AndrOpen Office, based on Apache OpenOffice, hits Android
Sun Microsystem’s Open Office was first major ‘free’ alternativfe to Microsoft Office and was a bit hit during 2000s. Thanks to some poor choices and decisions, Open Office was discontinued by Oracle in the year 2011. Apache Open Office and LibreOffice suites that are popular now among Linux users are forks of Open Office.
This week, AndrOpen Office, the first Android port of OpenOffice in the world is made available to the mass market via Google Play Store. AndOpen Office is forked from Apache OpenOffice. AndrOpen Office support most major languages and has support for all major file formats. Do note that this application is not written from ground up for tablets and phones. The application is directly ported from notebook/desktop application Apache OpenOffice 3.4 with touchscreen input and automatic screen rotation features injected into app. It can be an effort using this application on phones and tablets.
AndrOpen Office has 6 components:
- Writer (a word processor)
- Calc (spreadsheet)
- Impress (presentation graphics)
- Draw (drawing)
- Math (equation editor)
- Base (database)
Featureset:
- View documents
- Edit documents
- Support for embedded object
- Export documents to PDF
- Save documents to other file formats
- Support for password
- Internationalization
- Localization
- Support for digital signature
- Macro
Here is a list of known issues: https://sites.google.com/site/andropenoffice/bug-reports. More detail head here.
