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
Just as I start using it bruh
Anyone have any good readings or discussions on what Google Play policies are being cited here as the major obstacle? Just curious to learn more.
Edit: 20 testers policy? Sounds onerous.
the fork version works fine. if that dies, i’m hopeful some new fork will emerge. syncthing is well known and used by many, so i think as long as the original software is alive, there’ll be a way to use it on your phone. heck, there’s ways to run syncthing on a pocketbook e-reader, lol
I installed from fdroid, I expect it to be still available as far as it will work…
And I guess somebody will build and keep publishing it just not on google play, which is anyway a cesspool nowadays, so no big deal.
Apparently publishing malware and the likes is quite easy, but publishing well-established foss software isn’t.
