2013/6/22 Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmas...@krackedpress.com>: > > I downloaded Apache's Open Office for Android from Google Play. > > I have a Nook HD+, with a 9 inch display, i.e. 7.5 inches wide display, with > 16 gig internal. > > After the initial load/splash screen, I waited for over 4 minutes and I > still could not get the keyboard or any other controls to work. So I tried > to use the "back button" to exit the "app" but it would not work. I had to > use the Nook Button to go to my "Home" screen to get out of that frozen AOO > screen. > > AOO-Android used the full top menu bars that you would see in a normal > install of AOO or LO on Windows or Linux. Those menu bars on the top of the > screen was so small, even my tablet pen could not touch only the needed > option. It touched the options all around it as well. Now, I have a 9 inch > tablet. It would even be worse on a 7 inch tablet. > > So, here is my opinion about what LOfor Android should be like. > > 1] Forget trying to have the full width top menu bars visible at the same > time. Maybe have it be on some type of left/right scroll. > > 2] Make the menus large enough to easily see and use on a 7 inch tablet. > AOO's was too small for even a 9 inch one. > > 3] Try and make it open, to the point you can start typing, in less than 2 > minutes, if possible. If not, warn the user it may take "x" number of > minutes to load up completely. > > 4] Do not try to make LO-Android do too much. People need a basic office > package to do some quick things. It should not be areplacement for a desktop > or laptop system. > > 5] Make sure there is enough room between the top menu bar[s] and the > tablet's default keyboard, without making the menus and control icons too > small to use properly and easily. > > 6] Make it able to run on a tablet that has a "smallRAM" and slower CPUs, > compared to the top of the line tablets. Not all tablets have dual core > CPUs with 2+ gig of RAM and 4+ gig internal storage. My old one does not > even come close. > > I do not know what people really need to do on a tablet, for their office > package needs. What type of features and options are really needed, or > wanted. Sure, you will need to be able to display the ODF and OOXML [07-13] > documents. But what editing options will you need? > > I just bought my first tablet that used Google Play. My last one was a 7 > inch that used Amazon and other app stores, but it was a low end one. This > new Nook HD+ was 44% off for the week of 9th through the 15th, Father's Day > Salepricing was the only way I could afford to get one of these better > tablets. I am still learning what this better tablet can do and what apps I > might want or need. Right now, I do not want a packagelike AOO for Android. > > So, I do not know how far the team is on the LO for Android app, but > hopefully they will not make the same mistakes as Apache did with their > version.
This is a little confusing to me. You mention LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice for Android, but as far as I know there is no Apache OpenOffice for Android, so I guess you are talking about LibreOffice all the time, right? Johnny Rosenberg -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
