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Best Android spreadsheet editor? (beehaw.org)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I tried Collabora on a Galaxy Droid and it was such a massively buggy disappointment: in a .ODS file, I couldn't backspace more than once; I could only delete one character at a time. I had to enter another character or move the cursor or do something else before it would take another backspace. I don't understand how this app has as high reviews as it does, or no one has used its spreadsheet editor.

I so far can't get away from Google Drive because tables are absolutely critical to my work... Any ideas to help de-Google would be deeply appreciated!

Update: The search continues, as ONLYOFFICE did not work out either and similarly had file-editing problems. For now, I've resorted to .TXTs...

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

~~You could give ONLYOFFICE a try. It defaults to Office Open XML formats, but it can read and edit OpenDocument files just fine.~~

EDIT: electro1 has just told me that ONLYOFFICE has trackers. One look on Exodus and, sure enough, they're right. Sorry!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Shame it has all those built in trackers...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Wait, WHAT‽

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Like what? Could they be nullified if we just disabled its Internet access?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Facebook and Google trackers.

I believe yes, disabling network access will disable the trackers ability to report to their server, a Calyx developer told me this, but do your own research

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, thanks. Apparently the low reviews are from prior years before they stepped up their game, from what I can tell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A user by the name of electro1 has just told me that apparently it now contains trackers. I had no idea. Sorry.

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.onlyoffice.documents/latest

I'll keep an eye out to see if anything else turns up that's FOSS, but doesn't spy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Bonus if it can edit .sc files, a-la the best spreadsheet editor, sc-im.