By Jacobo Aragunde Pérez. The document manager will bridge the Android port of LibreOffice with the services provided by this operating system. We will show the current status, specially regarding the implementation of the cloud storage support funded by The Document Foundation, and present a vision of the future of this component as a full featured, Android-centric document manager. (c) 2015 FOSDEM VZW CC BY 2.0 BE https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/

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Jacobo Aragunde Pérez
http://blogs.igalia.com/jaragunde
@JacoboAragunde
A vision about a LibreOffice
document manager for Android

2. Contents
● The past: LibreOffice for Android experiments
● The present: complement for LibreOffice viewer
● The future: towards a full-featured document
manager

3. The past

4. The story so far
● 2012:
● GSOC project: “Java GUI for Libre-Office Based
Android App”, by Iain Billett
● Native Android UI wrapping the Android Document
loader experiment
– Browse local documents
– Filtering
– Sorting
– Thumbnails

5. The story so far
● 2014:
● The new LibreOffice viewer was started from
scratch
● Adapted and merged the document browser
– Removed crashing parts
– Interacts with the new viewer
– Merged into a single .apk

6. The present

7. Powering up LibreOffice core
● Provide document browsing
● No native file browsers in Android
● Integrate LibreOffice native core with Android
services
● Email share
● Cloud providers
● Sponsoring from The Document Foundation

8. Native share

9. Native share

10. Cloud support

11. Cloud support

12. The future

13. More features!
● Full featured document management
● Create/delete
● Move/copy
● Rename
● Support for more cloud services
● Fresh design
● Follow latest Android trends
● Stability and bug fixing, of course!

14. The document manager

15. Filtering options

16. Document providers view

17. To sum up

18. Summary
● LibreOffice for Android!
● Browse your local documents with no external
tools
● Share through email, bluetooth, etc.
● Soon: connect to ownCloud servers
● Later: more cloud services, more document
management features, fresh design

19. Try it!
● Google Play Store
● F-Droid
● Daily builds at
● http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/

20. ¡Thank you!
© 2015 Igalia, S.L.