What is Reddit's opinion of
LibreOffice Viewer Beta?
From 3.5 billion Reddit comments
Popularity Score: 34
This app was mentioned in 42 comments, with an average of 2.33 upvotes
Best Comments
You don't need to worry about files going missing on MS Office. If you sign into your account it regularly saves them to onedrive(of course you can download them). Yup, WPS is owned by Chinese firm and is not best for privacy concerns in the market.
Then there is Collabora Office, open source and based on Libreoffice- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice
I don't know any on F-Droid that work. But on the Play Stores I would look at the following two.
Pretty sure this one is FOSS: Collabora Office
Not sure if this one is, although definitely based on FOSS: AndrOpen Office
This app uses the same codebase as the Android Viewer app that's been in the Play store for a while, so the work didn't start from zero.
Also while the videos look good, 90% seems optimistic, depending on how many more features you expect (still far from LibreOffice desktop functionality). Did you try the apk?
Unfortunately, I don't know of a lightweight open source office app.
But these two foss apps are quite good:
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.documentfoundation.libreoffice
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice
It's free and open source. I hope that's what are you looking for
> Recently I kinda need an office tool on android. I wish LibreOffice is on android. Currently I haven't pick anything about it.
I've been using CollaboraOffice lately for .odt files; it works well enough. I don't know how well it works for spreadsheets etc.
It's a "LibreOffice based editor for Microsoft Office, LibreOffice and OpenOffice docs."
collabora has developed a android-version of libre office
I have not have had the chance to really test it (I rarely write long documents on my phone) but it seems to work really well.
All I could find is collabora office for Android, supposedly developed together with LibreOffice.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice
I don't have an Android tablet here to try it though.
Collabora Office looks promising but has room for improvement. Needs ability to edit txt files.
- FOSS, no ads
- Free export to PDF.
- Free Print feature.
- Can edit files only after selecting "Edit" mode.
- Auto-hyperlinking for URLs only.
- No txt edit support.
- No cloud export.
- No Share menu.
There is a FOSS alternative available and it's maturing with every release. This is already quite stable and brings full power of LibreOffice to android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice
Collabora is one of the biggest contributer to LibreOffice, they offer enterprise services and have a free app in the store which you could try:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice&hl=en_US
I'll just leave it here. It' not perfect yet but gets better with each release. Best implementation of LibreOffice for Android to date - nothing else would be expected from a company that is a major contributor to the desktop LibreOffice. Tablets are supported :) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice - they just updated it in December and it's noticeably better than before. But it's still in Beta. Smoother than OnlyOffice though.
Try Collabora office, it's free and open source
I’m using Collabora office, its open source and working fine for me: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice&hl=en&gl=US
Not F-Droid, but: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice
Money Wallet (F-Droid) for controlling your wallet and expenses
Collabora Office Libre Office for Android
Andropen Office literally the full Open Office suite for Android
Simple Gallery Pro best gallery app in my opinion, with a lot of features
OsmAnd best alternative to Google Maps in my opinion with offline maps and A LOT of features, the F-Droid version is full for free
ImagePipe (F-Droid) image compressor and editor
TrebleShot for share files through WiFi and for explore your device files
KDE Connect for Sharing files and control your PC with Linux using Android
WhatsApp Web to Go (F-Droid) for open other WhatsApp in your phone, using WhatsApp Web
Loop Habit Tracker for controlling your habits and routines
Easy Message text in WhatsApp to someone that is not in your contact list
Firefox Screenshots Go for manage your screenshots like a pro
MiXplorer Best file manager in my opinion (the XDA Labs version is for free
QKSMS (so far best SMS message app I've tried)
Office app : Collabora
Collabora office is probably probably the best option.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice
Also, I believe you can print to PDF on Android.
I personally haven't used it much but maybe collabora office?
Have you tried the Collabora Office Android app on your Chromebook? It's built from the libre office source
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice
UPDATE - I did find an app (Collabra Office) that will work to access ODS format spreadsheets in cryptomator vault on my phone (the same format of spreadsheets can also be accessed in vault on pc so I can update these encrypted spreadsheets from both locations). More details below
Here are the android spreadsheet approaches that did NOT work to access spreadsheet in cryptomator for me:
microsoft excel as an application to opening either xls format or ods (open document spreadsheet) format, opened in read only as discussed above and explained by u/geselthyn (thanks!)
google sheets as a document format did not work. I did succeed in dragging a google sheet from an unencrypted sync'd folder on my hard drive into a cyrptomator vault on my had drive. Whe I try to open the file in cryptomator on android, google sheets gives me some kind of error "could not upload file".
google sheets as an application to open ods or xls format. When prompted for application to open these file types I select google sheets. I get same error as above.
Comment about google sheets as an application - I think google sheets is not well suited to this task. It wants direct access to the file on their google servers and feeding it to the google sheets application on my phone doesn't work for some reason. I do recall google sheets has features like remembering previous edit history with ability to restore old versions... these kinds of features require google to have a more direct access to the file. Maybe I'm wrong because there is an "offline" google sheets mode, but I haven't researched that well enough and either way it's too complicated and I'm leery of it.
Fdroid - Libre Office and open office document reader - in spite of the name claims to have the ability to read and write. Does not work. I even tried the paid version just to get the ads out of the way to see if it made a difference... still didn't work.
Fdroid - Libre Office viewer - claims to have beta type functionality for write. Does not work.
Here is what finally DID work to access spreadsheet in vault on android:
- I used collabra office for ODS format spreadsheets
- Collabra office is not on Fdroid (it's on google play) but it sure seems to be FOSS based on what I see on google play and the website (I wasn't able to find github link but maybe they do things differently). It has no ads and works quite well, editing sorting, searching, everything expected of a spreadsheet.
- When done editing, I press a checkmark and there is some kind of uploading message which concerned me a bit (apparently there is a local copy stored, I guess maybe that is expected)
- I was able to block all internet access to the collabra office using netguard and it still worked fine for reading and updating ods files in the cryptomator app (apparently it is only communicating with cryptomator in that process, not communicating elsewhere at all). I'm just going to leave collabora permanently blocked for extra safety.
- For additional security, I can also easily clear data on the app by long pressing the launch icon on my Nova launcher to take me to app settings, then clear data (removes data and cache). The only impact of doing that is that the next time I use the app I have to grant it permission to access storage on my phone (the same as I did the first time I launched the app).
- By the way, a big bonus is that I can access the same spreadsheet (ods format) from both my pc and my phone. On my pc I use libre office which is also FOSS, and to my understanding it's the most current / secure fork of the old open office. Bleachbit has a provision to clean up temporary files form LibreOffice (along with windows temp files and windows file explorer files of course), so it's easy to wipe all traces from this program's activities from my pc.
UPDATE - I did find an app (Collabra Office) that will work to access ODS format spreadsheets in cryptomator vault on my phone (the same format of spreadsheets can also be accessed in vault on pc so I can update these encrypted spreadsheets from both locations). More details below
Here are the android spreadsheet approaches that did not work in cryptomator for me:
microsoft excel as an application to opening either xls format or ods (open document spreadsheet) format, opened in read only as discussed above and explained by u/geselthyn (thanks!)
google sheets as a document format did not work. I did succeed in dragging a google sheet from an unencrypted sync'd folder on my hard drive into a google sheets as an application to open ods (open document spreadsheet format). When prompted for app to open the file in cryptomator I select google sheets. I get some kind of error "could not upload file".
google sheets as an application to open ods or xls format. Same error as above.
Comment about google sheets as an application - I think google sheets is not well suited to this task. It wants direct access to the file on their google servers and feeding it to the google sheets application on my phone doesn't work for some reason. I do recall google sheets has features like remembering previous edit history with ability to restore old versions... these kinds of features require a more direct access to the file. Maybe I'm wrong because there is an "offline" google sheets mode but I haven't researched that well enough and I'm leery of it.
Fdroid - Libre Office and open office document reader https://f-droid.org/en/packages/at.tomtasche.reader/ - in spite of the name claims to have the ability to read and write. Does not work. I even tried the paid version just to get the ads out of the way to see if it made a difference... still didn't work.
Fdroid - Libre Office viewer https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.documentfoundation.libreoffice/ - claims to have beta type functionality for write. Does not work.
Here is what finally worked to access spreadsheet in vault on android:
- I used collabra office for ODS format spreadsheets
- Collabra office is not on Fdroid (it's on google play) but it sure seems to be FOSS based on what I see on google play and the website (I wasn't able to find github link but maybe they do things differently). It has no ads and works quite well, editing sorting, searching, everything expected of a spreadsheet.
- When done editing, I press a checkmark and there is some kind of uploading message which concerned me a bit (apparently there is a local copy stored, I guess maybe that is expected)
- I was able to block all internet access to the collabra office using netguard and it still worked fine for reading and updating ods files in the cryptomator app (apparently it is only communicating with cryptomator in that process, not communicating elsewhere at all). I'm just going to leave collabora permanently blocked for extra safety.
- For additional security, I can also easily clear data on the app by long pressing the launch icon on my Nova launcher to take me to app settings, then clear data (removes data and cache). The only impact of doing that is that the next time I use the app I have to grant it permission to access storage on my phone (the same as I did the first time I launched the app).
- By the way, a big bonus is that I can access the same spreadsheet (ods format) from both my pc and my phone. On my pc I use libre office which is also FOSS, and to my understanding it's the most current / secure fork of the old open office.
I use Collabora Office, though mainly to open .odt and .doc files.
This is an Android app subreddit. Try
- Collabora https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice
- AndrOpen Office https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andropenoffice
- Softmaker https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=softmaker.applications.textmaker.hd
Try out Collabora Office- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice
A libre office fork, supports MS office files and open source too.
Well try an open source https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice
But if it's only for open documents
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sjava.officereader
Money Wallet (F-Droid) for controlling your wallet and expenses
Simple Gallery Pro best gallery app in my opinion, with a lot of features
OsmAnd best alternative to Google Maps in my opinion with offline maps and A LOT of features, the F-Droid version is full for free
ImagePipe (F-Droid) image compressor and editor
TrebleShot for share files through WiFi and for explore your device files
KDE Connect for Sharing files and control your PC with Linux using Android
WhatsApp Web to Go (F-Droid) for open other WhatsApp in your phone, using WhatsApp Web
Loop Habit Tracker for controlling your habits and routines
QKSMS so far best SMS message manager I've tried
BONUS:
- Collabora Office Libre Office port Android, literally!! Is not available on F-Droid, but is Open Source of course
Here you go: Collabora Office
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice
Recently Collabora Office was released for Android, its still kind of Beta, but it looks promising https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora.libreoffice