After a week of serious work on the mobile/desktop Friendica client it is now in a state where it has enough features for me to use this primarily for my fediverse/Friendica needs. It is still missing some major features, like the DMs feature. It is still completely stateless therefore it has some annoying issues of retaining things like known tags. There are some issues with server side things I'll need to address, like not really having pages on the follower/following end points. But it is feature complete enough for me to be able to do most of my things:
* Writing public posts/comments with tag and mention searching (just with local data), much easier adding of images to posts (especially with ALT text)
* Handling notifications (although Mastodon endpoint seems to be missing a bunch so need to fix that or go to Friendica version)
* Going directly to user's profile's posts timeline to see more of their content
* Connecting with users and adjudicating connection requests from them.
* Gallery browsing (but not editing)

There is still a lot more to do but big blockers in the short term are:
* Come up with a real name. "Friendica Portal" isn't going to cut it since this isn't an official Friendica project. I'm very open to suggestions since I suck at naming
* Setup Google Store account and publish there in testing mode as well as with the Apple store TestFlight (already there)

After that it is on to implementing missing big features like the DMs, implementing some persistence, fixing server side bugs/needed features, internationalization, and the usual death by 1000 cuts of development :). #friendica #FriendicaDev #programming #fediverse