AndrOpen brings the full OpenOffice suite to Android devices
OpenOffice is without doubt one of the popular Microsoft Office alternatives. A lot speaks for it, including that it is cross-platform and open source.
Since that is the case, developers can create forks of the application. AndrOpen Office is such a fork. What makes it special is the fact that it is not supporting systems that OpenOffice is already available on, but Android, a system where OpenOffice has not been made available on yet officially.
AndrOpen Office has a size of 80 Megabytes. Once downloaded and installed, you have the full power of the OpenOffice application at your disposal on your Android device.
The app ships with the six components Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base, which are all accessible from the application's start screen.
Android OpenOffice app
Here you can select to create a new document, or open an existing document instead. It is rather interesting to note that the port supports not only native OpenOffice document formats, but also all other formats supported by the Office suite including Microsoft Office document formats (both old and new).
Depending on how fast your device is, it may take a while to load the document. You may also notice that smaller screens are not ideal if you want to edit documents, as the virtual keyboard is displayed on the screen as well. I guess that is less of an issue if you are using a tablet, but editing was not pretty on my Galaxy Note II.
The creation of new documents on the other hand worked flawlessly, as did the opening of supported document formats.
As mentioned earlier, one of the strengths of the port is that you can load virtually all formats supported by the desktop version of OpenOffice on your Android phone or tablet as well.
While it is possible to open most document formats in the application, the saving of documents is as limited as it is on the desktop. While you can save to doc, xls or text formats, you cannot save to new Office 2007 formats such as Docx, Xlsx or Pptx among others.
Still, for a mobile application, support is quite good. Several touch-based control options have been added to the app to take advantage of touch screens. Single, double and long-taps for instance emulated left-, double- and middle-clicks. You can also move to drag and drop, pinch in or out to show or hide buttons, and long tap on the x button to forcefully exit the application.
Closing Words
AndrOpen Office is a stable port of OpenOffice to Android. While you have to cope with ads displayed in the application, its support for everything that is supported by OpenOffice catapults it right to the forefront of all Android Office suites.
While others may offer better manageability on smaller screens, or better touch controls, OpenOffice for Android excels by bringing the full experience of the Office suite to the mobile operating system.
If you are looking for a Word processing application that can handle any document format you throw at it, you may want to give this one a try.
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Thanks for the tip Martin.
It is for these kinds of posts that I follow GHacks.
What’s up with the generic comment, are you a bot?
2G?
Where on the planet is that still in use? I was forced to give up using my RAZRV3 years ago because 2G was phased out by AT&T.
Everywhere 3G has been turned off and you don’t have LTE coverage, and believe me there are many developed countries where this is the case and if it weren’t for 2G you wouldn’t even be able to make a phone call.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t believe tha term “2G” is in the article. Perhaps you are referring to “AGM G2”??
@Martin
Your website has gone insane.
When I the post button I then saw my comment posted on a different article page. When I opened this article again, it is here.
@Tachy @Martin Brinkmann
” Your website has gone insane. ”
Same here. Has happened several times.
@Tachy,
@Martin P.,
For over two weeks now,
I’ve been seeing “Comments” posted by subscribers appearing in different, unrelated articles.
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572991
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572951
For the time being,
it would be better to specify the “article name and URL” at the beginning of the post.
@tachy a lot of non-phone devices with a sim in them rely on 2G, at least here in europe.
Usually things reporting usage or errors/alarms on something remote that does not get day to day inspection in person. They are out there in vast numbers doing important work. Reliable, good range. The low datarate is no problem at all in those cases.
3G is gone or on its last legs everywhere, but this stuff still has too much use to cancel.
Anyhow, interesting that they would put that in. I can see the point if you suspect a hostile 2G environment (amateur eavesdroppers with laptop, ranging up to professional grade MITM fake towers while “strangely” not getting the stronger crypto voip 4G because it is being jammed, and back down to something as old ‘stingray’ devices fallen into the wrong hands).
But does this also mean that they have handled and rolled out a fix for that nasty 4G ‘pwn by broadcast’ problem you reported earlier this year? I had 4G disabled due to that, on the off chance that some of the local criminals would buy some cheap chinese gear, download a working exploit and probe every phone in range all over town in the hope of getting into phones of the police.
>”While most may never be attacked in stingrays, it is still recommended to disable 2G cellular connections, especially since it does not have any downsides.”
The downside would be losing connectivity. I spend a lot of time way out in the countryside where there’s often no service or almost none. My network allows 2G, and I need it sometimes. I have an option on the phone to disable 2G, I may do that when I’m in the city and I have good 5G connectivity, but not out in the country.
I would imagine that the stingray exploits, like most of the bad things in this world, are probably things you will run into in the crowded big cities.
I stopped using it in a mobile (Wi-Fi line) environment, so I’m almost ignorant of the actual situation,
But the recent reality in Japan makes me realize that “the infrastructure of the web is nothing more than a papier-mâché fiction”.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/17/google-chrome-to-enable-https-first-by-default-for-all-users/#comment-4572402
It is already beyond the scope of what an individual can do.
What we should be aware of is the reality that “governments and those in power want to control the world through the Web”, and efforts to counter (resist and prevent) such ambitions are necessary.
Why do you want people to disable the privacy features? Hmmmmm?
Now You: do you plan to keep the Ads privacy features enabled?
I’d like to tell you, but apparently if you make a post critical of Google, you get censored. * [Editor: removed, just try to bring your opinion across without attacking anyone]
@Martin
You website is still psychotic. Comments attach to random stories.
@Martin please do fix the comments, it’s completely insane commenting here! :[
@Martin
The comments are seriously messed up on gHacks now. These comments are mixed with the article at the below URL.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/18/android-how-to-disable-2g-cellular-connections-to-improve-security/
And comments on other articles are from as far back as 2010.
What does this article has anything to do with all the comments on this article? LOL I think this Websuite is ran by ChatGPT. every article is messed up. Some older comments from 2015 shown up in recant articles, LOL
The picture captioned “Clearing the Android Auto’s cache might resolve the issue” is from Apple Carplay ;)
How about other things that matter:
Drop survival?
Screen toughness?
Degree of water and dust protection?