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Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

22 mentions on Hacker News by 22 people: 2 stories, 20 comments · first 2018-08-10 · latest 2025-12-07

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  1. …away from the previously official Play store app (v 1.27.3) [0] archived on 2024-12-03. [0]: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android
  2. …Syncthing already abandoned their Android app because of this nonsense (as jfim pointed out: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064 )
  3. …its Android app due to issues with getting the proper permissions with the play store (see https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064 ).
  4. Note that work on the official android app is discontinued https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android --- "Discontinued This app is discontinued. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing…
    comment by air3y · 2025-03-02 · in Calendar.txt
  5. …it's client app has been removed from Google Play [1]. I am managing with Syncthing-Fork. [1] https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064
  6. …tools to make it easier for low-budget apps like Syncthing to meet their quality standards.) [1]: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/1048#i...
    comment by Ajedi32 · 2024-10-21 · in Syncthing Android App Discontinued
  7. It's discontinued, period ( https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064#i... ). The fork seems to be fine currently though.
  8. At least the Play Store version has: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064 But isn't https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid... still being kept up-to-date? I switched to f-droid at least, remember…
  9. …files Syncthing-android is already written in Java, so shouldn't there already be JNI glue code? https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android
    comment by ihuman · 2024-10-20 · in Syncthing Android App Discontinued
  10. From the (current) final comment at https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/2064 > Nothing came of the discussions with google. Demands by Google for changes to get the permission granted were vague, which makes it both…
    comment by jasonjayr · 2024-10-20 · in Syncthing Android App Discontinued
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    Syncthing Android App Discontinued
    story by BitPirate · 2024-10-20 · 2 comments
  12. ▲ 74
    Google Play rejecting app update without substantive reason
    story by proactivesvcs · 2024-07-11 · 20 comments
  13. > In addition I learned that in Android SyncThing cannot sync to an external SD card ( https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/1366 ) . This should be fixed: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/pull/1724
  14. …being so difficult to work with in Go. It sounds like this is being resolved in Android 10 upwards: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/wiki/Frequent...
  15. …didn't sync. In addition I learned that in Android SyncThing cannot sync to an external SD card ( https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/1366 ) . I ended up uploading the file to Google Drive and using it's client. It works…
  16. …[2] https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/manage-a... [3] https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/1638
  17. Android filesystem permissions. https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/wiki/Frequent... https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/1008 https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/1366…
    comment by snerbles · 2021-07-23 · in Syncthing: Syncing All the Things
  18. …systems are turning into gatekeepers between developers/users and the hardware they "own". [0]: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/29 [1]: https://www.xda-developers.com/android-q-storage-access-fram... [2]:…
  19. …that Syncthing will stop working[0, 1]. Though it seems there might be hope in Android 11[2]? [2] https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/29 [1] https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/issues/457 [2]…
    comment by codethief · 2020-05-19 · in Termux and Android 10
  20. …) and they document the issue and known workarounds to sharing from external SD-cards on Android: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/wiki/Frequent...
  21. …first in order for them to properly propagate to all my other devices. Here is the related issue: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/29
  22. There's syncthing for Android: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android