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Syncthing Android app discontinued (forum.syncthing.net)

submitted 6 months ago by chaospatterns@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Unbecredible@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hoping it remains viable for a long time without updates. Syncing my KeePass database is really key for me. I need to fluidly add and read passwords from at least 3 devices.

[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 6 months ago

With today's BitWarden drama, I planned to use KeePass with SyncThing for like an hour before seeing this :(((

[–] imsodin@infosec.pub 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Harimau@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Thank you for all of your hard work!