After years of development, the office suite LibreOffice open source is now available for Android , at least in some way.
A beta version of LibreOffice Viewer found herself thrust into the Play Store Google. You can use the free open source application for opening files from Microsoft Office or those in Open Document Format, but LibreOffice Viewer for Android is still considered unstable and as the name suggests, it does not allow you create or edit documents . You can see ... if you're lucky.
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I installed LibreOffice Viewer on the Nexus running Android 5.0 6, and then I could start the application without too many problems, opening files .doc , .docx , .xls , .ods was not very fluid.
In other words, she is not ready to replace Google Docs, QuickOffice, Docs to Go or one of the other free office applications and available for Android.
But it's always impressive to see that the developers have not only brought the free application and open source LibreOffice to run on Android, but that they also overhauled a large part of the interface user , the file browser (which is what I use for the time), with the latter works on mobile devices with touch screens.
The application supports the zoom by simply pinching fingers and other gestures like that to slide your finger from left to right, allowing you to select films or slides into documents that have more a.
The developers plan to add support for external SD cards, interactive document elements such as URLs, and other features in the future. Unfortunately, it is not clear when we have the ability to edit documents using LibreOffice on Android.
A beta version of LibreOffice Viewer found herself thrust into the Play Store Google. You can use the free open source application for opening files from Microsoft Office or those in Open Document Format, but LibreOffice Viewer for Android is still considered unstable and as the name suggests, it does not allow you create or edit documents . You can see ... if you're lucky.
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I installed LibreOffice Viewer on the Nexus running Android 5.0 6, and then I could start the application without too many problems, opening files .doc , .docx , .xls , .ods was not very fluid.
In other words, she is not ready to replace Google Docs, QuickOffice, Docs to Go or one of the other free office applications and available for Android.
The application supports the zoom by simply pinching fingers and other gestures like that to slide your finger from left to right, allowing you to select films or slides into documents that have more a.
The developers plan to add support for external SD cards, interactive document elements such as URLs, and other features in the future. Unfortunately, it is not clear when we have the ability to edit documents using LibreOffice on Android.