The LibreOffice community is working on a web version of their office suite as well as on official ports to Android and iOS.

The developers behind LibreOffice have [...] revealed plans to deliver mobile ports of the office suite. Android and iOS versions of LibreOffice are under development and are expected to arrive late in 2012 or early in 2013. The initial porting effort will focus on the tablet form factor, but phone versions could be developed later. The mobile ports are based on the efforts of Tor Lillqvist. He discussed the challenges of cross-compiling LibreOffice for other platforms in a blog post earlier this year. The strategy he lays out is to port underlying implementation code, but create platform-specific user interfaces. He has already successfully demonstrated that it is possible to compile LibreOffice code for iOS in Xcode.

Another impressive project that the LibreOffice development community is undertaking to expand the availability of the office suite is LibreOffice Online, which allows users to run the office suite in a Web browser through the Canvas element. It uses Broadway, an HTML5 backend for the Gtk+ development toolkit. Because it depends on WebSocket and the Canvas element, it doesn’t work in all mainstream browsers yet. Michael Meeks, the Novell developer who is prototyping LibreOffice Online, has published a compelling demonstration.

The LibreOffice community is working on a web version of their office suite as well as on official ports to Android and iOS. The developers behind LibreOffice have revealed plans to deliver mobile ports of the office suite. Android and iOS versions of LibreOffice are under development and are expected to arrive late in ...