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Syncthing Android App Discontinued

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397 points opengears | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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jasonjayr ◴[20 Oct 24 15:37 UTC] No.41896030[source]▶
From the (current) final comment at https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064

> Nothing came of the discussions with google. Demands by Google for changes to get the permission granted were vague, which makes it both arduous to figure out how to address them and very unclear if whatever I do will actually lead to success. Then more unrelated work to stay on play came up (dev. verification, target API level), which among other influences finally made me realize I don't have the motivation or time anymore to play this game.

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izacus ◴[20 Oct 24 16:22 UTC] No.41896431[source]▶
I don't think Google was ever buy a "I don't want to use file APIs because writing the code would be hard." excuse for a security issue. I don't know what kind of exact "discussions" were possible here for "give me access to all user data, photos and everything because I don't think I want to use SAF APIs". It's like that dude in your company that will have a meltdown in PRs over his better way instead of fixing the comments and having code submitted.

Apple won't let you write into random directories past their APIs either, just because it would be too hard to use ObjC/Swift.

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1. toast0 ◴[20 Oct 24 17:56 UTC] No.41897183[source]▶
Apple's position is different, because Apple never let you have this kind of access.

Android/Google Play review keep restricting APIs and replacing them with less capable APIs, or keeping the APIs and reducing functionality.

It works again, but I had a USB endoscope that stopped working because Google pulled APIs and took a while to replace them. I can't use location sharing in my choice of apps anymore because something on my phone blocks either app runtime, app internet access, app location, or gps decoding and I don't use it often enough to be motivated to delve through logcat to figure it out, if they even still let me use logcat?. I'm sure it helps my battery life, but it reduces the functionality of the phone.