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What odt editor for Android do you recommend? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I searched this community and couldn't find anything about odt, I found a few odt viewers on F-Droid and Aurora when I searched 'odt', but the only editors for odt, were ironically the proprietary Google Documents and Microsoft Word.

Have you found anything else?

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[–] christophski@feddit.uk 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I haven't used it but looks like Collabora does it. You can add their report to f-droid: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/releases-en/collabora-office-on-mobiles-supporting-password-protected-documents-and-available-on-f-droid/

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah, Collabora works great, thanks!

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's a nice find. Odt, ods, and odp, seems to work fine both on phone and tablet.

[–] esaru@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately, it's not available in the official F-Droid repository, but only by Collabora's own F-Droid repository. I don't want to trust other package managers except those of the official F-Droid repo.

[–] fenndev@leminal.space 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

May I ask why? Using alternative sources from the vendors themselves usually isn't any less secure than using the official F-Droid repos. It's a common thing on Linux.

[–] esaru@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Has Collabora made its packages reproducible, so independent people can check if their package is built from the source code without modification?

[–] metacolon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Well it seems they don't publish a signing key, so that's a good reason against it.

[–] christophski@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But it's the official Collabora repo?

[–] esaru@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, but I don't want to trust a vendor when I have Open Source.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Collabora Office is the label on my Icon. Same as the name in Play. The Play publisher is Collabora Productivity limited. Rating 4.2 and user count 500K or more.

I do not actually use it much but a family member uses it all the time on their tablet. For me I use mostly Joplin for notes on Android.