Syncthing for Android discontinued

Oh damn, I use it every day on multiple devices. I need this app. :/

Lets hope syncthing-Fork, which I use continues.

What a shame, I spent a lot of time working on syncthing-android (probably around four years). But in the end I stopped for the same reason, it's very demotivating to be so reliant on a corporation like Google which is entirely indifferent or even hostile to open source apps. Every year with the new Android version there are new required features or mandatory changes to implement, and if you don't comply they don't allow publishing new app versions. That's not a big deal for commercial apps with fulltime developers, but it's a lot of work for small apps maintained by volunteers. And it's never anything that would benefit syncthing-android or it's users, just busywork that takes away from bug fixes and feature development.

The good thing about open source is that someone else can always pickup and continue the work. Google's shenanigans were what drove me to server administration and backend development, which finally led me to work on Lemmy. The experience with syncthing-android definitely taught me a lot about how to run a popular open source project.

This is extremely sad. I use Syncthing a lot to sync documents between my phone an my computer.

The main benefit over client/server-based solutions are that it always works.
No network connection? No problem, the files are all stored locally.
I broke my home server again? No problem, the devices can talk directly to each other.

Well, this is going to mess up my whole setup. Especially my notes.

Well shit

Damn. That's really sad. I hope Syncthing-Fork doesn't get discontinued. I'll have to change how I do my password management if I can't use syncthing on Android

I wonder if you can still have syncthing on Android just by using Termux, installing from the package manager (looks like syncthing is available) and installing Termux on boot app add on to keep syncthing running no matter what.

Obviously not as convenient but potentially a workaround

Dang :(

Does anyone know of any alternatives? That run on my not google's or amazon's devices?

This app was incredibly important to me. I don't really understand what the developer was saying about Google Play either. What does Google want from him?

I'll be saving this post for all the suggestions in the comments. Hopefully, a viable alternative presents itself. I've been making a lot of tech illiterate friends reliant on this app, and they're going to be asking me for an alternative.

Moved my stuff over a few months ago, ironically as a de-googling exercise to stop using Gdrive. :/

why

Was just starting to play with Syncthing on Android a month or so ago, very sad :(

@Matt damn. Last time I tried to install it it wasn't showing in play store search. Figured it's some bullshit new requirements as usual. Because there's always bullshit new requirements with google.

Hard to blame anyone for getting tired of this treatment.

There was talk that the next version of Android will have a full terminal with some sort of Linux emulation. Would be cool if that allowed running the Linux version natively.

@Matt I don't understand. Why is a problem with the Google Play Store an issue for an application available through f-droid and on Github?

Well if there's enough demand some folks who want it enough and can do the work might step in.

I'm wondering if syncthing in gplay can show some kind of warning that the app is discontinued pointing to use the fork version on f-droid, or, if that's prohibited by play's EUFOA (end-user fuckover agreement), discussion on the forums mentioning the existence of said fork... [addit: So, kinda like what termux folks did, but less covertly]

Time to roll your own with unison over SSHFS. Can confirm it works.

@Matt Another reason to break free from the Google-controlled Android world and move to #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #LinuxOnMobile @linmob