droidVNC-NG VS syncthing-android

droidVNC-NG, a VNC server for Android (GitHub). Needs a VNC viewer on the PC.

Easier to just use DroidVNC without needing root and messy USB debug, FOSS https://github.com/bk138/droidVNC-NG

droidVNC-NG: VNC server app that does not require root privileges.

The Android VNC server project droidVNC-NG just reached version 1.0.0 and is now looking for contributors to further improve the code and add features. It's a VNC server using contemporary Android 5+ APIs and therefore does not require root access. GPL-2, mostly authored by me and named droidVNC-NG in reverence to the original droidVNC server.

Thank you for this. Just adding this here:

There seems to be an issue with recent Android apis that make file access painfully slow that it wasn't able to sync my data in 1 full day. Enabling the "Case Sensitive FS" option on the folder helped a lot.

https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/issues/1088#...

I've been using Obtainium to install Android apps from Github releases and automatically update them. It's worked great.

Syncthing's .apk release files can be found here: https://github.com/catfriend1/syncthing-android

I was browsing this thread to try to find a workaround. There seems to be a fork that you either have to install through fdroid or as an apk. https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/issues/1149#...

Yes, very sad.

Two alternatives exist:

1. Syncthing-Fork (https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android) - Works just like the official app. Install from F-Droid or GitHub. Single developer but active.

2. Syncthing in Termux - Run the actual Syncthing program in Termux. Takes more setup but uses the standard version.

The fork is easier to use, while Termux needs more setup but gives you the standard Syncthing experience.

Same! I use [syncthing-fork](https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android) to automate the process.

Been using catfriend1's Syncthing fork https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android for years. Works well.

Available on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncth...

The author of Syncthing-fork has actually said they've had similar problems with Google and believe it's only a matter of time before their app is locked in a similar way - so much so that they are planning to surrender their Play developer account:

https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android#about-play-s...

I use https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android which has an option to run only every X minutes of each hour, as a decent tradeoff.

This version also ships and Android Quick Settings tile that will start Syncthing for those X minutes and stop it outside of that schedule, so I'll hit the button as I'm putting on shoes to go out after making a shopping list on my phone or what have you