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Without programming skills that will be difficult... and I think contributing to existing projects is probably more worthwhile than starting yet another client.
At least for the desktop PC the new UI for Gajim will be really nice and should arrive sometimes soon.
As for Android, I don't see much wrong with Conversations / Blabber.im.
I think some of the features people are asking for are a bit beyond mere client implementation and rather need an agreement on how to implement that first. For example message reactions and stickers exists in Movim, but no other modern client implements these, so they tend to be invisible to a large part of the users of a channel.
Yeah, I first (months ago) tried to contribute to some such projects as Blabber, but they didn't go into implementing my proposal, whether because they didn't want to focus their project in that way, whether because it was actually difficult implementing my proposals due to the current code-structure their projects have
I didn't know about the new UI for Gajim, and I really like it, thanks for telling about it!
Conversations and all its forks are good in fact, but they lack a modern/comfortable user interface and functionalities:
I believe that some clients have implemented them, and I don't know them. I didn't use Movim until now because it doesn't work to me well (I can't still add a node of my choice).
The reason I thought about creating a client from scratch is to avoid problems that appear when you use another's base: they limit what can you do.