14 DAY TRIAL // LibreOffice 5.0 was released a week ago, and one of the things mentioned in the announcement was the fact that it's a cornerstone of the mobile clients for Ubuntu Touch and Android. A developer wanted to clarify what that actually meant.
When users first saw the official announcement for LibreOffice 5.0, they started to hope that the office suite might make it to the mobile platforms as well, especially on Ubuntu Touch. Unfortunately, the statement was a little vague, and this is not what the developers from The Document Foundation want to do.
In all fairness, porting the entire office suite to Ubuntu Touch (or Android for that matter) is a monumental task, and it would have been very hard to pull off. No one is saying that it won't happen someday, just that it's not happening yet. This is what developers meant by "cornerstone" in that context.
"At the moment our current focus is the desktop since we don't have yet a LibreOffice 5.0 build running on a Ubuntu smartphone. Björn Michaelsen is helping us with this so that we will be able to distribute LibreOffice though a Click package. This should happen at a certain point this month: as soon as it is ready, we'll certainly release further informations on how to test DocViewer on a mobile device," wrote Stefano Verzegnassi on his blog.
Having a functional Document Viewer that can read pretty much any type of format, even if it can't perform any kind of edit function, is a big step forward.