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LibreOffice for Mobile will be soon a reality
This week too, we saw a rather huge announcement^[21]
<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LOWN/3#cite_note-mobileLibO-21> .
As a reminder, at the first LibreOffice conference The Document
Foundation announced plans to migrate LibreOffice to mobile devices, but
not by rewriting our office suite from scratch, but by reusing 90% of
the code base and writing 10% exclusively for the target platform. The
migration of 90% of the code base was actually made. What we need is to
work on the 10% side, actually the UI stuff. A Michael Meeks interview
at FOSDEM 2013 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2vNTkTQi60> (until
2m25s) showed in which direction the development was going on.
As you see on the demo made by Michael in the afore mentionned video and
according to what I could actually test on my mobile device a year ago
<https://twitter.com/willubuntu/status/362977920454635520>, the
LibreOffice code is currently compiling great on Android (and on iOS
too), but the UI is clearly not adapted. Android has currently a working
viewer which has to be improved continuously to integrate the UI
allowing document to be modified. Until now, progress on this side was
community driven and thus improvement were rather low. But this is gonna
change.
Indeed, Smoose, a company from Netherlands, driven by open source
projects, provided funding for LibreOffice to run on Android.
Ideas from the previous LibreOffice Android Viewer (showed in the above
video) were taken back and merged with the Fennec browser (Firefox
Mobile). Indeed, rendering a webpage or rendering an office document, is
basically the same, and Mozilla already fixed most of the developpement
problems LibreOffice developers would need to solve; Why reivent the
wheel? At this stage, a working tiled viewer is already working. I have
not had the opportunity to test it by myself on my own device yet, but
the first impressions were actually great, because the app is quite
reactive and smooth as it is accelerated by OpenGL. We see here the
first positive effects of the LibreOfficeKit interface we wrote about in
one of the previous LibreOffice Weekly report.
According to the developers working on this side of the LibreOffice
project, thanks to the funding brought by Smoose, we could already have
a working viewer for LibreOffice 4.4 which should be released this fall.
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On 07/29/2014 09:00 AM, Sophie wrote:
Hi,
Le 29/07/2014 14:56, Gordon Burgess-Parker a écrit :
Hi Tom,
Where can I see that report?
You'll find them here:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LOWN
Kind regards
Sophie
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