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!

  • imsodin@infosec.pubEnglish
    555·
    2 months ago

    Oh don’t worry to much, mine too: If there wasn’t an alternative for syncthing on android, I might have kept it on lifesupport :)

    • Atemu@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      What’s the history behind this? Why could the changes be done upstream, necessitating a fork?

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        41·
        2 months ago

        Sounds like the original maintainer is tired of maintaining it, and the amount of community support wasn’t enough to justify continuing to put in the effort. And then Google’s packaging process pushed it over the edge, hence retiring the project.

        The fork is just another person deciding to take up maintenance of the project.

        • Atemu@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I know that part.

          The other fork has existed for a long while.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        Only one I can think of is Resilio, but it’s hard on RAM and battery for large folders.

        • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.ccEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          It’s been forever since I looked at resilio so this may be an unfair appraisal but… I seem to remember it’s one of those OSS projects that feels a lot more like free tier commercial software. Do you think that’s the case or nah?

          Honestly just a dumb rsync client would be enough for me.

        • bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          And I don‘t know what‘s going on with them. There weren’t any updates for years, now there is a design overhaul, no new features and suddenly they want me to register. Duck

      • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeEnglish
        441·
        2 months ago

        Syncthing-fork. Both show if you search for Syncthing in fdroid. Since imsodin seems to be OP Dev maintainer for Syncthing, i think he is referring to the fork.