Syncthing Android App Discontinued

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396 points opengears | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.325s | source

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lopkeny12ko ◴[20 Oct 24 15:51 UTC] No.41896148[source]▶

...Does the author not understand that the Google Play Store is not the only distribution mechanism for apps? Why not just continue to distribute APKs for users to install manually?

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gurchik ◴[20 Oct 24 15:54 UTC] No.41896177[source]▶

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The app is on F-Droid, which is mentioned in the article: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid...

I’m not sure why it can’t continue to be. Does anyone know why?

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1. somat ◴[20 Oct 24 17:04 UTC] No.41896808[source]▶

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I suspect it could be, however it sounds like the author has lost all motivation to continue work on syncthing android and has formally announced that no further development will be done. And as much as I like syncthing-android I appreciate this sort of straight forward communications more and salute the author for clearly stating intentions.

Now seeing as it is open source (hooray) The way I think that will go is as follows, we will continue using the existing apk(I get mine off f-droid) for a few months to years, in the meantime seeing as the app is so useful to so many a few forks will arise, one will end up being the best, and we will eventually start using that one.

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