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

2013/6/22 Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmaster@krackedpress.com>:
> 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.

This is a little confusing to me. You mention LibreOffice and Apache
OpenOffice for Android, but as far as I know there is no Apache
OpenOffice for Android, so I guess you are talking about LibreOffice
all the time, right?


Johnny Rosenberg

-- 
To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted