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LibreOffice Beta Available for Android

127 points by samtuke 12y ago

MrSwagga 12y ago
Where is the source?
- chris_wot 12y ago
  Here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/?h=feature/tiled-editing http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/?h=feature/... Edit: sorry, I mispeak, look at master - http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/android/experimental/LOAndroid3 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/android/ex...
chris_wot 12y ago
The amount of blood, sweat and tears that have been put into getting this together is remarkable. :-)
- samtuke 12y ago
  Getting five different companies to come together to make something useful is pretty challenging ;)
  - chris_wot 12y ago
    More sweat, less blood and tears I hope :-)
Bill_Dimm 12y ago
Not to diminish the accomplishment, but the press release title says "...make LibreOffice Beta available..." whereas it is apparently a LibreOffice viewer, not full-blown LibreOffice.
- TronPaul_ 12y ago
  I was all excited until I read that on the Google Play page for the app.
- chris_wot 12y ago
  Ah, but it will be a full-blown app - the plumbing is there :-) If you want a better breakdown, check out Michael Meeks writeup: https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-01-21-android-viewer.html https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-01-21-android-vi...
  - zokier 12y ago
    I wonder how much of the tech stuff like tiled rendering is going to live on separate branch, and how much will be merged to mainline desktop libreoffice.
    - chris_wot 12y ago
      It should all get merged eventually.
krylon 12y ago
Call me old-fashioned. Maybe it's just that both my smartphone and my tablet really suck (in terms of having a small display and a really slow CPU), but I don't really see myself trying to do actual work on a tablet/smartphone. Office applications are pretty keyboard-heavy, and with the on-screen keyboard, there is not enough space left to do anything serious (again: at least on my devices, your experience might be totally different!). (I heard there are desktop systems running Android, complete with mouse and keyboard - that would be a very different story, of course!)
- soperj 12y ago
  Sounds like this is just a viewer. That being said, I'd never do a lot of work on a smartphone/tablet, but if I was reviewing something and needed to correct a spelling error or make a quick change, it'd be nice to have that capability on my smartphone.
- cobblestone 12y ago
  in terms of having a small display and a really slow CPU One of those $100 Intel-powered Android tablets with the Z3745 processors has a processor that, core for core, equals a Pentium III or better. But instead of one core, it has four of them. And dramatically higher memory bandwidth. And SIMD. And a GPU. And shockingly fast flash storage. And it's probably running at least a 1280x720 screen, though some options obviously go dramatically higher. In ~2000, when these sorts of specs were common, we did all of our office work, software development, etc, on much less power.
  - krylon 12y ago
    Yeah, my tablet has a single core ARM CPU, and a 1024x600 display. Subtract the space taken up by the on-screen keyboard, and working is not much fun any more. Also, I like having a physical keyboard. With a tablet, I end up using one hand to hold the tablet and one hand for typing. :-| Like I said, on different devices the situation might be quite different, but my tablet is no good for working.
  - spyder 12y ago
    I can confirm that these quad-core Bay-Trail Atom processors are surprisingly fast and since it's an x86-64 CPU it is available with Windows 8.1 too and can handle Microsoft Office without a problem. The ASUS Transformer Book T100 even comes with an Office license and has detachable keyboard.
patcon 12y ago
Awesome! Libreoffice + a sync tool like BTSync (nm the closed source for now) means we're a hopeful step away from having Google Docs as the only convenient document management solution on Android :)

127 points by samtuke 12y ago

MrSwagga 12y ago

Where is the source?

chris_wot 12y ago
Here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/?h=feature/tiled-editing http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/?h=feature/... Edit: sorry, I mispeak, look at master - http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/android/experimental/LOAndroid3 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/android/ex...

chris_wot 12y ago

The amount of blood, sweat and tears that have been put into getting this together is remarkable. :-)

samtuke 12y ago
Getting five different companies to come together to make something useful is pretty challenging ;)
- chris_wot 12y ago
  More sweat, less blood and tears I hope :-)

Bill_Dimm 12y ago

Not to diminish the accomplishment, but the press release title says "...make LibreOffice Beta available..." whereas it is apparently a LibreOffice viewer, not full-blown LibreOffice.

TronPaul_ 12y ago
I was all excited until I read that on the Google Play page for the app.
chris_wot 12y ago
Ah, but it will be a full-blown app - the plumbing is there :-) If you want a better breakdown, check out Michael Meeks writeup: https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-01-21-android-viewer.html https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-01-21-android-vi...
- zokier 12y ago
  I wonder how much of the tech stuff like tiled rendering is going to live on separate branch, and how much will be merged to mainline desktop libreoffice.
  - chris_wot 12y ago
    It should all get merged eventually.

krylon 12y ago

Call me old-fashioned. Maybe it's just that both my smartphone and my tablet really suck (in terms of having a small display and a really slow CPU), but I don't really see myself trying to do actual work on a tablet/smartphone. Office applications are pretty keyboard-heavy, and with the on-screen keyboard, there is not enough space left to do anything serious (again: at least on my devices, your experience might be totally different!). (I heard there are desktop systems running Android, complete with mouse and keyboard - that would be a very different story, of course!)

soperj 12y ago
Sounds like this is just a viewer. That being said, I'd never do a lot of work on a smartphone/tablet, but if I was reviewing something and needed to correct a spelling error or make a quick change, it'd be nice to have that capability on my smartphone.
cobblestone 12y ago
in terms of having a small display and a really slow CPU One of those $100 Intel-powered Android tablets with the Z3745 processors has a processor that, core for core, equals a Pentium III or better. But instead of one core, it has four of them. And dramatically higher memory bandwidth. And SIMD. And a GPU. And shockingly fast flash storage. And it's probably running at least a 1280x720 screen, though some options obviously go dramatically higher. In ~2000, when these sorts of specs were common, we did all of our office work, software development, etc, on much less power.
- krylon 12y ago
  Yeah, my tablet has a single core ARM CPU, and a 1024x600 display. Subtract the space taken up by the on-screen keyboard, and working is not much fun any more. Also, I like having a physical keyboard. With a tablet, I end up using one hand to hold the tablet and one hand for typing. :-| Like I said, on different devices the situation might be quite different, but my tablet is no good for working.
- spyder 12y ago
  I can confirm that these quad-core Bay-Trail Atom processors are surprisingly fast and since it's an x86-64 CPU it is available with Windows 8.1 too and can handle Microsoft Office without a problem. The ASUS Transformer Book T100 even comes with an Office license and has detachable keyboard.

patcon 12y ago

Awesome! Libreoffice + a sync tool like BTSync (nm the closed source for now) means we're a hopeful step away from having Google Docs as the only convenient document management solution on Android :)