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KDE's Calligra Office Suite For Android Released

Posted by timothy on from the nose-under-the-tent dept.

jrepin writes "Coffice is a new project that tries to make KDE's Calligra office suite available on mobile platforms like Android, Blackberry 10, Jolla SailfishOS and Ubuntu Phone. Calligra already has some presence on smartphones, since document viewer on Nokia N9 is based on it. The first release brings Calligra Words viewer for OpenDocument Text documents and is currently available for Android only. Plans for later releases include viewers for spredsheets and presentations. Editing and saving as well as support for proprietary Microsoft Office formats are coming later."

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  1. OpenOffice by markdavis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Although this sounds interesting, what would be more useful for me would be OpenOffice/LibreOffice on Android.

    http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/libreoffice-for-android-frustratingly-close-to-release/
    http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Android
    http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/11985/is-libreoffice-4-available-for-android/

    1. Re:OpenOffice by JabberWokky · · Score: 4, Insightful

      You do realize that this uses the exact same file format? Since the interface is necessarily going to change between a phone or tablet interface and a desktop program, just pretend this is LibreOffice on Android and you'll be good.

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  2. spellcheck by 1u3hr · · Score: 4, Funny

    viewers for spredsheets and presentations

    But apparently no spellchecker. Not that anyone at Slashdot uses one.

  3. Nice to be off the cloud by nazsco · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Finally a office suite not forcing me to store all mydata on their servers.

    Though be warned, it will download some 20mb of qt libraries. On my nexus one, this raises the bar on if i can even have the app by a huge margin

  4. Re:OSX would be nice... by ArhcAngel · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just install KDE on your MAC and run it native! Sure, you have compile it from source but think of the satisfaction you'll feel every time you fire up your office suite...

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  5. Re:OSX would be nice... by mwvdlee · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The primary aspect that sets computer text comprehension apart from humans' is that computers have trouble understanding context.
    You've just made the gap a bit smaller.

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  6. Not so suite news by The+Infamous+Grimace · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The title implies a full office suite; at this point it's just a doc viewer. Let me know when 'Sheets' is ready; I could use a decent spreadsheet app for my Nexus 7, and Kingsoft doesn't do it for me.

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  7. New ecosystem taking shape by gmuslera · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Targetting a bunch of mobile platforms at once is one of the biggest advantages of QT/QML. Having a key app as Calligra in all of them not just gives base to the new mobile platforms, but also extend the ecosystem to Android, as a lot of people will have the libraries installed, making more attractive to develop for it.