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Native Android app incoming too?
Android app was discontinued a long time ago due to lack of developers and Google Play shenanigans.
Well, we are lucky we have Synching-Fork!
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid
Sure. Is this viable long term? Why was it forked? Will it even work with 2.0?
The original was a battery-life vampire and had fewer features. I don't know if it will work with 2.0, though, which is why I'm waiting for an update or 2 on that side before taking the plunge on desktop.
One thing's for sure, though; I'm dead meat if one of them fails. (Well, not entirely; I suppose I could painstakingly create a file-transferring script to "sync" stuff, but it'd take quite a while.)
With open source you never have a guarantee for long-term support. I guess it was forked because the original app was not maintained anymore?
Idk about 2.0, but I am using this app for a year now. It got 3 updates last month
It was forked before the previous one died funnily enough
Not like you have that with closed source …
Yeah that's the thing. I can't be dependent on such a thing that very well might stop functioning at any time. The fact that it's not first-party does not fill me with confidence.
Well then you you need to pay for proprietary software or give your data to Google and friends.
There is no such thing aa "first party" in most open source projects. This repo has contributions by 111 different developers at the moment.
No. No I sure don't.
There is. It's the original development team of the project.
All to the same first-party SyncThing repo.
The one that got discontinued, you mean? It didn't matter that it was "first party" as it still got the axe. This fork has existed for multiple years now, and may end up having a longer life than the "first party" one had.
This is not uncommon in the open source space.
Yes I do remember saying that a few hours ago.
You can "may" anything you want.
Good job avoiding my point entirely :)
I didn't avoid your point at all.
I wasn't discussing what "may" happen. I was discussing what's more likely to happen.
That's still something that may happen. Just because you think that third party is more likely to go away doesn't mean it will happen. So yes, you completely avoided my point and continue to do so. You even used "might" earlier. That sounds a lot like may to me.
I give up.
I'm still using the old app, it may lack some new features, but it was already good enough