Any Plans to release APK outside of Play Store for Android?

[imsodin (Simon)]

@gbsyncthing

However, are there roadblocks to releasing the updated apks in the download section so that we can directly install/sideload?

The reasoning from the original annoucement still answers that:

@imsodin

[…] The app saw no significant development for a long time and without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance an app requires even without doing much, if any, changes.

@gbsyncthing

The last version currently works for me but I am afraid at some point there will be incompatibilities with the OSX version that will break basic functionality that I use on a daily basis.

I do not recommend to keep using that. Transitioning to a maintained alternative is seamless - you find info on that in the announcement thread (among a few other places): Discontinuing syncthing-android