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I searched this community and couldn't find anything about odt, I found a few odt viewers on F-Droid and Aurora when I searched 'odt', but the only editors for odt, were ironically the proprietary Google Documents and Microsoft Word.

Have you found anything else?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah, Collabora works great, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's a nice find. Odt, ods, and odp, seems to work fine both on phone and tablet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately, it's not available in the official F-Droid repository, but only by Collabora's own F-Droid repository. I don't want to trust other package managers except those of the official F-Droid repo.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

May I ask why? Using alternative sources from the vendors themselves usually isn't any less secure than using the official F-Droid repos. It's a common thing on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Has Collabora made its packages reproducible, so independent people can check if their package is built from the source code without modification?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Well it seems they don't publish a signing key, so that's a good reason against it.

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

But it's the official Collabora repo?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, but I don't want to trust a vendor when I have Open Source.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Collabora Office is the label on my Icon. Same as the name in Play. The Play publisher is Collabora Productivity limited. Rating 4.2 and user count 500K or more.

I do not actually use it much but a family member uses it all the time on their tablet. For me I use mostly Joplin for notes on Android.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've been using Collabora Office recently, you can get it through F-Droid but you have to add their repo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Another user also recommended that and it's been working great!

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

That's great!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Open Document Reader https://www.f-droid.org/packages/at.tomtasche.reader/

LibreOffice Viewer https://www.f-droid.org/packages/org.documentfoundation.libreoffice/

Havent used either. Just came up as I searched ODT, which I didnt know was a file type until a moment ago. Idk why it wont show for you?

Ps. Idk if these are editors or just readers

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

One of them says Reader, the other says Viewer. I have seen both of them, and neither are editors, which is what I'm looking for.

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

ONLYOFFICE is quite good, although it prefers DOCX.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

AndrOpen Office is an Android port of LibreOffice. It's not on Fdroid, but Aurora has it. It works perfectly fine for me, although the UI is not android specific.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Ads are a deal breaker for me, so I'll continue using Collabora, but thanks!