cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21070831
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!
Releasing apks in github isn’t a viable option? Syncthing without the android app is pretty much pointless.
As far as I understand, they don’t want to publish new releases there because there’s nothing new to release, and they don’t have resources to maintain it