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Discontinuing syncthing-android (forum.syncthing.net)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

Sad to see it go. There is a fork but seems not so great considering they are looking for active maintainer. Still better than nothing. Need to check it out as it has some enhancements.

Planning to close my Google Play Developer Account. Please say hi if you are interested in obtaining the latest gplay release files from me to help in publishing this app

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I've been using the fdroid syncthing-fork version for a long time now and haven't had any issues at all... Doesn't mean it'll last forever but it's been getting the job done for me even in its current state.

... And can't remember my original reason to use the fork instead lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

OK, I switched to that one now, thanks for pointing it out and explaining it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Let's hope that it doesn't rely on the official release

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I was not even aware of this fork let alone a long timeline of existence. I am adding this onto my weekend project list. Thanks for the recommendation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Sadly it's unusable on Android 15. All of the interactable functions are crammed up into the status bar and cannot be touched.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Wdym cannot be touched?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I Have the same problem and wondered why no one switching to the fork mentions that :D But I guess android 15 is not very widespread jet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like a bug and the dev hasn't caught up to the new version?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes, there seems to be an open issue for this bug, but actually the developers response doesn't inflict confidence in the fork 😅 He seems to have updated the app to target Android 15 without testing in it in the emulator.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Welp my phone updated to 15 today...guess I can join the bugged syncthing-fork club.

Looks like it is fixed in the latest release, just have to wait until it gets pushes to fdroid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you want to speed up that process you could install Obtainium. Did that and with the newest release the app is usable again 👍

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

You know, I have obtainium but often forget it exists.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

I switched to the fork as soon as I read this news. It shouldn't take more than a few minutes:

Just install it in parallel with the mainline app,
export your existing configuration to the default storage location,
import it in syncthing-fork (it'll detect the export file automatically),
and you're done. Uninstall the official app so they don't compete for the daemon and port.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Battery management

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yes, the core version was unusable because of the battery drain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Where's the tailscale fork? Thats my current battery sink

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

THAT'S WHATS DRAINING MY BATTERY! I've been trying to figure it out, I knew it was draining quicker because of that but never really our two and two together

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Android shows which apps consume the most energy since the last charge.

It's great, I've used it a lot.

Specially with relatives. It also lists 'Display', and shows how much your screen use was draining that new phone. I had to explain this to a friend recently, with their new phone. They thought it might be defective. It wasn't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh wow, Nextcloud is really using my battery quite a lot in the background.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There is a bug in 3.30.1 making it sync everything, in a loop. Keep an eye on your data usage! https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/13738

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Holy shit. Thanks for the heads up!