wow, all good stuff guys. Turns out the website (show) already lists an ODF mobile reader: http://www.appbrain.com/app/openoffice-document-reader/at.tomtasche.reader
Also, the request from the caller was not about reading ODF files, rather creating files using voice-to-text and was looking for someting other then Dragon Speak pro (IIRC) on his desktop old XP machine) for use by his special needs child. So before I, or anyone, writes something on this maybe if the collective intelligence on this list could shot some ideas off on the requirement - honestly I would not know what to say. Thanks, //drew On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <[email protected]>wrote: > > On 2013-10-22, at 14:21 , Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> On 2013-10-22, at 14:11 , Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On 2013-10-22, at 13:38 , Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts < > [email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On 2013-10-21, at 18:28 , Ian Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> Given the number of Android devices out there and growing I can > see a time > >>>>>>> where if its not editable there it won't be worth considering. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> That time is now. > >>>>> > >>>>> The 800-lbs gorilla is Google and their QuickOffice purchase, which > >>>>> they are now making available for free on iOS and Android: > >>>>> > >>>>> https://plus.google.com/+GoogleDrive/posts/Gz5GpSeCW4x > >>>>> > >>>>> I don't think it supports ODF, but otherwise is a strong editor > suite. > >>>>> So it does make it hard for any new competitor, since they would > >>>>> essentially be competing against a free, fully-featured app. > >>>> > >>>> is it a native client? > >>>> > >>> > >>> Yes. > >> > >> (BTW, there are no 800 lb. gorillas :-) ) > >> > >> Okay, but arguendo the mighty weight of Google's omnipresence, I'd be > curious to learn what kind of uptake there will be of the app. Given their > deployment of Docs & other Drive tools, I suspect there'll be improvements, > but erratically. > >> > > > > IMHO there is probably opportunity for an app that is a bit more open > > in what it connects to. The free Google apps appear to be bolted to > > Google Drive. But an app that supports DropBox, Sky Drive, Google > > Drive, iCloud, ownCloud, etc., could be interesting. > > > > Indeed. That's why I'm working with Peter of UX Write. He's also quite > interested in simplifying the process by which a mobile app *would* connect > to n+1 number of cloud services. Right now, as you note, there is a mess of > more or less proprietary (or at least idiosyncratic) APIs, protocols, code > dances that a developer must make bend his app to. > > > What is wanted (by yours truly) is for UX Write to work better with ODF….. > > > Regards, > > > > -Rob > > > > -louis > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
