[libreoffice-design] AOO for Android - not worth the download

I downloaded Apache's Open Office for Android from Google Play.

I have a Nook HD+, with a 9 inch display, i.e. 7.5 inches wide display, 
with 16 gig internal.

After the initial load/splash screen, I waited for over 4 minutes and I 
still could not get the keyboard or any other controls to work.  So I 
tried to use the "back button" to exit the "app" but it would not work.  
I had to use the Nook Button to go to my "Home" screen to get out of 
that frozen AOO screen.

AOO-Android used the full top menu bars that you would see in a normal 
install of AOO or LO on Windows or Linux. Those menu bars on the top of 
the screen was so small, even my tablet pen could not touch only the 
needed option.  It touched the options all around it as well.  Now, I 
have a 9 inch tablet. It would even be worse on a 7 inch tablet.

So, here is my opinion about what LOfor Android should be like.

1]  Forget trying to have the full width top menu bars visible at the 
same time.  Maybe have it be on some type of left/right scroll.

2]  Make the menus large enough to easily see and use on a 7 inch 
tablet. AOO's was too small for even a 9 inch one.

3] Try and make it open, to the point you can start typing, in less than 
2 minutes, if possible.  If not, warn the user it may take "x" number of 
minutes to load up completely.

4] Do not try to make LO-Android do too much. People need a basic office 
package to do some quick things. It should not be areplacement for a 
desktop or laptop system.

5] Make sure there is enough room between the top menu bar[s] and the 
tablet's default keyboard, without making the menus and control icons 
too small to use properly and easily.

6] Make it able to run on a tablet that has a "smallRAM" and slower 
CPUs, compared to the top of the line tablets.  Not all tablets have 
dual core CPUs with 2+ gig of RAM and 4+ gig internal storage.  My old 
one does not even come close.

I do not know what people really need to do on a tablet, for their 
office package needs. What type of features and options are really 
needed, or wanted. Sure, you will need to be able to display the ODF and 
OOXML [07-13] documents. But what editing options will you need?

I just bought my first tablet that used Google Play. My last one was a 7 
inch that used Amazon and other app stores, but it was a low end one.  
This new Nook HD+ was 44% off for the week of 9th through the 15th, 
Father's Day Salepricing was the only way I could afford to get one of 
these better tablets.  I am still learning what this better tablet can 
do and what apps I might want or need.  Right now, I do not want a 
packagelike AOO for Android.

So, I do not know how far the team is on the LO for Android app, but 
hopefully they will not make the same mistakes as Apache did with their 
version.



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