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    • Peter Gamma
      Peter Gamma @Keneda last edited by

      @keneda said in LibreOffice on Ubports phone (survey):

      I'm sure it'll become r/w some day, with a nice touch UI

      Thanks for the answer.

      Yes, I am looking forward to this day, too.

      But until then, Softmaker Office can do this already on Android devices. What do you think, does this work satisfyingly in an Anbox on a Ubuntu Toch device?

      PETER GAMMA (Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND

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      • Keneda
        Keneda @Peter Gamma last edited by

        @peter-gamma
        Waydroid doesn't exist for my phone.

        2015-Now : Meizu MX4 (ubp OTA-22) for daily use
        Spare : Nexus 5

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        • Peter Gamma
          Peter Gamma @Keneda last edited by

          @keneda Very helpful, thank you 🤨 .

          PETER GAMMA (Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND

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          • AppLee
            AppLee @Peter Gamma last edited by

            @peter-gamma
            It means he wouldn't know because he cannot try those apps and their UI/UX
            So many of us (me included) are waiting for a native solution.

            But to be honest I never got myself in a situation where I thought "damn I wish I had a spreadsheet editor on my phone" 🙂

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            • Keneda
              Keneda @AppLee last edited by

              @applee said in LibreOffice on Ubports phone (survey):

              It means he wouldn't know because he cannot try those apps and their UI/UX

              Thanks for understanding 👍

              2015-Now : Meizu MX4 (ubp OTA-22) for daily use
              Spare : Nexus 5

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              • Moem
                Moem @AppLee last edited by

                @applee said in LibreOffice on Ubports phone (survey):

                to be honest I never got myself in a situation where I thought "damn I wish I had a spreadsheet editor on my phone"

                You and me both! I have never even tried to install LibreOffice on my Ubuntu Touch phone.
                It's a phone. When I want an office suite, I use a laptop.

                Is currently using an Op5t
                Also owns an Op1 and a BQ E4.5. And an Xperia X. Please, someone... make it stop.

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                • Lakotaubp
                  Lakotaubp @Moem last edited by

                  @moem Quite agree.

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                  • MonCon
                    MonCon last edited by MonCon

                    I actually find it quite helpful for my use case with the Cosmo, (or maybe anything else with a real keyboard (PinePhone with the accessory, F(x)tec)). Mainly for spreadsheets (Calc).
                    When I'm out of the office on site it saves me carting a chopping board sized laptop around in a rucksack all day.
                    I installed it via instructions on this post: https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?topic=36599.0

                    If it isn't broken, take it apart and fix it.

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                    • Peter Gamma
                      Peter Gamma @MonCon last edited by

                      @moncon Since my last Galaxy S5 with Android 4.3 is gone where I had a «real» Office application (Softmaker Textmaker) where I could write wherever and whenever I wanted with a high quality software, and I could not find another Stock Android 4.3 which allowed to write to the external SD card, which I could pull out of the phone and stick into to PC for editing, a luxury phone which also allowed usb access to the SD card from PC after rebooting, Now, I feel only half the man I was, and a part of me is missing. Since then I work hard to get a Linux phone with this options. It took many, many hours, and I am still desperate. It feels like I have to become a Linux phone nerd for this purpose, although I never wanted to be a nerd.

                      PETER GAMMA (Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND

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                      • AppLee
                        AppLee @Peter Gamma last edited by

                        @peter-gamma said in LibreOffice on Ubports phone (survey):

                        write to the external SD card, which I could pull out of the phone and stick into to PC for editing

                        You can use SyncThing for this purpose, it works well as long as your phone and PC are on the same LAN.
                        No cable, no manual step required. No cloud or anything like that, the app on the phone and the PC act as a peer-to-peer node to share data.
                        Or you can use a USB cable to access your data on your device...

                        Internal storage is often faster than an SD card and nowadays it is larger and larger.

                        But I'm a bit off topic, sorry.

                        LibreOffice was working with Libertine, but as always with Libertine you can be lucky or cursed...
                        Making it a full blown app is possible based on what was done for Document Viewer, but the app will be huge and the effort required is important.
                        If you can gather people willing to do it (like the waydroid project) it I think the goal can be achieved.

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