I noticed today that a programmer has finally adapted the great Open Source alternative to Microsoft's Office to use on the Android phones.
Having been a devotee and ardent user of Open Office since 2002 on Windows I'm delighted to see the Android version AndrOffice.
Now I can kick off a lot of the bloatware including Microsoft.
Here is a brief from.Google on the app.:
"Celebrating 3 Million Downloads!!!
AndrOpen Office is the world's first port of OpenOffice for Android. Programmer Akikasu Yoshikawa
You can view, edit, insert and export office documents using full features of the OpenOffice.
**AndrOpen Office is office suite of 5 components:
- Writer (a word processor)
- Calc (spreadsheet / worksheet)
- Impress (presentation graphics)
- Draw (drawing)
- Math (equation editor)**
AndrOpen Office is a forked project from the Apache OpenOffice project. AndrOpen Office is not affiliated with the Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice project.
Supported File Formats
You can import and export following formats:
- Microsoft Word (DOC / DOT / RTF)
- Microsoft Excel (XLS / XLT)
- Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT / POT)
- OpenDocument (ODT / ODS / ODP / ODG / ODF)
- Portable Document Format (PDF)
- OpenOffice.org1.0 / StarOffice6.0 (SXW / SXC / SXD / SXI / SXG / SXM)
- Text (TXT / CSV)
- Adobe Photoshop (PSD)
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
- Windows Metafile (EMF / WMF)
- Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
- Data Interchange Format (DIF)
- SYLK (SLK)
- Portable Anymap Format (PBM / PGM / PPM)
- OS/2 Metafile (MET)
- Sun Raster Image (RAS)
- Mac Pict (PCT)
- X PixMap (XPM)
- StarView Metafile (SVM)
You can import following formats: - Microsoft Word 2007 (DOCX / DOTX / DOCM)
- Microsoft Excel 2007 (XLSX / XLTX / XLSM)
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 (PPTX / POTX / PPTM)
- AutoCAD (DXF)
- T602 Document (602)
- Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)
- Truevision Targa (TGA)
- X Bitmap (XBM)
- Zsoft Paintbrush (PCX)
- Kodak Photo CD (PCD)
You can export following formats: - HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
- PlaceWare (PWP)
- Macromedia Flash (SWF)
- JPG / GIF / PNG / BMP
Features
- View / edit / insert / export docs
- High fidelity
- Formatting paragraphs
- Support for embedded object
- Export docs to PDF
- Save docs to extensive file formats
- Support for password
- Internationalization
- Localization
- Support for macro
- Support for Google Drive (Android 4.4+) / Dropbox / OneDrive / Box
- Support for spell checker, hyphenator, thesaurus
- Support for printing (Android 4.4+)
Motion Event Assigns
Device's motion events (mouse, pen, finger, trackball) are assigned to mouse events of X Window System.
- Single Tap = Click Left Button
- Double Tap = Double Click Left Button
And some gestures are assigned to application actions. - Swipe = Scroll
- Pinch In / Out = Zoom In / Out
- Long Tap = Click Right Button
And you can general mouse operations by virtual mouse pad."
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I can't really say I'd be looking forward to having office tools on my phone. I have an office where a lot of that stuff already happens. When I leave there I have no desire to take it with me, on my phone. Of course I'm old and obviously not in tune with how cool all of this probably is to the new guard.
Razorjelly
Level 7
May 2, 2018
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My office is now my top pocket.
@FrayedBear It must be fantastically liberating to know you have it all at your fingertips, at any time, day or night...and to have really good eyes.
So how does one get this program or app on ones device??
@Razorjelly Google play store or whatever its called. Free download. Don't forget the extras like dictionary, fonts and pdf tools. Eventually I imagine that pro forma documents and the myriad goodies available for the desktop version will become available.
I know that in the main I will be using much simpler editing tools. The Google email phone app now allows limited font formatting (bold, italics, colour of letters, highlight colour) together with one or two other niceties like your emails. It is then just a copy and paste or share of selected text to whatever you are doing ... Like Agnostics.com ?
@Razorjelly playstore
@Razorjelly being shortsighted I frequently remove my spectacles in order to read the screen 10" from my eyes.
@Razorjelly Another simple writer is Pure Writer which also claims to never lose your data and has a couple of simple features including never losing your data and being able to set up one keystroke entries for frequently used writing such as address, phone number, acronyms in full or part, salutations etc.
@FrayedBear - guess I could give it a spin. Thanks!
@Razorjelly The open office I doubt I will ever use more than 5% of its capability but I am in awe of it just as I was 16 years ago when it was released to challenge Microsoft's Office.
The other editing (Pure Writer) program I had another try of tonight and was very pleased with it's simplicity and couple of extra features particularly as it is only a few megabytes in size.
I'm not sure what all this really means. is this just basically trying to make an Androids features more like a full-blown computer?
hankster
Level 9
May 2, 2018
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Yes. I havent used my computers for several years now.
@FrayedBear cool. I downloaded it. I'll try it.
@hankster Just been having a go. I like the mouse feature and the dictation typing seems to recognise reasonably but that of course is through the keyboard. It is a lot more sophisticated than is generally needed for emails. I also downloaded W+ which is a fairly simple text editor.
@hankster Don't forget to grab the extras like US dictionary , fonts and pdf tool.
@hankster How did you go?
@FrayedBear what do you mean? how did I go?
@FrayedBear if you're referring to me leaving the group I just tried to whittle down my groups I had too many.
@hankster Did you successfully use the open office app on your phone. Or even the Write+ which I notice has been butchered in my original post by being shortened to W+.
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