Syncthin on Android, discontinued

I belive many of us here might be using Syncthing on Android.

I just accidentally stumbled upon an github issue Official Syncthing Android App will be discontinued · Issue #1149 · Catfriend1/syncthing-android · GitHub then followed discussion here Discontinuing syncthing-android - #19 by stone - Announce - Syncthing Community Forum

So if you are using Syncthing, it might be worth it to switch to the Syncthing-fork.
Only if you trust the maintainer, he made the wrapper for his personal needs and suddenly might have become more in focus.

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I missed this. Thanks for posting. This will probably get me to fully commit to going over to NextCloud. I was mainly using syncthing to keep my music and pictures synced between devices, but as of late I’ve been needing more functionality.

I am going to check out the fork though. Glad to see the fork dev being into working on Android going forward. Seems like a nice dude. I will check out more of his work and see if I find any security issues. I’ll post a reply if I see anything.

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Syncthing-fork has been OK for me in the past 2 months, but I’ve backed-up the APK from F-Droid in case I need to side-load again.

The updates in the fork include an improved WebGUI, but sometimes the WebGUI is aware of things the native Android client isn’t.

K3n.

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True, I actually would be ok with just running the binary and controling it via the WebGUI.

I don’t have faith in the termux running the binary in the background. Sounds that to keep it alive I would have to make sure the termux to somehow never sleep and receive notifications about connectivity to know when to shut it off and restart.

The fork works nicely for me :slight_smile: