Friendica is a great decentralized social network. For android smartphones there are several clients available. For example there is the Friendica App for Android and Mustard (a StatusNet/Twitter client that can also be used with Friendica). Now it is also possible to run Friendica with in my opinion the best Twitter client for Android available, called Twidere. In this short tutorial you will see, how do it:

If you don’t have Twidere on your phone already, get it from the Google play store or from F-Droid, if you don’t use Google services on your phone (thumbs up in that case).

Open Twidere and create a new account by clicking on “Add Account” in the main menu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click on the network symbol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Add the address of your friendica server plus /api, f.e. https://www.snarl.de/api if you have a user account on snarl.de.

Then choose Basic for Auth type.

Click OK.

 

 

 

 

Enter your credentials: Username and password.

Click Sign in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here comes the funny part:

Open your phone keyboard and dial *#*#8943373#*#*
to access a secret settings page of Twidere.

Note: On tablets you will need to use something like the SecretCodes Launcher. In this app you must enter the number only. Omit the *#*#-stuff.

On the secret settings page do the following:

 

 

Enable the option Force using private APIs.

Optional: Define a different text limit clicking on Tweet text limit as friendica is not limited to 140 characters as Twitter is.

 

 

 

 

 

That’s it! Enjoy Friendica with your Twidere App.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This tutorial is based on the knowledge Michael Vogel dropped in a Friendica Support group thread. I just did the screenshots and the editing. Thanks Michael!

How to use Friendica with Twidere by Hauke Altmann is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.