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thomblesyesterday at 11:26 AM2 repliesview on HN

This is also why the official SyncThing Android app stopped being distributed. There is a fork but it's not available on the Play Store.


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dengyesterday at 11:32 AM

The problem with the SyncThing Android app is that it's just a wrapper around SyncThing, which is a Go library, but SAF does not give you simple file descriptors you can use in native code. Instead, you get "content://" URLs, and you need a Java/Kotlin bridge to convert these to file descriptors. That would need to be done in SyncThing itself (EDIT: or some other trickery, because it seems like syncthing-fork made it work somehow).

However, AFAIK, this problem would not apply to the NextCloud app.

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fshyesterday at 12:34 PM

The fork is in the play store and works fine for me on Android 15: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.cat...

I was a bit surprised that the official client suddenly disappeared though.

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