just installed it and looks great! Especially that you can add remote devices as well
One little annoyance though : could you make the default setting to always run instead of inly when app is open? I was setting it up freshly and always got the message that syncthing was down after switching to my notepad to cut and paste remote id’s and switching back to syncthing. After switching to always run everything seems ok.
@Zillode, do you know why the guys from OpenSilk don’t look at their issue tracker? It doesn’t make sense to file bug reports or suggestions if nobody will look at them. The ST team put a lot of traction on the issue trackers, which motivates us users to test stuff and report what we find. But the OpenSilk team doesn’t seem to care, they seem to have left the client hanging out to die, and are not interested in feedback.
@Zillode, an inevitable question: if the silk client can achieve such good CPU usage, what is the official client doing so different to get such bad CPU usage? The contrast is even sharper if we take into account that the official client relies on inotify, whereas the silk client has to rely on frequent rescanning: this alone would lead one to expect the silk client to eat up more CPU, but it doesn’t by very very far.
No idea, just be a bit patient. I think the open issue is solved with the updated version because it works for me. The guy is also updating Syncthing as new features arrive which is nice. I guess there is no time for support at the moment.
Syncthing-android asks Syncthing to compute the completion status every few seconds (Rest API). This requires Syncthing to loop (currently even multiple times) over the entire database to check if files are needed from other clients.
The Silk client uses a new Event API of Syncthing which broadcasts updates. This means that Syncthing announces the completion status as soon as files arrive. Syncthing-android could also use this API but it requires a little work.
Because the new Syncthing-android app enforces TLS. This is necessary to protect Android’s sandboxing mechanism.
The Silk client needs this as well, but the CPU impact will be smaller because the connection stays open.
As for the bug report, I closed the original one I submitted since, as @Zillode says, it seems to be working just fine now. But I opened a new one . Anyway, regardless of whether or not OpenSilk has time to answer the issues (or address them) I guess that is the best place to report them. And, I should say, I am really happy with the app.
I installed the apk in a device that did not have this client previously. It created keys, etc. Then I imported the config (a zip file containing the cert.pem, key.pem and config.xml files). The UI, however, seems forever stuck trying to start; it is still showing the device name pre-importation of config and giving the “Syncthing seems to be off or there is a problem with your internect connection”. The funny thing, though, is that it is really working just fine most of the time (it is syncing with other devices, the other devices see it with the right version, and I can operate from the Web GUI, changing folder settings, etc).
I turned off and on the phone, but it did not help.
This is probably my ignorance showing, but here it goes. With the official ST android app I was keeping all the data under Android/data/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid. This, I understand, is about the easiest way to avoid the infamous mtimes issue ( https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/831). I am now running the Silk client in three Androids, but the data are still in the same place (Android/data/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid). And things keep working just fine.
A few questions then:
Is this expected to happen?
If I were to remove the official client, and to do it cleanly, the directory Android/data/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid would be removed. Or, for that matter, if someone were to install from the start only the Silk client, I guess that directory would not exist. Where should we place the data to circumvent the mtimes issue? /data/data/syncthing.android/ does not seem the right place (and cannot be modified unless one is rooted).