The guys from KOffice got some funding by Nokia to port their office suite to Maemo-Meego back in 2009, if the project experience demand they were going to continue their work for a full blown editor. Unfortunately, we all know what happened to those. However, I do wonder what would it prevent anyone to take the OO algoritm to manage ODF and port it to Java and skin it under the Android native Toolkit.
I think that was the goal of the URE, to have an engine separate from the product. However this engine didnt really acquire much demand, also I think it was a bit too bootstrap. At least thats the feedback I saw from the lists of devs when they tried to use it. A different effort on Andorid are the WebODF viewer (http://webodf.org/) which is available on the Google store on JS, I think is a rework of XUL ODFViewer http://odfview.webs.com/: Also there is already a AndrOffice which is mainly a spreadsheet, but they are working on making this a full fledge office suite. http://www.androffice.com On 10/11/12, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:10 PM, David Paenson <davepo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I keep on thinking: wouldn't it be wonderful if OpenOffice was >> available for tablets running Android? >> >> Yesterday I had to tell a student who had bought a cheap tablet >> including external keyboard she had better resell it and buy instead a >> netbook, so she could install OpenOffice for Linux or Windows. >> >> Could Google not be approached by OpenOffice programmers with an offer >> of the sort: >> >> "We OpenOffice programmers could and would port OpenOffice to android, >> but we of course need to be paid proper programmers' salary. A first >> working and tested edition would take us around 15 months, working as >> a group of 5 programmers." ? >> >> Google/Android has no proper office suite. Microsoft will probably >> never want to port their MS Office to Android, because that would be >> the end of Windows 8, and Apple is not really interested in Office >> software anyway, at least not for Android. >> >> So OppenOffice would dominate the market for Android tablets, which >> would be good for Google too :). >> > > Certainly Google would benefit from an Android office suite. But it > looks like they have gone with a different option: > > http://www.quickoffice.com/google_acquires_quickoffice/ > > -Rob > >> Yours >> Dave > -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
