait for a truly open mobile OS that I’d feel comfortable running as a daily driver for work critical applications.
Graphene with sandbox?
That’s what I’m running, but I’d rather devs move away from play store. When looking for apps, f-droid and compatible repos are sorely lacking. I’ll still look there first though.
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.
I use it for my Obsidian/Logseq markdown notes :0
I truly hope the developer can have a nice break from this.
I was literally going to set that up this week… Damn it.
Currently using Nextcloud to sync it but it’s shit.
A GitHub issue was opened for Syncthing-Fork, so it will be worth watching that to know whether it will continue to be supported.
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.
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
well there is mobius sync, but yeah
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Bummer, it’s one of my favorite apps =(
??? It’s an app for power users, the Google play limitations are irrelevant once it’s published on fdroid…
Except for all the family and friends phones I have installed it on, these are not power users.
Not being on the play store is a major deal.
Yes but it’s still better than nothing. Especially if the alternative is Termux+finely tuned power profile with Tasker. Install F-Droid to auto-update and then is set and forget
Agreed, it is fine for me. But I’m not going to setup something like that for family or friends.
Syncthing is pretty big. Weird that it’s being dropped.
Just at the time i started to use it in my android it got discontinued 😕
Same here. Tried it out and it’s been great for a few months. I was just about to get some family members set up using it.
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”
Lamenugs
My phone just died irreparably and sync thing saved so much of my data. Really hope it continues in some form
oof :(
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?
Well it will probably keep working unless you update to a newer android version that could break the app. In the long term we have to hope someone picks up the torch.
