Kruisselbrink: Calligra on Android

[Posted January 12, 2012 by jake]

On his blog, Marijn Kruisselbrink reports on getting Calligra Mobile working on Android. In it he describes various problems he ran into in porting the mobile office suite, including a lack of DBus and KSyCoCa support in Android. "So after some (sometimes frustrating) hacking, I've got the first results: Calligra Mobile running on an android tablet. There are still lots of rough edges, and not everything works correctly, but as you can see in these screenshots, it does actually run and work. To get to this point I had to make some rather ugly hacks though to work around some of the android limitations." (Thanks to Inge Wallin.)

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Kruisselbrink: Calligra on Android

Posted Jan 13, 2012 21:32 UTC (Fri) by alecs1 (guest, #46699) [Link] (1 responses)

Being able to run applications that I'm used to (the KDE suite for example) really adds to the incentives of buying an Android phone instead of the competition. Now that Motorola Pro+ has finally appeared as an alternative that can compete to the Nokia phones like E6, I'll probably make the step to Android at last.

Kruisselbrink: Calligra on Android

Posted Jan 16, 2012 22:22 UTC (Mon) by mastro (guest, #72665) [Link]

FYI, I've found that with a good keyboard app (e.g. I use SlideIT: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dasur.slideit but there are others) it's much faster to "type" on a touchscreen than on a small physical keyboard, because you can "draw" an entire word with a single gesture (and pretty good integrated heuristics/error correction).

You can get close to one word per second on these slide/swipe keyboards apps.

Of course YMMV.