Actually, the developer hasn't done much with it over the years. I've been using this product for other purposes for several years now and right now the rclone software version is about a year out of date even though it still works.
It would be great if somewhere in here in this forum there was an experienced Android developer that had the Android developer kit or could load it because I recompiled round sync once on my own and did it for the purpose of upgrading the rclone version and it worked only I have no recollection how I did it and I did have questions that I asked of the developer and he answered some of them otherwise I wouldn't have gotten it working by myself because I'm not a developer.
When you go into the Android developer Studio there's an option to specify the version number of rclone that you want and you enter instead of the number that's there the one that is the current release on the internet.
The other option would be to ask the developer of rsaf if he would be willing to consider adding the serve feature to his product. It may not be that difficult. I'm considering asking the developer to think it over.
I have a developer edition of Windows 11 So I'm going to follow the instructions I got from chat GPT Loading all of the software that I am required to do in order to recompile Round sink with new rclone version .
UPDATE
My efforts to rebuild round sink with a new version of rclone has failed I don't know enough about what I'm doing.
Ah ok, I saw it’s been around a long time and there were changes in the last 6 months, so it looks like a ‘maintained’ app, but maybe not an actively maintained app. What benefits are there to using the latest version of rclone?
EDIT: Actually, the last commit in the repo was last month, with the commit message ‘update rclone’, which updates the version to 1.70.2 according to the commit. So it’s only .1 of a version behind, but a new release has not been made
Well, If you go to the projects GitHub releases page the most recent update is 11 months ago.
Rclone has had many bug fixes applied in the last year that I think are important to include in Roundsync.
As far as whether or not it truly matters for everybody the answer is I don't know. I think that if the remote that you have need for is there it's not a big deal if it's a little out of date unless there are some bugs that I'm not aware of.
What it's going to take at this point is for a few people to test it out and put it through it's Paces. I'm trying to do a sync of several megabytes between my phone and my PC over SMB and it's taking more time than it should.
The developer does seem to be slow to build new versions of the app, but you can just try building the latest version of the code yourself. Note that the resulting apk will have a different signing key to the one used for the app stores, so you would have to uninstall the app from your phone, before installing your own built version, to get it to work. And also you wont be able to receive automatic updates with your own built app
Actually what I did is I emailed the developer of round sink yesterday and I got a reply back from him today and I need to send him a follow-up email posting on GitHub a request for the procedure to rebuild the software with a new version of rlone and he said sure So hopefully I will be learning shortly how to make a new build.
I spend hours asking chat GPT to help me rebuild and I couldn't figure it out.
UPDATE
I figured out how to build or compile a new APK file with the current version of rclone.
I have Android SMB syncing successfully to my Windows computer which is essentially the same as a Western Digital My Drive.
I'm using the program called round sync which supports SMB and can mount your storage on the Western Digital and then you tell it that you want to serve a folder over webdav.
Then you tell Joplin that you want to sink Target of webdav and the address will be http://localhost
It does what cifs can do in terms of connecting and mounting your storage it's just the Joplin can't talk to it directly but it can talk webdav.
WDMyCloud is an OS5 system and doesn’t support WebDAV but supports SMB.
I don’t know how to establish the sync between WDMyCloud and my Pixel phone. Can you give me instructions in detail? It’s better if you could give me the process step-by-step.
Here is nutshell style instructions overview. I used round sink to create an SMB connection or remote to my Windows computer which would be your Western Digital My Drive.
Then I chose to serve those files over webdav and took note of the web URL.
Then I told Joplin that my sync Target was webdav and gave it the URL that round sync provided.
That should be full synchronization with no limits.