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Syncthing Android app discontinued (forum.syncthing.net)
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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Phone makers make no money if you don’t buy new phones

Maybe they should make a new phone thats desirable then. I'm still running on a phone from 2016 because there's no modern one that wouldn't lose me functionality that I use all the time. Anything I buy would be a downgrade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

😂I upgraded from, I think 6 year old iPhone X, to an refurbished iPhone 12 mini

(Love how it is a fast phone which can be used singlehanded)

Will use it, hopefully until we have a viable Linux alternative 😂 one can dream

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'm 100% with you. I want a Light Phone with a changeable battery and the ability to run 4 non-standard phone apps that I need to have mobile: OSMAnd, Home Assistant, Gadget Bridge, and Jami. Assuming it has a phone, calculator, calendar, notes, and address book - the bare-bones phone functions - everything else I use on my phone is literally something I can do probably more easily on my laptop, and is nothing I need to be able to do while out and about. If it did that, I would probably never upgrade; my upgrade cycle is on the order of every 4 years or so as is, but if you took off all of the other crap, I'd use my phone less and upgrade less often.

The main issue with phones like the Light Phone is that there are those apps that need to be mobile, and they often aren't available there.