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Discontinuing syncthing-android (forum.syncthing.net)

submitted 1 day ago by o1o12o21@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Reason is a combination of Google making Play publishing something between hard and impossible and no active maintenance. The app saw no significant development for a long time and without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance an app requires even without doing much, if any, changes.

Sad to see it go. There is a fork but seems not so great considering they are looking for active maintainer. Still better than nothing. Need to check it out as it has some enhancements.

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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[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 75 points 1 day ago

I've been using the fdroid syncthing-fork version for a long time now and haven't had any issues at all... Doesn't mean it'll last forever but it's been getting the job done for me even in its current state.

... And can't remember my original reason to use the fork instead lol

[-] mortalic@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Battery management

[-] christophski@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day ago

Yes, the core version was unusable because of the battery drain

[-] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago

THAT'S WHATS DRAINING MY BATTERY! I've been trying to figure it out, I knew it was draining quicker because of that but never really our two and two together

[-] anzo@programming.dev 7 points 21 hours ago

Android shows which apps consume the most energy since the last charge.

It's great, I've used it a lot.

Specially with relatives. It also lists 'Display', and shows how much your screen use was draining that new phone. I had to explain this to a friend recently, with their new phone. They thought it might be defective. It wasn't.

[-] SeekPie@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

Oh wow, Nextcloud is really using my battery quite a lot in the background.

[-] drk@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 hours ago

There is a bug in 3.30.1 making it sync everything, in a loop. Keep an eye on your data usage! https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/13738

[-] SeekPie@lemm.ee 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Holy shit. Thanks for the heads up!

[-] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 2 points 22 hours ago

Where's the tailscale fork? Thats my current battery sink

[-] o1o12o21@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago

I was not even aware of this fork let alone a long timeline of existence. I am adding this onto my weekend project list. Thanks for the recommendation.

[-] halm@leminal.space 11 points 21 hours ago

I switched to the fork as soon as I read this news. It shouldn't take more than a few minutes:

Just install it in parallel with the mainline app,
export your existing configuration to the default storage location,
import it in syncthing-fork (it'll detect the export file automatically),
and you're done. Uninstall the official app so they don't compete for the daemon and port.

[-] weLookAbove@lemm.ee 2 points 16 hours ago

Sadly it's unusable on Android 15. All of the interactable functions are crammed up into the status bar and cannot be touched.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago

Wdym cannot be touched?

[-] MartianFox@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago

Yeah I Have the same problem and wondered why no one switching to the fork mentions that :D But I guess android 15 is not very widespread jet.

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Sounds like a bug and the dev hasn't caught up to the new version?

[-] MartianFox@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago

Yes, there seems to be an open issue for this bug, but actually the developers response doesn't inflict confidence in the fork 😅 He seems to have updated the app to target Android 15 without testing in it in the emulator.