Free and Open Source Software

17505 readers

362 users here now

If it's free and open source and it's also software, it can be discussed here. Subcommunity of Technology.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Office apps for Android? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

12 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I'm looking to replace WPS Office which comes by default with Xiaomi phones, what FOSS alternatives do you recommend?

I'm also open to proprietary apps as long as they're substantially better than the FOSS alternatives

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/documents-app-android

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Curious, I went to the website and they didn't seem to advertise being open source too much.

Thanks for the link!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It's open source but only because in this way they can use GPL 3 libraries. The repositories have missing resources and you can't compile it by yourself.

Not that I wanted to waste a whole week trying to compile an office suite, but for example I wanted to fix a translation, and that's not public. You have to contact them by email and suggest the translation fixes as the language translation repository is only under NDA

This said, better than nothing, and at least they don't try to pretend they're as open as LibreOffice. On their website they're targeting enterprises and being open source it's a side note.

They're not like Proton where they boast being fully open source, sponsoring articles on itsfoss, but then the most important part, the server, is secret and proprietary and anyway good luck understanding how to compile the client from a giant all-in-one repo with no documentation