Official Syncthing Android App will be discontinued

[UntrimmedParasail]

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!

To what extent will this impact the fork's future development?

[secretmango]

Syncthing-Fork is more of an advanced version of syncthing-android

I could imagine it would be possible to also maintain a simpler version, that is just the normal one? Maybe it is better to just add a few settings to disable a few buttons or displays.

[Catfriend1]

Hi,

Syncthing-Fork is a personal project, originally meant to keep the Android app alive for my friends and family. I've shared this work from the very beginning and will do so when I hit the code for updates. I will primarily do compatibility with the Android phones "we" use here, so that's currently the range from Android 10 to 14. Feature development is currently not on my roadmap. I myself use the app and depend on the availability of Syncthing on the Android platform for my own workflows.

You're welcome to use the releases on F-Droid or my GitHub if you like the fork.

Kind regards,
Catfriend1

[ERamseth]

sorry to bring this back up, but syncthing-android and syncthing-fork are both wrappers right? Will the binaries inside still continue to be updated? or will syncthing-android being discontinued stagnate the binaries that syncthing-fork wraps?

[Catfriend1]

The binaries come from github.com/syncthing/syncthing

So, yes: they will receive updates.