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Announcement by the creator: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002

Unfortunately I don’t have good news on the state of the android app: I am retiring it. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing version.

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.

Thanks a lot to everyone who ever contributed to this app!

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[-] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago

Phones are becoming less and less interesting by the day.

Once they get to the point were all of the options that don't require incredibly inconvenient sacrifices in functionality to maintain the interesting stuff like a video game console then that will kill interest in the market for me.

If I can't do anything besides basic smart phone crap I might as well just buy whatever has a good camera once every half decade or so and be done with it. So whatever top end thing Samsung or Apple are putting out.

I'm not sure Google has fully thought through what it means to just be a worse version of what Apple puts out, but with more ads.

[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 3 weeks ago

You will lose interest in the market, but will keep buying? Did I misunderstand something?

[-] Koarnine@pawb.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

I think goes from obsession to possesion maybe, ur kinda tied to a phone for a lot of services these days and 5 years is at least more reasonable than every year or 2

[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 3 weeks ago

You're right, and if we think about it, companies are well aware of that, and that's why they don't care for offering anything beyond the basic and walled experience, because we will buy anyway.

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