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Comment by jsiepkes | Hacker News Reader

There is an Android Syncthing fork [1] which is active and 1.3K stars (for whatever that's worth).

[1] https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android

Good to know, although the Readme says:

"Planning to close my Google Play Developer Account. Please say hi if you are interested in obtaining the latest gplay release files from me to help in publishing this app."

It's on f-droid rather than google play.

I think for the people interested in using Syncthing rather than Dropbox or Google's syncing option, that's not _that_ much of a problem.

I'm always happy to see F-Droid exclusive apps. Gives Google less power over what they can do.

It's going to be much less of a problem for everyone, with these draconian Play policies, as I imagine more and more people will be installing F-droid.

F-Droid is not allowed if you use Google Advanced Security on your account. :( You have to side-load.

as far as i know f-droid is using the same mechanism to install apps as would any other app (though i remember reading that this wasn't always the case and that it switched to the standard mechanism at some point), like a filemanager. either an app can invoke the installation or it can't. there should be nothing in f-droid that would make installation any different.

Hmm, what's GAS?

I've been using that one for a long time now. I recall that when I got started with Syncthing (some months to a year or two ago?), it seemed to have been the folk wisdom to use Syncthing-Fork, but I don't recall what the reason was.

For me, I'm pretty sure it had something to do with better and more granular run conditions on folders.

Weirdly enough, I cannot find either on Play right now..even though I have it (the original, I believe) installed through Play.

> Head to the "releases" section or F-Droid for builds.

It's in the description on GitHub. Get F-Droid.

Seems to work. Exported the config of the other one and imported it in this one. Seems all the settings are there. Sync seems to work too. Kudos to the devs.

Yep, that's what I use. Very happy with it for years!

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