Not sure about the new app. For now I switched to SyncthingTray.
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I'm not sure that there is a consensus at this time. After reading some conflicting information, I opted to install syncthing via the F-Droid version of Termux until things settle down. When I run it in a terminal the default browser opens the web interface and I'm good to go from there. Power management is not great, but it works and runs the current version of syncthing.
I've been using Syncthink-Fork via obtanium (Catfriend1 repo or somesuch) without issue.
What's the drama?
Tldr catfriend redirected the repo to an identical one owned by a new GitHub account, including the signing keys. So obtainium will update to any new version with no issues, but it's not the same developer. Said developer did not give much detail about the handover and even had the GH issues closed for some time. So there is some doubt about whether they should be trusted right away. If you want to go through the full thread: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661
I have personally paused auto-updates and will swap to the experimental syncthing-tray builds when I have time.
Oh damn, this is more of a headache than I expected.
I'll take a look at termux and syncthing-tray when I have time for that.
I already had a cursory glance, and syncthing-tray seems to have a lot of caveats and syncthing on termux is not quite the gui-app I wanted. But at least there are some apps even if they aren't ideal yet.
I thought the entire issue was with catfriend1 handing over the repo and everyone in the dark as to whom, or why, or anything.