I’ve run into a few issues using the syncthing Android app, and every time I was able to solve the problem through the Web GUI in the app.
For example, I have a send-only folder on my PC and a receive-only folder on my Android device. The web GUI on the PC showed that the remote device had ~800 out of sync items, but on the Android side, the main GUI had no indication of any issues. However, opening the web GUI showed that these files had local modifications which were causing the desync seen on the PC.
I had some other issue a while ago (it may have been the same one) that similarly was not indicated in the native GUI. It seems like the information shown in the web GUI in the android app is more complete than in the native GUI. Given this, should the option to start directly into the web GUI be on by default? Or perhaps the native GUI can be enhanced to show some of this information.
Ah I just saw the announcement that the Android client is discontinued. There won’t be any future releases so this won’t get imeplemented. Still, hopefully this post helps some people solve the “files out of sync” issue on Android.
There’s still Catfriends variant of the syncthing app wrapper you can use. And from memory the feature was already there, somewhere in settings you could tell the app to go straight to web UI on open. Not sure if it’s in Catfriends app too, but I don’t see why not - worth digging through the menues
For the fork: Nope - as the wrapper interacts primarily with the config and using the web ui conflicts or breaks with that. I’ve already had versions years ago where the web ui button was removed. It only came back to get info “read only” that was not on the wrapper ui because not yet implemented.
