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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.catfriend1.syncthingandroid https://
by fsh 1y ago
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.catfriend1.syncthingandroid https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.cat...
I was a bit surprised that the official client suddenly disappeared though.
- deng 1y agoFrom 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.
- JeremyNT 1y ago> 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895718
- kortilla 1y agoWell they also probably don’t want the reputation hit if the fork ends up doing some kind of rug pull.
- BitPirate 1y agoThe play store version isn't updated anymore. You should switch to F-Droid.