What is the extension you need ? Docx .. Odt… txt… ..
Onlyoffice is an AGPL lv3 app,but not on fdroid,you may get it from apkmirror.
The function of mobie appis limited, forprofesisional functiom, use web vwr witdesktop ua.
@wpeckham @maoist2009 The problem with these two items is that it requires Google Play and I prefer to go F-Droid. I can consider direct download or other repos, but wish to bypass Google. Worst case scenario, I use NextCloud and some office variant therein. Am not a fan of Zoho, and trust NextCloud slightly more, but prefer local apps.
So, according to those posting here, getting a wp functioning on F-Droid is not trivial. LibreOffice Reader is as close as it gets. Maybe a crowdfunding to get this accelerated is in order? If others besides me feel this is important.
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I think that there has not been very much incentive except on the part of the commercial software houses to produce a true writing tool for a platform that by default does not have a keyboard. Try something like Joplin. If that does not do the job for you, perhaps you need a laptop for the mobile writing you want to do. Even the best commercial alternatives seem rather crippled on Android. Almost as if the platform does not support that functionality well. Pity, that.
@wpeckham Gramps. If what you say was true, that no one would dare pair a bluetooth keyboard and mouse with a mobile device (unheard of!), then there would not be over one billion downloads of the Android Microsoft Word App, alone. Am not sure if you have read books from the last few years, but a great many of them were written on mobile devices (not a laptop). What I am asking is not so outlandish and is quite common. It is just that it is not available on F-Droid, yet. When these days, headphone jacks are no longer a thing with mobile devices, it is not such a great leap. IPad, and Android tabs connected to Google Play have this, therefore F-Droid theoretically can too. In war zones, like Ukraine, many kids have to use mobile devices as laptops are scarce.
The trouble with such so called android apps differs from individual to .. & from device to …
I hate using phone as 90% of the things for me do not work the way I would intend it to. However, I cannot always sit in front of a computer as well.
Also, what he stated has a ring of truth in it.
All of this is very interesting, but it doesn’t help there be more or better word processing apps of the kind you might need available to or through F-Droid. Sorry. Any developers interested in addressing this?
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If you want full write-and-format capabilities on F-Droid, Collabora Office is currently the most reliable option. It supports editing .odt and .docx files locally, without relying solely on a web service. Another option is AndrOpen Office, which is a port of OpenOffice for Android and allows offline editing of rich text documents. Most other F-Droid apps focus on notes rather than true word processing.
as far as I understand the OP does not want to just edit a text file but to write/create a text file. And as far as I know thereˋs not a single option for that in the whole android world, neither play store nor f-droid …
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…includes a text editor. From the main program, one can tap on the plus button and create a blank text file, then open it, edit it and save it.
I think the OP was asking for word processing not creating text files, there are dozens of apps that edit plain text.
EDITOR can also create new files, but appears to no longer be maintained.
There is a difference between LibreOffice Writer document and Emacs. If one is working on a writing manuscript, for example, LibreOffice Writer is a much nicer option. So, if you have say a tablet and and a bluetooth mouse / keyboard and are not a part of the Google Android ecosystem and just use F-Droid, there really is not much of an option and that is a shame.
@MAU LibreOffice Viewer has experimental editing features. (Experimental mode can be enabled in the app settings.)
You can also create new files by clicking on the floating plus button that appears after enabling experimental features.
Have you tried it yet?
Yes, I am aware of this and it is unusable. There are also reports that it breaks your odt file. But when I type on it, it plays a game of ‘now you see your text and now you don’t!’ So I need to wait for a new iteration that works and does not break odt files.
Just a note, there was a LibreOffice Viewer update yesterday and it is still unusable. Same game of ‘now you see the text, now you don’t!’ This means using LOV as a Word Processor is low priority and not viable at this time. It would be nice if some such WP app is made as word processing is one of the staple activities one does with a computer.
For those who say, “I do not want to tap a long document onto a screen”, there are these wonderful items called ‘bluetooth keyboards’ (and mouse) a technology that lets you wirelessly connect to a mobile device be it a phone, tablet or phablet.
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