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The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android

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410 points morsch | 5 comments | 14 May 25 05:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.437s | source
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thombles ◴[14 May 25 11:26 UTC] No.43983191[source]▶
This is also why the official SyncThing Android app stopped being distributed. There is a fork but it's not available on the Play Store.
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1. fsh ◴[14 May 25 12:34 UTC] No.43983745[source]▶
The fork is in the play store and works fine for me on Android 15: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.cat...

I was a bit surprised that the official client suddenly disappeared though.

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2. deng ◴[14 May 25 12:54 UTC] No.43983958[source]▶
From a very cursory look it seems like syncthing-fork uses ContentResolver and other stuff from SAF, so it seems they made it work.

The official maintainer of syncthing-fork indeed stopped publishing to Google Play, but it seems some other guy is doing that now for him.

3. JeremyNT ◴[14 May 25 15:33 UTC] No.43985792[source]▶
> I was a bit surprised that the official client suddenly disappeared though.

Here is when syncthing dropped the official Android client [0] so you can read through their rationale and the HN response at the time.

I am not an Android developer but I do follow this space; I had the impression at the time that it really was mostly about the dev cycles that would have been required and nobody willing to do the work.

I do wonder why they don't just make the fork an official Syncthing project, it seems like the obvious solution would be to officially bless it. I can only guess the maintainer likes their independence.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895718

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4. kortilla ◴[14 May 25 16:52 UTC] No.43986694[source]▶
Well they also probably don’t want the reputation hit if the fork ends up doing some kind of rug pull.
5. BitPirate ◴[15 May 25 04:49 UTC] No.43991945[source]▶
The play store version isn't updated anymore. You should switch to F-Droid.