Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Cross Platfrom Support Question **CLOSED Thread**

To those who responded,

I guess the bottom line is that currently LibreOfffice does not and will not 
without a LOT of work support mobile devices.

I am not a mobile user, so I have no frame of reference.  It does appear that 
this feature (mobility) will be required at some future point, however.


Thanks,
Jay
On 08/24/2013 03:32 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Ahhh, that explains a lot.  I think there is some work-in-progress for an Android version but ii 
> think it needs more devs working on it.  Not sure about an iOS version.  I was wondering if there 
> was some quick work-around that might get a result more quickly but it's fairly clear there isn't.
>
> I assume that mobile devices are too low spec to have much chance of running a "Virtual Machine" on 
> even to install a VERY light-weight distro such as SliTaz (30 Mb) or Puppy or DSL or TinyCore or something?  
> I managed to get LibreOffice working in SliTaz on a full desktop machine but didn't try any of the others.
>
> So we really need to find an ODF viewer for the iOS and hope that's enough?  With Google-docs being 
> just for 'emergencies'.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>   From: Gabriel Risterucci <cleyfaye@gmail.com>
> To: Tom <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
> Sent: Saturday, 24 August 2013, 20:03
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Cross Platfrom Support Question
>
>
> 2013/8/24 Tom <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
>
> > Hi :)
> > Is there a different program that can edit ODFs on iPads and such?
> >
> > I guess the obvious one is Google Docs which i think is now part of Google
> > Drive.  Are there others?
> >
> > Also is the reason there isn't an iOS version just down to needing someone
> > to do a "build" or "make" or "compile", or whatever, or is there a
> > technical
> > reason why LO won't work on iOS yet?
>
> ​My 2cent:
>
> The framework used on "regular" systems (like gtk) are completely different
> than the one used on mobile devices, both iOS and Android. Although some
> framework tries to reduce the gap (I'm thin​​king about Qt), last time I
> checked LO sources it was not designed this way.
>
> It's not a matter of "just" rebuilding, it would need a lot of work, first
> redesigning the UI to work with mobile device (both having something
> adapted to touch interface AND built using framework for mobile OS), and
> moving the codebase (or rewriting from scratch) for objective C (the
> language used for the iOS SDK).
>
> Even funnier, an Android port would be easier to do if LO was still in Java
> (insert laughters here :) )
>
> tl;dr: having an iOS version of Libreoffice pretty much mean redoing
> everything (in my opinion)
>
> Of course, this doesn't answer the question of app available today for
> editing ODF files on mobile devices in general... seeing that even google
> drive (at least on Android) feels clunky, I would advise against doing real
> work on tablets...


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