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 ...

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.

Sad to see it go. There is a fork but seems not so great considering they are looking for active maintainer. Still better than nothing. Need to check it out as it has some enhancements.

Planning to close my Google Play Developer Account. Please say hi if you are interested in obtaining the latest gplay release files from me to help in publishing this app

  •  telepresence   ( @telepresence@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
    4•4 hours ago

    the fork version works fine. if that dies, i’m hopeful some new fork will emerge. syncthing is well known and used by many, so i think as long as the original software is alive, there’ll be a way to use it on your phone. heck, there’s ways to run syncthing on a pocketbook e-reader, lol

      •  BearOfaTime   ( @BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ) 
        1•12 hours ago

        Only updates it should need are for weird changes Google decides to make to Android.

        Hell, at this point if someone forked the fork, and charged a small fee for the Relay Server hosting, I’d happily pay.

    •  DebianGuy   ( @o1o12o21@lemmy.ml ) OP
      6•14 hours ago

      Aww, too bad

      I see a comment inbox but can’t see here. I’m pasting it here

      I switched to the fork as soon as I read this news. It shouldn’t take more than a few minutes:
      Just install it in parallel with the mainline app,
      export your existing configuration to the default storage location, import it in syncthing-fork (it’ll detect the export file automatically),
      and you’re done. Uninstall the official app so they don’t compete for the daemon and port.

  •  Shimitar   ( @Shimitar@feddit.it ) 
    10•16 hours ago

    I installed from fdroid, I expect it to be still available as far as it will work…

    And I guess somebody will build and keep publishing it just not on google play, which is anyway a cesspool nowadays, so no big deal.

  •  Mikelius   ( @Mikelius@lemmy.ml ) 
    50•22 hours ago

    I’ve been using the fdroid syncthing-fork version for a long time now and haven’t had any issues at all… Doesn’t mean it’ll last forever but it’s been getting the job done for me even in its current state.

    … And can’t remember my original reason to use the fork instead lol

  •  grapemix   ( @grapemix@lemmy.ml ) 
    14•19 hours ago

    Syncthing is such a wonderful project. RIP. But for us already being spoiled by syncthing, it might be a good time to self host services to handle, sync and serve our own data like photos, contacts and more.

  •  aard   ( @aard@kyu.de ) 
    8•21 hours ago

    I’ve let my google developer account expire quite a while ago after they kept asking for more and more stupid stuff. Nowadays if you don’t get paid a lot for it you must be either a masochist or a bit stupid if you upload to google play.

  •  bad_news   ( @bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net ) 
    4•21 hours ago

    If it’s not open it will die via failure in capitalism, going broke, or “success” in capitalism like DarkSkies or HopStop, which Apple bought just to stop them existing (these are both least case scenarios in a consumer capitalism that serves neither consumers nor 90% of capitalists)