I know it might not be annoying to some people but is there a way to get rid of the notification of syncthing in the notification bar on Android. If you disable the notification you can’t open the app unless you re enable notifications. With the original Syncthing Android app. You didn’t have to have the notification up there.
Hi.
I don’t use the Android app anymore so I can’t say a certain if this will work for you but here is what my research has found.
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Hi Wank,
Thanks for the input but that doesn’t work as there are no categories. Like i had said the original app didn’t need the notification visible and I never had issues with the app not running.
I don’t think this was really the case. Maybe the app didn’t specifically prevent you from hiding it via the OS settings, but then Syncthing would get killed once there was not enough RAM to run it. This is how Android works, and the persistent notification is there to tell it that the app should stay running in background, and if there is not enough memory, other apps (without such notifications) will be killed first.
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I’ m telling you i had the notification disabled in the old one. I just switched to from the original to fork this week. I use syncthing basically daily and never had to open up the app on my phone to get anything to sync. When I did look at the app I was able to go right in and was not blocked by asking for permission for notifications. You do realize that you do not need a notification to keep apps always syncing right. That’s the point of unrestricted battery access. My phone doesn’t run out of ram. I have 12gb and usual 4-5gb available at all times.
I’m quite certain that the app did not have such an option. You might have used the OS settings to “hide” the notification, but this wasn’t a supported setting within the Syncthing app.
The battery settings aren’t really related to the issue of the app being killed when Android runs out of memory. I think it’s simply that with so much RAM, the OS was able to keep the app running despite having no persistent notification present.
Just speaking for myself, but honestly, I wouldn’t count on any change in this aspect (unless you modify the source code yourself). Most users haven’t got 12 GB of RAM, and Syncthing with no persistent notification will end up getting killed in typical circumstances. Having persistent notifications is also the standard behaviour of applications that need to stay running in background (e.g. email clients, real-time communicators, VPN software, Termux, etc.).
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