The Chess for Android update came out today, I recall its being deployed gradually and I tried the FICS support logging into FICS as my handle adammr and playing a game a guest. I left formula on connect at 5 0 u. Fun game and fun UI to play in. The board was fast and responsive and i liked the color scheme for legal moves that i had on that i think was default. The pieces were the Monge Fantasy set. Here is the game that i just played. I did manage a win
[pgn][Event "FICS unrated blitz game"]
[Site "FICS, San Jose, California USA"]
[Date "2019.04.19"]
[Time "05:31:05"]
[Round "-"]
[White "adammr"]
[Black "GuestJSHW"]
[WhiteElo "1030"]
[BlackElo "-"]
[TimeControl "300+0"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 a6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 h6 5. Bc4 d6 6. Qf3 Qe7 7. Nf5 Bxf5
8. Qxf5 g6 9. Qc8+ Qd8 10. Qxd8+ Kxd8 11. Bxf7 Nc6 12. O-O Nf6 13. Nc3 Ne5
14. Bd5 Nxd5 15. Nxd5 Kd7 16. Bf4 Bg7 17. Bxe5 Bxe5 18. c3 Rad8 19. f3 Kc8
20. a4 g5 21. h3 Rhg8 22. Ne7+ Kb8 23. Nxg8 Rxg8 24. Rac1 Bf4 25. Rc2 h5
26. g4 hxg4 27. fxg4 Rh8 28. Kg2 Rd8 29. h4 d5 30. hxg5 Bxg5 31. exd5 Rxd5
32. Rf5 Rxf5 33. gxf5 Kc8 34. Re2 Kd7 35. Kf3 c6 36. Kg4 Bf6 37. Kh5 b5
38. axb5 axb5 39. Kg6 Be7 40. Rxe7+ Kxe7 41. Kg7 c5 42. f6+ Ke6 43. f7 b4
44. cxb4 cxb4 45. f8=Q b3 46. Kg6 Kd5 47. Qe7 Kc4 48. Qc7+ Kd3 49. Qc5 Ke4
50. Qc3 Kf4 51. Qxb3 Ke4 52. Qc4+ Ke5 53. b4 Kd6 54. b5 Kd7 55. b6 Kd6 56. b7
Ke5 57. b8=Q#
{Black checkmated} 1-0[/pgn]
One thing i noticed is its a limited now to a play a game online interface. Now simple works and i know you said you wanted to keep it simple. Still for members of FICS who don't choose guest a possible thing to do is a few more features. Maybe a simple console popup that just dumps all FICS text into text view with scrolling with a typing area below for commands so that users could unlock more of FICS while still keeping it simple. However i like what you got now. It's going to be great for your users. A basic way to get quick games at a time control. I may try something like that.