Hi all,
A new LibreOffice for Android app has been released today. If you're interested, please check it out and consider writing a review. I'm helping to promote the news for the Document Foundation and Collabora, who led development of the app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice
More about the app:
* Free Software license: MPL 2.0 [1] * Supports documents, spreadsheets and basic presentations * Handles ODF and MS Office files, including templates * Touch interface * Available from the Google Play store, apks via apk download sites [2] * Submitted to F-Droid app store * Currently beta status
Limitations:
* Doesn't support Android Honeycomb or below * Takes a lot of space (~140mb) * Built-in file viewer reads only internal SD storage * Can't open quite a few documents for various reasons
Hopefully there will be weekly updates to the app with improvements and some new features.
Best,
Sam.
1. http://apkleecher.com/ 2. https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/licenses/
Hello, how this compare with the "OpenDocument reader" of Thomas Taschauer (that,despite the name, can also do some basic edits) ?
Is this *the* "official" port ?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Thomas+Taschauer
On 21 January 2015 at 14:30, Sam Tuke contact@samtuke.com wrote:
Hi all,
A new LibreOffice for Android app has been released today. If you're interested, please check it out and consider writing a review. I'm helping to promote the news for the Document Foundation and Collabora, who led development of the app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice
More about the app:
- Free Software license: MPL 2.0 [1]
- Supports documents, spreadsheets and basic presentations
- Handles ODF and MS Office files, including templates
- Touch interface
- Available from the Google Play store, apks via apk download sites [2]
- Submitted to F-Droid app store
- Currently beta status
Limitations:
- Doesn't support Android Honeycomb or below
- Takes a lot of space (~140mb)
- Built-in file viewer reads only internal SD storage
- Can't open quite a few documents for various reasons
Hopefully there will be weekly updates to the app with improvements and some new features.
Best,
Sam.
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Hi Antonello,
Yes the new app is an official version of LibreOffice for Android. Other differences:
* OO Reader currently has more features * OO Reader includes in-app advertising in the Play Store version * LO Viewer uses LibreOffice, not OpenOffice code * LO Viewer has ~weekly releases * LO Viewer will become a full editor in time
I know more about LO Viewer than OO Reader, and may have missed other important differences (recommend you check the documentation of the latter).
Currently work is in progress to add editing features to LO Viewer as a result of The Document Foundation contracting companies to develop those features.
Both apps are in the F-Droid app store.
Best,
Sam.
On 10 February 2015 08:22:23 CET, "Antonello Lobianco (not reply)" blackhole@lobianco.org wrote:
Hello, how this compare with the "OpenDocument reader" of Thomas Taschauer (that,despite the name, can also do some basic edits) ?
Is this /the/ "official" port ?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Thomas+Taschauer
On 21 January 2015 at 14:30, Sam Tuke <contact@samtuke.com mailto:contact@samtuke.com> wrote:
Hi all,
A new LibreOffice for Android app has been released today. If you're interested, please check it out and consider writing a review. I'm helping to promote the news for the Document Foundation and Collabora, who led development of the app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice
More about the app:
* Free Software license: MPL 2.0 [1] * Supports documents, spreadsheets and basic presentations * Handles ODF and MS Office files, including templates * Touch interface * Available from the Google Play store, apks via apk download sites [2] * Submitted to F-Droid app store * Currently beta status
Limitations:
* Doesn't support Android Honeycomb or below * Takes a lot of space (~140mb) * Built-in file viewer reads only internal SD storage * Can't open quite a few documents for various reasons
Hopefully there will be weekly updates to the app with improvements and some new features.
Best,
Sam.
1. http://apkleecher.com/ 2. https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/licenses/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@fsfeurope.org mailto:Discussion@fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
Hi together,
# Sam Tuke contact@samtuke.com [10.02.2015 @ 11:28]:
Yes the new app is an official version of LibreOffice for Android. Other differences:
- OO Reader currently has more features
- OO Reader includes in-app advertising in the Play Store version
- LO Viewer uses LibreOffice, not OpenOffice code
- LO Viewer has ~weekly releases
- LO Viewer will become a full editor in time
I know more about LO Viewer than OO Reader, and may have missed other important differences (recommend you check the documentation of the latter).
I also have both apps. In addition to Sam's list: * Both have a similar performance in my tests * LO Reader needs much more disk space than OO Reader * OO Reader has some display problems with odt and ods files. For example missing page headers or wrong width of spreadsheet columns. * Vice versa I noticed no display bugs with LO Reader so far, even with more complex documents
Hopefully the space requirements do not grow too much in future versions of LO. If they can regulate that, it'll become a very good reader (and editor) indeed.
Best, Max
On 10 February 2015 at 12:15, Max Mehl max.mehl@fsfe.org wrote:
I also have both apps. In addition to Sam's list:
- Both have a similar performance in my tests
- LO Reader needs much more disk space than OO Reader
- OO Reader has some display problems with odt and ods files. For example missing page headers or wrong width of spreadsheet columns.
- Vice versa I noticed no display bugs with LO Reader so far, even with more complex documents
Hopefully the space requirements do not grow too much in future versions of LO. If they can regulate that, it'll become a very good reader (and editor) indeed.
Cutting the size down was one of the huge headaches in porting LO to Android. This work has been going on for *years* ...
There's more interesting technical details here: http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-01-21-android-viewer.html
Another effort is AndrOpenOffice, which is an Android port of Apache OpenOffice 3.4. It's not that great to use, but it does exist and work.
- d.