OpenOffice Now Available on GooglePlay

[Greg_E]

And again, if you are fully into Open Office for document creation, then this gives you that next bit of productivity for your tablet. Don't think I would even try it on a phone yet. If you are working in .doc with MS Office I see no reason to get excited since Kingsoft Office is still free and works great.

 

[Music]

Speaking of opening documents, does Android 4.4 have a way to select an application to open a file? I'm really annoyed at the popup message "Cannot open file" when I actually do have an app installed that will read open te file (like a midi ( .mid) music files.

 

[Natey2]

Tried http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appiator.defaultappmanager ?

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[Music]

that application only allows you to manage the default actions for the file types that Android recognizes. The goal is trying to do something like getting a notepad or text editor (like Docs To Go) to open an HTML file, which is stuff you can do in Windows.

BTW- DTG refused to open a .doc file because it was a "plain text file" ?

 

[Natey2]

I can open .doc files with DTG.

But I can't open .txt files with DTG; DTG doesn't come up as one of the 7 possible apps for dealing with .txt files.

I believe the Android app needs to register an intent for that file type extension on installation.

Yeah, it's easier to fix this issue under Windows.

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[Music]

On my old tablet, FireFox and CoolReader would come up as choices to open .txt or similar files

 

[Greg_E]

AndrOpen Office is much smoother on my quad core Lenovo Yoga 10 tablet, just about to the point of being really functional for daily use, just wish it had a higher resolution display for a wider page size.

 

[Greg_E]

Got an update today or yesterday, seem to launch a little faster now but haven't really tried to do real work on it yet.

 

[Greg_E]

The install size continues to decrease with each revision. Also I see a new $.99 pro version which adds a couple small features but also might help push development. The guy is certainly not trying to get rich off of this application. I keep hoping that Apache will put this into their main branches and really get things going.

 

[Natey2]

The install size continues to decrease with each revision.

I see some improvements in UI/usage, but the app size has actually increased by 1MB (to 179MB) from v1.4.0 to v1.4.2a :

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[Greg_E]

I looked at the download sized, they must be compressing the package now.

Mine says 209mb and with whatever small amount of data it has created I'm up to 256mb.

 

[Spider]

Moved to Android Tablet Apps where more people looking for apps to handle MS documents will see it.