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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!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

No one says you have to upgrade your phone OS to the latest Android. You can just keep using the Android (and/or Custom ROM) that works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sure, but what about security? Not that I haven't had to use outdated phones before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Security is not a state but a scale, and is gauged against everything else.

From the perspective of a privacy / security zealot, a smartphone is SOL as soon as they lave the factory, as not only not even OTA updates keep them safe (and you can argue that with some manufacturers such as Samsung, OTA does is the primary risk vector!) but they can eg.: ship with unfixable vulns at the hardware level that would lead to ditch the whole thing anyway.

So long as there isn't something like a state-funded program for citizens to renew their phones every ~2 years for fully open ones, I'd not worry much. After all, the other option would be not using a phone because current ones are a PITA and just as vulnerable from the other end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

IMHO some update is better than no update at all!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah totally. But while one could argue we are owed security, we are not owed updates. (And when we do, they're offered to us via "buy another phone", such is Capitalism).