Does anyone here know about any FOSS office suite for android? (lemmy.zip)

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Im searching for a FOSS office suite for android that is not cloud based and that lets me both view, create, and edit documents so far the only thing that i found that meets all those requirements is collabora, BUT IS TRASH!, i literally cannot even scroll down without it glitching out and sending me to a whole different part of the document!

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I started switching over to plaintext files with Markdown a few years ago. It's been great for interoperability. I don't need to use a heavy program on my desktop or phone. I can view, edit, whatever I need as long as I have terminal access.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

On mobile devices, text markup languages are the way to go. Viewing office suite documents is enough.. editing them is not easy. I have used groff, tex and latex, and typst recently (on Termux, obviously) with various degrees of success. I wonder when we will have FOSS apps that are as usable or more than Google's Docs and Sheets.

If your PDF viewer supports re-reading when file is changed (or reloading file every time app comes to foreground, I suppose), typst watch and that viewer open is the closest to a WYSIWYG I could get working.

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