On 10 February 2015 at 12:15, Max Mehl max.mehl@fsfe.org wrote:
I also have both apps. In addition to Sam's list:
- Both have a similar performance in my tests
- LO Reader needs much more disk space than OO Reader
- OO Reader has some display problems with odt and ods files. For example missing page headers or wrong width of spreadsheet columns.
- Vice versa I noticed no display bugs with LO Reader so far, even with more complex documents
Hopefully the space requirements do not grow too much in future versions of LO. If they can regulate that, it'll become a very good reader (and editor) indeed.
Cutting the size down was one of the huge headaches in porting LO to Android. This work has been going on for *years* ...
There's more interesting technical details here: http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2015-01-21-android-viewer.html
Another effort is AndrOpenOffice, which is an Android port of Apache OpenOffice 3.4. It's not that great to use, but it does exist and work.
- d.