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
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
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.
Sadly it’s unusable on Android 15. All of the interactable functions are crammed up into the status bar and cannot be touched.
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.
Syncing with my phone was my main use for syncthing. :(
Aww, too bad
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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.
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.
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
