Hi :) Ahhh, that explains a lot. I think there is some work-in-progress for an Android version but ii think it needs more devs working on it. Not sure about an iOS version. I was wondering if there was some quick work-around that might get a result more quickly but it's fairly clear there isn't.
I assume that mobile devices are too low spec to have much chance of running a "Virtual Machine" on even to install a VERY light-weight distro such as SliTaz (30 Mb) or Puppy or DSL or TinyCore or something? I managed to get LibreOffice working in SliTaz on a full desktop machine but didn't try any of the others. So we really need to find an ODF viewer for the iOS and hope that's enough? With Google-docs being just for 'emergencies'. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Gabriel Risterucci <[email protected]> To: Tom <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, 24 August 2013, 20:03 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Cross Platfrom Support Question 2013/8/24 Tom <[email protected]> > Hi :) > Is there a different program that can edit ODFs on iPads and such? > > I guess the obvious one is Google Docs which i think is now part of Google > Drive. Are there others? > > Also is the reason there isn't an iOS version just down to needing someone > to do a "build" or "make" or "compile", or whatever, or is there a > technical > reason why LO won't work on iOS yet? > My 2cent: The framework used on "regular" systems (like gtk) are completely different than the one used on mobile devices, both iOS and Android. Although some framework tries to reduce the gap (I'm thinking about Qt), last time I checked LO sources it was not designed this way. It's not a matter of "just" rebuilding, it would need a lot of work, first redesigning the UI to work with mobile device (both having something adapted to touch interface AND built using framework for mobile OS), and moving the codebase (or rewriting from scratch) for objective C (the language used for the iOS SDK). Even funnier, an Android port would be easier to do if LO was still in Java (insert laughters here :) ) tl;dr: having an iOS version of Libreoffice pretty much mean redoing everything (in my opinion) Of course, this doesn't answer the question of app available today for editing ODF files on mobile devices in general... seeing that even google drive (at least on Android) feels clunky, I would advise against doing real work on tablets... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
