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Syncthing Android App Discontinued

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418 points opengears | 7 comments | 20 Oct 24 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 1.138s | source | bottom
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jsiepkes ◴[20 Oct 24 15:32 UTC] No.41895979[source]▶
There is an Android Syncthing fork [1] which is active and 1.3K stars (for whatever that's worth).

[1] https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android

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1. ajb ◴[20 Oct 24 17:31 UTC] No.41897013[source]▶
Good to know, although the Readme says:

"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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2. Macha ◴[20 Oct 24 18:48 UTC] No.41897584[source]▶
It's on f-droid rather than google play.

I think for the people interested in using Syncthing rather than Dropbox or Google's syncing option, that's not _that_ much of a problem.

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3. stavros ◴[20 Oct 24 21:43 UTC] No.41898732[source]▶
It's going to be much less of a problem for everyone, with these draconian Play policies, as I imagine more and more people will be installing F-droid.
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4. SomeHacker44 ◴[21 Oct 24 02:37 UTC] No.41900220{3}[source]▶
F-Droid is not allowed if you use Google Advanced Security on your account. :( You have to side-load.
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5. stavros ◴[21 Oct 24 02:42 UTC] No.41900237{4}[source]▶
Hmm, what's GAS?
6. NotPractical ◴[21 Oct 24 03:34 UTC] No.41900461[source]▶
I'm always happy to see F-Droid exclusive apps. Gives Google less power over what they can do.
7. em-bee ◴[22 Oct 24 10:22 UTC] No.41912888{4}[source]▶
as far as i know f-droid is using the same mechanism to install apps as would any other app (though i remember reading that this wasn't always the case and that it switched to the standard mechanism at some point), like a filemanager. either an app can invoke the installation or it can't. there should be nothing in f-droid that would make installation any different.