The interface has also been optimized for touchscreens in general and Android in particular, which in part explains why the feature set is so limited designing a touch interface for something as complex as an office suite is not a simple task. The app also features support for opening and saving a broad range of office formats, including MS Office as well as Open Office formats (which are also used as the native for mat for LibreOffice). It still offers a far from complete suite of features and the tool can’t actually create a document from scratch, but if you download the latest development build you will find the app added some editing options to Writer, Calc, Draw, and Impress, including basic copy and past of text and images and simple text formatting (bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough).

That very early release was buggy and unstable, and most importantly it lacked any way to actually edit files.īut development continued, and now the latest beta release supports editing documents. LibreOffice is an open source office suite for Windows, OSX, Linux, and now Android. Earlier this year Collabora and the The Document Foundation (the non-profit which supports LibreOffice) announced the development of a version of LibreOffice for Android.

Libre Office for Android Gains Support for Editing Documents

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