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Syncthing Android app discontinued (forum.syncthing.net)

submitted 16 hours ago by chaospatterns@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] absGeekNZ 46 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The problem is not "Syncthing users" it is the others that we bring along with us.

I already have F-Droid on my phone, but the dozen others that I have promoted Syncthing to over the years do not. This is going to cause a bunch of problems.

This is much more important than what you portray here.

[–] t_378@lemmy.one 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The point you raise reminds me of when Signal dropped SMS support, after my efforts to convert all the non techie people in my life over to it. So sad when it happens...

[–] absGeekNZ 2 points 4 hours ago

I was reminded of the same thing.

[–] tychosmoose@lemm.ee 23 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

That and the shrinking ability to grant access to device storage. If that becomes an option only on rooted phones (which seems like the directly Google is heading) it will make the audience for such an app much smaller.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If google heads that way I'll head somewhere else.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

To apple? Linux phone experience is just trash.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 minute ago* (last edited 44 seconds ago)

This is my currently dilemma.
Each year Android becomes more restrictive like iOS with none of the benefits, Rooting becomes harder as more apps tap into the Play Integrity API (and strong Integrity is on the way to kill most workarounds for it), iPhone got a little better but is still locked down as fuck, where the hell do I go to? 😒

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 points 12 hours ago

And yet Resilio can access a lot more than ST, even without root.