Developers begin work on LibreOffice for Android

From InfoWorld: Two companies have started working on a full-featured version of the free office suite LibreOffice for Android. They hope to have a beta version available in March.

It's too soon to say what features will be included in the beta version, said Italo Vignoli, spokesman at the Document Foundation, which leads the development. A series of beta builds with increasing advanced functionality will then be released over time. The foundation didn't say when it expected LibreOffice for Android to become generally available.

U.K. open source software company Collabora and Spanish Free Software consultancy Igalia have been handed the task of developing the technical framework, following a tender that was presented in September.

Once the beta software is available, the foundation hopes users will download and play with the application, and provide their feedback to help improve the quality of the software, Vignoli said in a blog post on Tuesday.

Last week saw the release of LibreOffice Viewer for Android, which lets users read Microsoft Office, Google Docs and Open Document Format files on their smartphones and tablets. That tens of thousands of people have already downloaded it confirms there is an interest for OpenOffice on Android, Vignoli said.

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