Per the GitHub readme:
This app is discontinued. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing version. Interactions (issues, PRs) are limited now, and the entire repo will be archived after the last release. Thus all contributions are preserved for any future (re)use. The forum is still open for discussions and questions. I would kindly ask you to refrain from trying to challenge the decision or asking “why-type” questions - I wont engage with them.
The 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!
This is extremely disappointing news. I have been using the Syncthing-Fork version, but since it is based on this app, this may be the end for that app as well.
Bummer, it’s one of my favorite apps =(
Have this on all my devices to sync wallpapers. Such a shame when developers burn out
What’s your workflow for syncthing & applying wallpapers? Do you use tasker alongside synthing to sync and auto apply a new but same wallpaper on all your devices?
I use it for my Obsidian/Logseq markdown notes :0
I truly hope the developer can have a nice break from this.
Hopefully Syncthing-Fork will still be maintained somewhat, and remains available through F-Droid…
Google holds way too much power and takes too many arbitrary decisions… including the absurdity of asking for a absurdly expensive and time-consuming security audit for Google Drive access, which as far as I’m aware is not a thing for other cloud storage services like Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.
It’s why I can’t wait for a truly open mobile OS that I’d feel comfortable running as a daily driver for work critical applications.
That’s a bummer. I’ve been using the forked version as well, and even that dev has been annoyed with Google Play enough that it’s only released on F-Droid nowadays.
Personally, I don’t think it’s an issue only releasing only on F-Droid, because the people interested in Syncthing wouldn’t be deterred by that if they’re not already using it, but I totally get why that might sap the last bit of motivation the dev has.
