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!

  • xodoh74984@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1255·
    2 months ago

    This is sad. Google Play should never hold this much weight in the self hosted community. For Android users dedicated to open source software, F-Droid is the target.

    I don’t think SyncThing users would have much issue with the app disappearing from Google. Doing away with Google is the goal.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      163·
      2 months ago

      As much as I want to use F-Droid, my work blocks all third party app stores so it’s either have access to my work stuff on one phone (via profiles) or dual wield two phones.

      I lack the patience to dual wield again. It’s very annoying.

      • Atemu@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        Is this your personal phone? If your work were to dictate what you are allowed to install on your personal phone, that’d be a serious overstepping of bounds.

        Perhaps you can sneak in f-droid via adb install and give it app installation permissions via ADB though.

        • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          9·
          2 months ago

          My primary phone belongs to my work. I get a stipend every two years that essentially allows me to buy any supported phone I want.

          The conditions are that it’s managed by them via MDM and all my work stuff is on the work profile side.

          It is a choice I make since it allows me to not carry two phones. I did that for the first two years at my company and it was annoying.

          • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            11·
            2 months ago

            My primary phone belongs to my work.

            So it’s not yours. Looks from here that’s the one issue you have to solve before everything else.