Friendiqa

QML based client for the Friendica Social Network. Tabs for news (incl. Direct Messages), friends, photos and events. OS: currently Linux and Android (4.3 Jelly Bean, 5.1 for background sync). Source code is a QtCreator project.

Screenshots

Features

News

Currently supported:

• Shows Posts from friends, replies, Direct Messages and notifications (in swipe view), selected group, replies, favorited messages, public timeline
• Background sync with configurable interval of 15 min to 2h for active user for friends timeline, replies and DMs (Android 5.1 required, doesn't work in Android >8)
• Android notifications or Dbus notification (Linux) for new items in friends timeline, replies and DMs
• Search for news
• Click on hashtag in newsitem starts search for news with that word
• Click on image shows image fullscree
• Click on video or youtube video shows video fullscreen
• For news containing urls ending with mp3, mp4, avi, webm, ogg or to a Peertube instance: media can be played in the app
• Open links in external browser
• Click on contact photo for contact details and last news
• Click on like text for additional contact info
• Deletion, Reposting, Answering of Posts
• Expand truncated news items
• Liking, disliking, favoriting
• Attending for event posts
• Update fetches new posts (up to last 50) since last in local DB
• More shows older posts from local DB
• Create new Message with images or direct messages, Contact/Group access rights (can be stored), smileys
• Send image from Android gallery
• Send text or urls from other apps to Friendiqa
• Native Android image dialog

ToDo:

• Videos and other binary data as attachment (sending, not supported in API)
• More than one attachment
• Attachments for Direct messages (currently not supported in API)

Friends

Currently supported:

• Tabs for own profiles, friends, other contacts and groups
• Show profile(s) of user and change profile picture
• List of all known contacts with locally downloaded pictures
• Additional information, last messages and other functionality shown in news tab
• Show public and private pictures of contact (screenscraping of contact's website, works only with certain theme)
• Show public and private events of contact
• Show members of groups
• Open website of contact or connect page (for other contacts)
• Clean other contacts with no news

ToDo:

• More information for contact from description page, possibly private information for friends (needs API change)
• Groups: create, change, delete (needs API change)

Images

Currently supported:

• Download public and private own images to local directory
• Upload picture to album with descriptions(public), send from gallery
• Delete own pictures and albums on client and server
• Change name or album of existing picture
• Show albums in grid, show images in album in grid and fullscreen
• Show public and private (Friendica 3.6 server required) albums and images of contacts
• Pinch to zoom, swipe to scroll

ToDo:

• Upload private images

Events

Currently supported:

• Download own public events
• Show public and private events of Friendica contacts (Friendica >3.6 server required)
• List view of events of selected date
• Click on event to show details

ToDo

• Show own private events (needs API)
• Create events (needs API)

Config/Accounts

Currently supported:

• Multiple accounts
• View mode for news (tree or timeline)
• Maximum news (deleted after use of Quit button)
• Sync home timeline, replies, DM, Notify yes/no

ToDo

• OAuth?

Other

ToDo

• Video tab
• Translation
• Blingbling

Translations

• German, Spanish, Italian
• To contribute translations: Have a look at linux-sources/translations/friendiqa-de.ts and open it with an editor. It's an xml file. Change values and send me the file/do pull request.

Install

• F-Droid binary repository: https://www.ma-nic.de/fdroid/repo or for those who get the "error getting index file" from F-Droid client due to outdated crypto libraries the url without encryption: http://www.ma-nic.de/fdroid/repo To include repo in Fdroid: Open config --> package sources --> plus symbol --> paste url
• Google Playstore

License

Pubished under the GPL v3 with the exception of the Openssl library, which is published under OpenSSL License.