Publishing in the Play Store

[cceckman]

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.

Hi! (And happy holidays!)

I've been using the now-deprecated official Syncthing app on Android for a while. I think there's a lot of value in supporting the OEM-blessed path for installation -- where it's easy to get my family (and their employers applying device policy) on board.

I'd like to hear more about the pain points you've experienced in publishing to the Play Store, and if there's ways others (me?) can help. (If you'd rather have an offline / private conversation, feel free to e-mail.)

Thank you for maintaining Syncthing-Fork!

[Catfriend1]

Hi,

Death date for the fork on gplay will be 20th Feb 2025. Except anyone takes over the app by transfer to his gplay dev account. Do you want to do that?

Your reason is understandable. That's why I entered gplay years ago. But getting updates blocked, recurring policy reviews with different endings about the same permission topic, (...) is no fun for me investing free time.

What needs to be done from my perspective:

• fork this repo
• add code for feature reduction if gplay review was unsuccessful to the gplay build flavor and then push those changes back via PR here.
• build from this repo once a month for a gplay release.
• direct gplay users to another issue tracker, because they're wasting my time with support requests that were play-restricted

I understand totally if that's not fun for you or anyone else either :-).