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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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[-] NeuronautML@lemmy.ml 36 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Fyi the syncthing-fork guy (catfriend1) who's still updating has a donating button on F-droid via Liberapay. It's up to you if your financial situation allows you to donate, but the more of us help the remaining developers for their time, in particular those of us that rely so much on their work, the better off we'll be. Let's give them a little motivation to keep working on this.

FYI2 syncthing-fork (as written and confirmed in this thread) has an import button for your folders from syncthing Android.

[-] electronVolt@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 hours ago

PayPal though. Is there another way to donate to this superhero?

[-] el_abuelo@programming.dev 75 points 21 hours ago

I just installed syncthing-fork from f-droid and it worked flawlessly as far as I can tell:

"Export" in syncthing
Uninstall syncthing
Install syncthing-fork from f-droid
Import in syncthing-fork

[-] breezelbub@l.shoddy.site 2 points 5 hours ago

Yup, that was easy.

[-] Unbecredible@lemm.ee 36 points 15 hours ago

I feel the existence of an "export" option in a piece of software is noble in this day and age, and I'm so appreciative of it.

It says "look, I don't WANT you to go to my competitor, but I'm not gonna try to hold your data hostage to prevent it."

It's class, as the Scottish would say.

[-] dan@upvote.au 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Open source software doesn't have a reason to lock you in like proprietary software does :)

More and more proprietary SaaS systems are allowing data exports now, to comply with laws like the GDPR "right to know". Say what you want about Google and Facebook, but they were the first big companies to start allowing data to be exported before there was any law requiring it - Facebook in 2010 and Google in 2011.

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

I've said for a while that platforms that allow you to easily move make me more comfortable using them, and ironically, more likely to stay around.

[-] twotonebax@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Thank you for this :)

[-] stardust@lemmy.ca 15 points 20 hours ago

Did it transfer over your folder setups so you don't need to set it up manually?

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[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 39 points 21 hours ago

Who gives a shit about play? How much do I have to pay you to update it in fdroid still?

[-] imsodin@infosec.pub 160 points 1 day ago

I am not the creator, funnily that is/was one of the Lemmy creators: Nutomic :)
I am a syncthing co-maintainer that kept the android app on life support since a while.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

funnily that is/was one of the Lemmy creators: Nutomic :)

Plot twist

[-] ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago

Thank you for your work!!!

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 21 hours ago

THANK you for the hard work! Your app is part of my phone photo and appdata backup.

Side question: Will you continue with a fork for f-droid?

[-] imsodin@infosec.pub 20 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

As the statement says I wont - it will be fully discontinued. This statement applies to the official app only. It doesn't say anything about other apps or forks - any existing once can and hopefully will continue to exist. Also all the code is free.

[-] dan@upvote.au 3 points 10 hours ago

In that case, could the syncthing-fork app be renamed to syncthing, now that it'll probably be the main Android app for Syncthing?

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