*ANY* word processing or rich text editor or even usable text editor on F-Droid?

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Am looking for a word processor to use via F-Droid. A rich text editor or .odt file writer would be great. So far, there is none. LibreOffice has the LibreOffice Viewer and if you go into ‘experimental mode’, apparently you can edit text. However, they warn it can damage your files if you do use it to edit. I have the latest update and cannot even see text when typing. So this is not a viable option.

Tried Emacs, and it is buggy on F-Droid and not really usable either. Thunderbird or K9 email client crashes when you create long documents. Not fun when writing out longer emails.

Would love to use the mobile device to…write.

The only route seems to be to use a web office program, like NextCloud Collabora, where you have to pay a subscription to host and use the office document application. Or, one of the myriad of on-line writing programs that falls far short of what something like LibreOffice lets you do on a regular computer.

This is surprising as word processing is a fairly basic tool for computers (what our mobiles devices essentially are) and it would be great to have the ability to write and store documents locally on said devices.

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We have 100000 notes apps, use those.

You want to open DOCX files? The specs have 10000 pages…

In the mean time get Collabora: Collabora Office for mobile now available on F-Droid - Collabora Online and Collabora Office

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Oh, my mistake. I was not clear. I do not want a note taking app, I want to write and format documents. Two separate things. Thanks!

Libreoffice Viewer can already read odt. I want to write. Read and write are two different things. Thanks again!

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any of em actually good?

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Kids these days either use html/css if they want to impress someone, or something simpler like markdown for mundane stuff, so you’re more likely to find something for those. Markor seems ok as long as it’s short articles or some such, but it would choke trying to load and edit a book, for that I have to run back into my termux cave and use vim.

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Okie. I would like to request a word processor for fdroid…as long as Google allows us to have an fdroid…

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If you just want to write rich text, there are many markdown editors. If you want to edit docx, there are only Libreoffice and OpenDocument.

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huge apk, lags like a **** on a 400kb txt file, backwards ui couldn’t figure out how to cut text, it told me my browser does not support clipboard, and the dev is a trademark troll? the absolute state of android

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It helps when you contribute, that’s the FLOSS spirit

I’ve spoken with the LibreOffice head and they would like LibreOffice Viewer to be the best one, but it’s a long way up to there.

If you speak about Collabora, yes, that’s basically the online version of LibreOffice in a Webview (no joke), I’m glad that it works sometimes, but I understand it’s “heavy”.

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well it doesn’t lag on my text file (though had to pandoc it to odt, cause it would refuse to open otherwise), so that’s better than anything else I tried so far. The experimental editing doesn’t work as OP mentioned and I don’t want to know why, smells like feature creep or bad tech stack, not very welcoming to contribution, I much rather contribute some basic editing tools to lagrange gemini browser, the only other app I found that can open the text file (and it’s one step ahead of libre office, cause I don’t have to pandoc) lol

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LibreOffice Viewer in the true Android app, not an Editor-in-a-Browser, so we have high hopes. Not sure about the rest of your comments…:expressionless:

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Am not sure why this is marked as ‘solved’ when it is not. Still waiting for a wp that works.

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Not a solution, thanks.

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14 posts were merged into an existing topic: What types of apps are you missing from the FOSS ecosystem?

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4 posts were merged into an existing topic: What types of apps are you missing from the FOSS ecosystem?

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This an old thread and someone might have marked it as such. It is kept open and that marking does not matter for this thread.

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Also, this is a discussion thread where we want to understand what is missing. That does not mean we have the option to add them, instead we aim to find alternatives and if any developer deems he or she can manage to build one such, it gets into motion (hopefully).

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I tried to explain below. This is a discussion thread about the android ecosystem and what you do not have in the open source world compared to proprietary world. The word processor, pixel art and several other come under this single thread to have a better community engagement and wider coverage. Every forum aims to merge similar or themed topics. That helps manage things better.

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