{"id":510,"date":"2014-10-02T12:56:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T10:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/jaragunde\/?p=510"},"modified":"2015-03-05T11:09:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T10:09:19","slug":"libreoffice-on-android-4-document-browser-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/jaragunde\/2014\/10\/libreoffice-on-android-4-document-browser-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"LibreOffice on Android #4 \u2013 Document browser revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m borrowing the post title that Toma\u017e<\/a> and Andrzej<\/a> used before to talk about the work that I have lately been doing at Igalia regarding LibreOffice on Android.<\/p>\n

You might know there are several projects living under android\/experimental<\/em> in our code tree; it is exciting to see that a new experiment for a document viewer that uses a fresh approach recently arrived to the party<\/a>, which can be the basis for an Android editor. I was happy to add support to receive view or edit intents to the shiny new viewer, so we could open any document from other Android applications like file browsers.<\/p>\n

Besides, android\/experimental<\/em> hid some very interesting work on an Android-centric document browser that could be a good starting point to implement a native Android wrapping UI to LibreOffice, although it had some problems that made it unusable. In particular, thumbnail generation was making the application crash – for that reason I’ve disabled it until we get a proper fix – and the code to open a document was broken. Fixing and working around these issues were the first steps to bring the document browser back to life.<\/p>\n

I noticed that the browser was inconveniently dependent of the ActionBarSherlock library<\/a>, which is not really necessary now we are targetting modern Android versions with out-of-the-box action bar support. I replaced Sherlock ActionBars with Android native ones, and that allowed to remove all the files from ABS library<\/a> from our source tree.<\/p>\n

I also took the freedom to reorganize the application resources (design definitions, bitmaps and so), removing duplicated ones. It was the preparation for the next task…<\/p>\n

Finally, I merged the document browser project into the new viewer with this huge patch<\/a>, so they can be built and installed together. I also did the modifications for the browser to open the documents using the new viewer, so they become one coherent, whole application.<\/p>\n

Now both the viewer and the document browser can evolve together to become a true LibreOffice for Android, which I hope to see not too far away in the future.<\/p>\n

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