4mo ago

Syncthing Android app discontinued

forum.syncthing.net Discontinuing syncthing-android

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 maintenan...

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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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
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
- Did it transfer over your folder setups so you don't need to set it up manually?
  
  Yes
  
  Awesome! So happy transition is so painless.
  Update: Export and import worked perfectly. Device name, device ID, and all folders I was syncing got picked up.
- Thank you for this :)
- Ty! Can confirm this worked for me as well.
- Yup, that was easy.

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