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Per the GitHub readme:

This app is discontinued. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing version. Interactions (issues, PRs) are limited now, and the entire repo will be archived after the last release. Thus all contributions are preserved for any future (re)use. The forum is still open for discussions and questions. I would kindly ask you to refrain from trying to challenge the decision or asking "why-type" questions - I wont engage with them.

The 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!

This is extremely disappointing news. I have been using the Syncthing-Fork version, but since it is based on this app, this may be the end for that app as well.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    It's amazing how Google Play keeps imposing more and more restrictions to the point they're killing legitimate apps, yet won't stop actual malware from being published.
    Legit, some days ago one of my coworkers had installed some "water reminder" app that was pure malware, didn't even have a icon on the homescreen, just opening random ads. Reported multiple times, I'd tell y'all the name if I could remember it

  • midimalist@lemdro.id
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    1 month ago

    I use it for my Obsidian/Logseq markdown notes :0

    I truly hope the developer can have a nice break from this.

  • Matt@lemdro.id
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    1 month ago

    A GitHub issue was opened for Syncthing-Fork, so it will be worth watching that to know whether it will continue to be supported.

    • tychosmoose@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      They already publish on F-Droid. It sounds like it was just a lot of built-up frustration from the last several years of Google blocking apps that require storage permissions and making it difficult to get restored to the Play store.

      This was the bug from the last removal. They were going back and forth with Google unproductively for months. Hopefully the existing fork (which was also taken down from the Play store) can keep going on F-Droid.

  • treadful@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    Damn, this is actually critical for me. I use it to sync photos, files, and password vaults between my devices.

    Kind of wondering if it's worth getting into Android development now...

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    1 month ago

    ??? It's an app for power users, the Google play limitations are irrelevant once it's published on fdroid...

  • christophski@feddit.uk
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    1 month ago

    My phone just died irreparably and sync thing saved so much of my data. Really hope it continues in some form