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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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[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 191 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

Oh my goodness! Syncthing without Android leaves me screwed. My whole digital life revolves around it.

[–] imsodin@infosec.pub 50 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

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 :)

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 30 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

What is this alternative of which you speak?

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 40 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ooh.

Thanks.

I've been running the fork for a long time but somehow figured it was a soft-fork and maybe not really viable without upstream development from syncthing.

Now @imsodin@infosec.pub 's comments are making a lot more sense.

This whole thing is more or less a non-issue then?

[–] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] peregus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

But that is the original Syncthing app @fine_sandy_bottom was talking about the fork that is available in F-Droid

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