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There is an Android port. It is... Interesting. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andropenof...

...wow. Looks like they just tried to copy the UI from desktop _exactly_. I guess it's pretty hard to get the manpower to develop mobile apps as well as the desktop version of such a large OS project.

As far as I recall, that's the same Chrome does on Windows 8 with the Metro mode. It looks identical to the desktop version, down to tiny toolbar buttons you can't reliably hit with a finger, etc.

Good lord that looks rubbish, but also quite charming. I can't help but look at it and smile.

Well, it's ugly, but I don't doubt it's useful if you're on a tablet.

AndrOpenOffice is a port of of Apache OpenOffice, not LibreOffice. It's ... a bit of a dancing bear.

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