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Libreoffice released an Android version! (www.libreoffice.org)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: the app seems to be pretty old, I like the Writer editing more (it works) but for other things, CollaboraOffice is way better.

Has anyone tried that on a tablet? The phone UI has like no features

Currently it is a "viewer" (renderer with usable UI) and editing features are experimental.

They only release their APK to Google Play for whatever reason, but you can use F-Droid to get it

Bugs can normally be reported to their bugtracker and you can join their forum for more community support!

Youtube Demo Video

Downside: the editing features are VERY rudimentary, while the app is only about 50MB (⅕) smaller than Collabora-Office, which has better features overall.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Isn't this something like 10 years old? If not, what has changed now?

Edit: German technews website heise says that libreoffice for android was released in 2015.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

yup, Play Store entry says 27 May 2015.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

True, maybe they added something new? I just saw it on F-Droid, probably just because before they only supported Google Play (not even an APK download??) Which is pretty insane.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've had that app for ages. And I only use F-Droid...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I installed it from F-Droid back on December last year. This post is kinda of inaccurate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Strange

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Google Play and F-Droid are both available

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

~~Cool, thanks!~~

Do you know if they target different versions? Their F-Droid version is min SDK Android 5, which may indicate they target an outdated version for compatibility.

Wait these are just links, I mean releasing the APK. On Google Play you send them your selfbuilt APK, on F-Droid they build it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

minSdk isn't the same as targetSdk or maxSdk.

You can target Android 14 and still support Android 1.5 devices if you really want to. Android will enforce that you use Android 14's security features, but you can still use the old APIs just fine on older versions of Android.

Android uses the target SDK to determine which restrictions to impose, because if you target Android 8 then your app can't be aware of Android 14 features so it goes into compatibility mode. But the minimum SDK doesn't matter, it's just there to tell users of too old Android versions that the app can't run.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That is great news!

Now I might be able to uninstall Google Drive from my phone.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

There's also collabora office which is based on LibreOffice.
https://www.collaboraoffice.com/collabora-office-android-ios/

It's released under MPLv2.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Yes Collabora Office (from their own F-Droid repo) is the alternative.

There is also an older Viewer but unofficial and purely for viewing.

https://f-droid.org/packages/at.tomtasche.reader

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Hopefully the editing portion takes off. Been using open document reader from fdroid to view and just been editing the actual ods files and such on my computer. Can't wait to see what the future has in store

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Collabora has been around for a while I've just been using that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah its better

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Better than collabora or the other way round?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Other