"The 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."

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[–] tehfishman@lemmy.world 41 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Seems like it will be around for some time, based on the developers comments

Hi, Syncthing-Fork is a personal project, originally meant to keep the Android app alive for my friends and family. I've shared this work from the very beginning and will do so when I hit the code for updates. I will primarily do compatibility with the Android phones "we" use here, so that's currently the range from Android 10 to 14. Feature development is currently not on my roadmap. I myself use the app and depend on the availability of Syncthing on the Android platform for my own workflows. You're welcome to use the releases on F-Droid or my GitHub if you like the fork. Kind regards, Catfriend1

Per GitHub

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

Thank you, that's helpful to know!