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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)
• 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
• Only first photo attachment in post is shown, click for more images and fullscreen image
• Click on 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
• Click on post text opens conversation
• Deletion, Reposting, Answering of Posts
• Expand truncated news items
• Liking, disliking
• 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,smileys
• Send image(s) 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)
• 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
• Follow/unfollow or block/unblock contacts
• Search for new contacts according to topic
• Show follow requests; approve, deny, ignore requests
• 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
• 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 own images to local directory (API is currently broken)
• Upload public picture to album with descriptions, send from gallery (API is currently broken)
• 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 albums and images of contacts
• Pinch to zoom, swipe to scroll

ToDo:

• Upload private images

Events

Currently supported:

• Show own events
• Show public events of Friendica contacts
• List view of events of selected date
• Click on event to show details
• Create event
• Delete event

ToDo

• Show more details and attendance of events (needs API)

Config/Accounts

Currently supported:

• Multiple accounts
• Dark Mode
• View mode for news (conversation tree or timeline)
• Maximum news (deleted after use of Quit button)
• Sync home timeline, replies, DM, Events, friend requests; Notify yes/no
• Hide #nsfw
• OAuth2 as authorization method

Other

• on Linux: App stays in systemtray and syncs in background
• Autostart minimized in systray possible

ToDo

• Video tab
• Translation
• Blingbling

Translations

• German, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Dutch
• To contribute translations: https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/friendiqa/friendiqa/

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
• Arch User Repository: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/friendiqa/
• Flatpak: https://friendiqa.ma-nic.de/friendiqa.flatpakref
• Flatpak for Mobile Linux: https://friendiqa.ma-nic.de/friendiqaMobile.flatpakref

License

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