>The biggest bummer is that there's no iOS client.
NextCloud integrates into iOS's Files app pretty tightly as a 'storage provider' or whatever Apple calls it. End result is that my password database is magically up-to-date whenever I go to use it in my password manager, probably because Files sees an app trying to access the file, pings NextCloud to say "yo, is this shit up to date?", and then my password manager opens the file. I don't have to worry myself about background sync and such.
I didn't have to do jack shit to open the database the first time; the built-in iOS file-picker that came up let me select nextcloud as a source, and then my password database. Done. It is two taps to get that database open now - one to hit "passwords" in the keyboard area, and the second is me TouchID'ing to unlock the database.
Looking over the Mobius faq, it appears to be vastly inferior, with no guarantee your files are synced at any point in time, and you have to manually push files from Mobius to Files, and then access them in apps from there:
> iOS apps cannot access each others’ files. This means you will need to copy files in and out of Syncthing using the Apple Files app.
I wouldn't do that even if the software was free. And they want me to pay for that? No?
A better way should be creating a whitelist of apps that can access the storage of other apps. Gpx tracker app? Add Syncthing to its whitelist, and the file manager I use instead of the system one.
Why isn't this a lawsuit yet?
It's not like Apple specifically advertised background services, then lied about it.
The device is specifically built like that, and you can buy a different phone if it's that big of an issue.
It feels like complaining your toaster doesn't have a dark enough toast setting that you want. Is there a lawsuit in that?
- I can't change my car's satnav. You can buy another car if it's that big a deal.
I think we can agree, the above statement reads silly.
Sometimes, no matter the deal size - buying a new thing isn't always a reasonable option.
If you really care about replacing parts in your car like the satnav, should you need to do research before buying instead of assuming it works that way?
Or should we have rules that all sat navs need to be replaceable so consumers don't need to do that?
I honestly can't draw the line myself, I just try my best to identify what I want in a product before purchasing. Especially huge purchases like a car.
We see a NextCloud dev explaining that background uploads don't work herehttps://github.com/nextcloud/ios/issues/215
And we can see syncthing devs lamenting the many issues with an iOS client here https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/102
It may be the case that file eventing now works, but a quick check with an iOS dev friend suggests that the filesystem sandboxing is too restrictive to be meaningful anyway.
Further on this issue, consider that a functioning syncthing client is a node in a p2p network, so must be able to advertise and listen to requests in the background as well as the background jobs that NextCloud requires (as NextCloud is centralised it doesn't need node level co-ordination) - so a partially working NextCloud client is good enough, but a partially working Syncthing client is woefully broken.
The difference is that instead of having an ever-running daemon, the developer schedules tasks with the system, and system decides when to run them based on network availability, battery charge, etc as well as the app’s behavior (badly written/inefficient background tasks and frequent high intensity task requests are penalized).
What does it do if you're not connected? Don't mind it checking whether the local copy is up to date, but I'd be concerned if the sync trigger is you opening the app.
Works flawlessly, is rather cheap, and the developers encourage donations to the main SyncThing project.
I usually sync PDF and epub files to my iPad and open them directly from the sync folder in Apple Books.