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Discontinuing syncthing-android (forum.syncthing.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was not even aware of this fork let alone a long timeline of existence. I am adding this onto my weekend project list. Thanks for the recommendation.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sadly it's unusable on Android 15. All of the interactable functions are crammed up into the status bar and cannot be touched.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Wdym cannot be touched?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I Have the same problem and wondered why no one switching to the fork mentions that :D But I guess android 15 is not very widespread jet.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds like a bug and the dev hasn't caught up to the new version?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, there seems to be an open issue for this bug, but actually the developers response doesn't inflict confidence in the fork 😅 He seems to have updated the app to target Android 15 without testing in it in the emulator.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Welp my phone updated to 15 today...guess I can join the bugged syncthing-fork club.

Looks like it is fixed in the latest release, just have to wait until it gets pushes to fdroid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you want to speed up that process you could install Obtainium. Did that and with the newest release the app is usable again 👍

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 1 points 1 month ago

You know, I have obtainium but often forget it exists.