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Syncthing Android app discontinued (forum.syncthing.net)

submitted 1 month ago by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/opensource@programming.dev

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21070831

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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[–] somegeek@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Releasing apks in github isn't a viable option? Syncthing without the android app is pretty much pointless.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

As far as I understand, they don't want to publish new releases there because there's nothing new to release, and they don't have resources to maintain it