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Syncthing Android App Discontinued

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396 points opengears | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.193s | 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]▶
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. RussianCow ◴[20 Oct 24 17:32 UTC] No.41897019[source]▶
Presumably because most people don't know about F-Droid, and there's a question of whether it's worth continuing to develop the app for a tiny subset of the original audience.