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Which Office App should I use for Nexus 7?

I installed a couple of Office Suite from Amazon Free App of the Day on my phone. I am wondering which one is the best for the Nexus 7. I can download other free alternative if it is even better. Thanks!
List of Office Suite that I have from Amazon:
OfficeSuite Professional 6
Quickoffice Pro
Documents to Go 3.0
Or should I go to a free one?

I like quick office pro, and I think I remember them being bought up by Google docs or something like that not too long ago. I can't remember I'll have to do some searching.
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Kingsoft office... And it is free
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I have Office Suite Pro that I got for free.... so that's my only choice.
I used Polaris on my old transformer and I liked it. There is a really good comparison between the various office apps some where online. I think someone from the Asus transformer forums did it.
Some allow you to only read and not edit. I can't see really having to edit or create documents on the go, but I guess some people do. As long as I can open them, I'm good. Since you have access to them all, won't you simply try each one and tell us what you like better?
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I have always used quickoffice pro on my 10" tablet, and I installed it on my nexus 7 and it works great. I also got those three office apps from amazon, and quickoffice pro seems to be the least buggy
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CloudOn is one of the best office apps I've seen, although you need to be on wifi and have a box, dropbox or Google drive account (or all 3) as it only reads from cloud storage. They match the office ui almost exactly and have support for Excel, Word, and Power Point docs. Also it only works on tablets.
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QuickOffice Pro HD is great, though you'll need to pull the APK off another device, it doesn't think it works on the N7.

Which office suite would be best for a student? I'm looking at Smart Office 2. Anyone tried it? I believe its on sale now for $1.98

Malikai_ said:
CloudOn is one of the best office apps I've seen, although you need to be on wifi and have a box, dropbox or Google drive account (or all 3) as it only reads from cloud storage. They match the office ui almost exactly and have support for Excel, Word, and Power Point docs. Also it only works on tablets.
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How did you get cloud on? When I go to it it says its not compatible...
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Here is the link to the comparison:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1085173

Quick office HD.
Think it shows not compatible in the play store, but it works fine.
You can link it to all your cloud storage accounts.
It has really advanced features that mean you can create documents as if they have been made on the PC.
I think quick office were acquired by Google not so long ago but I might be wrong on that.

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Kingsoft office... And it is free
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I have no idea how this is free. It's as full featured as the $15 apps. There are no ads or other bloatware.

Another vote for KingSoft, It's brilliant. I paid for it when they used to charge.
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+1 for Kingsoft it really is great. Like iElvis said, I have no idea how its free but its fully featured works great!
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Thanks for the king soft suggestion. It is much better than quick office pro I got for free on Amazon.
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ben1066 said:
QuickOffice Pro HD is great, though you'll need to pull the APK off another device, it doesn't think it works on the N7.
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I have no issues installing it from the amazon app store, i guess its a play store thing?
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Kingsoft office... And it is free
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I recently tried this app as well, I love it. I don't think anyone should spend money on an office suite app since this one is available
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+1 Kingsoft

I like king soft but its very laggy. Anyone else ?

I posted a thread exactly like this and the general consensus was Quick Office Pro HD. I got off Amazon since it doesn't show up in the Play store. It works awesome, integrates with Dropbox too.
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I have king soft installed and it works perfectly, haven't experienced any issues.
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Handwritting with Asus Supernote

The size of the N7 makes it idea for taking notes - I can hold the device in one hand and write with the other in a way that's not possible with a 10" sreen. Amusingly the best app I've found for this is Asus SuperNote, but the menu buttons that normally appear on the bottom of a 10" screen don't appear on a 7". Bumping build.prop's ro.sf.lcd_density from 213 to 170 (root req) fixes it, but a system wide change like that for compatibility of one app is a less-than-ideal-solution imo.
Anyone have any ideas for another possible fix?

Just wait on paranoidandroid. You can set DPI for individual apps
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I just tried this on Jr5, with the tablet ui mod and I had the nav buttons. It looked great, thanks for that.
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I sideloaded supernote on my N7 and noticed the navigation buttons were missing (I'm not rooted and thus running standard DPI).
My work around when in scribble mode I toggle to the keyboard to use backspace, enter key, or insert a space.
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Yes, and you can also do a large horizontal swipe from right to left for backspace / delete I think.
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Good point. I forgot about that capability.
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Ugh, I would pay Asus for a version that scales right. Here's hoping this comes bundled with a 7 inch tablet soon.
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Didn't someone say this is basically the same as freenote?
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cornelious2 said:
Didn't someone say this is basically the same as freenote?
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They have now.... thanks. Hmm, Freenote is a fraction of the size too and seems to have more options / is more configurable. Gonna check it out.
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Just want to tell you all, that there is an app called "Handwrite Free"! I like it better than freenote, better interface and options.

steCkmeiSter said:
Just want to tell you all, that there is an app called "Handwrite Free"! I like it better than freenote, better interface and options.
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There's another thread on note taking. I used to like Freenote the best, but in this other thread, someone pointed out Handy Note. It's not free, but well worth the one dollar. Finally something I can actually use, organize, share and backup. Check it out. I tried Supernote as well. Was not good enough for me.

Link to other thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1780015
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As was suggested early on, I think the idea of having configurable support for screen density of each app (or however you'd describe it) is the solution to this problem and others like it. For now I've suck with stock and the build.prop edit, but I'll probably be on a custom rom with this functionality before long.
Also, I've tried all of the alternate app suggestions in this thread as well as most in the other. There's a wide variety of apps to pick from - some with a little less functionality, some with way way too much more for my liking (and at 30+ megs installed, they'd better do more!).
As mentioned by a few people FreeNote is the best replacement for SuperNote in general design, but with more configurability and features, plus a smaller installed size to boot. However, all the apps I've tried do one curious little annoying thing "wrong" that SuperNote get's right... they misplace descenders (g j p q y) fully above the baseline.

is there now a way to run Supernote perfectly on the nexus 7? If so how would you go about doing that

Has anyone found a way to make it scale with ParanoidAndroid? I have tried 160dpi and different layouts, but never got it quite right :S
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If you continue to have issues with SuperNote, consider checking out Handy Note Pro. I found it to be more usable. Plus, there's more than a few user reviews on Google Play that said that they lost all of their work when the app borked.

I just watched a video on youtube about asus memo pad 7, in it they were using supernote lite and the memo pad 7 is a 7" tablet so it should be perfect for a n7.
Someone is bound to get a hold of that apk so I will be on the look out for that!
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pdrift said:
I just watched a video on youtube about asus memo pad 7, in it they were using supernote lite and the memo pad 7 is a 7" tablet so it should be perfect for a n7.
Someone is bound to get a hold of that apk so I will be on the look out for that!
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Interested in this

Me too, but can any of these apps save to Dropbox or custom folder on sd?
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You can create an Asus acc and backup there

Onlive desktop

Gentlemen,
I was wondering if anyone. Or could make this app work on our note 2. I saw an article about getting it working on the original note, and it included modifying the build prop to be able to download from play store (or just side load the apk, I guess), and modifying the dpi, both of which I know can be done once rooted.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!
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tallguywes said:
Gentlemen,
I was wondering if anyone. Or could make this app work on our note 2. I saw an article about getting it working on the original note, and it included modifying the build prop to be able to download from play store (or just side load the apk, I guess), and modifying the dpi, both of which I know can be done once rooted.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!
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Just download OnLive from the PlayStore...? I did and it runs fine (aside from my slow data speeds).

I agree with the above post.
The Android app has touch inputs for some games. If you have the onlive universal controller, than you can play any game that supports gamepads. Keyboard and mouse, maybe hit and miss. Maybe with a blue tooth keyboard and mouse.
What you're talking about, a lot of work that isn't going to give you better experience than what the Android app will give.

That,s on live
That,s onlive he is talking about (onlive desktop) there is a difference
one is for games the other for office use to different apps.

I don't believe the OnLive desktop is available on Android. I haven't seen anything about it being modded for android.
Unfortunately, it's just a miscommunication. There is the OnLive desktop client for the gaming service, and there is a OnLive Desktop service that's an additional fee. It was aimed at more the OSX and iOS people since it's Windows Server environment.

I used onlive desktop for some writing assignment on my transformer infinity so it definitely is for Android
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No there is an Onlive desktop, aimed for tablets (android and ios). I had it working on my old evo view.
I have the apk, but it won't run. It is on the play store (not the version to game on), and it states not available for this version.
Let me dig and find the url for how someone got it working for the original note
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Here's the link to how someone got it working on the OG note:
www.thewebisyours.com/how-to-get-onlive-working-for-galaxy-note-windows-7-on-android-phones/
And here's the. To an older apk:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23164470
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I adjusted my dpi 240 and downloaded it from the play store. Then used xposed installer app tweaks to set the dpi for onlive to 192. Works fine for me.
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Awesome! I'll try it shortly!
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XBMC + Tegra3 HW Acceleration

I know that this was posted in the news on the 18th but I just have to share it with everyone again. Its that good!!! Don't miss out
It runs a lot smoother than the stable build supplied to all android systems.
Update: test Jan 27th w/ HW acceleration is even more stable than the 21st release.
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/test-builds/android/xbmc-20130127-c34a6a1-android-hwaccel-armeabi-v7a.apk
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SkyboneNoya said:
I know that this was posted in the news on the 18th but I just have to share it with everyone again. Its that good!!! Don't miss out
It runs a lot smoother than the stable build supplied to all android systems.
Update: test Jan 27th w/ HW acceleration is even more stable than the 21st release.
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/test-builds/android/xbmc-20130127-c34a6a1-android-hwaccel-armeabi-v7a.apk
Original post https://plus.google.com/app/plus/x/a6pvwekwao8d/?v=stream&sspath=/app/basic/%2BCyanogenMod/posts&surl=cbp%3D9224abdidwt9%26sview%3D27%26stct%3DCAIQ_9aKpPyItQIgCigB%26spath%3D/app/basic/stream%26sparm%3Dcbp%253D1xp7psi8rlvsy%2526sview%253D27&resharing_mode=conf_not_needed&aid=z13oztzwdmayxffih04cc5q4knbyjh4hprg0k
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Wow, nice interface. Trying it out now.

Does it work with all ROMs? I'm currently using rasbeanjelly 2013-2-2
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If you wanna follow the development of this follow the original forum at http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=152005

Experimental hardware video decoding builds for Nexus 7
This development is great. Now I can watch 1080p movies via net on my Nexus 7!
Now I use version from 2013.02.19
xbmc-20130219-32e99c7-android-hwaccel-armeabi-v7a.apk
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http://mirrors.xbmc.org/test-builds/android/
It's more stable for me than the alpha2 from 2013.04.03.
Hope we will get soon Hardware acceleration on standard version xbmc.

rzepa10 said:
This development is great. Now I can watch 1080p movies via net on my Nexus 7!
Now I use version from 2013.02.19
xbmc-20130219-32e99c7-android-hwaccel-armeabi-v7a.apk
from
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/test-builds/android/
It's more stable for me than the alpha2 from 2013.04.03.
Hope we will get soon Hardware acceleration on standard version xbmc.
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+1

Even the navi x plugin works... This is awesome.
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I use my N7 to control my htpc/xbmc. No interest in running xbmc on my N7. To me that's just overkill. With a file manager that supports SMB I can watch anything on my NAS within a few seconds. It would have made more sense for these guys to keep the xbmc app the same and simply allow you to play it on your android. I got a mini android PC and tried xbmc on it but an actual PC does a better job period.
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Flukester69 said:
I use my N7 to control my htpc/xbmc. No interest in running xbmc on my N7. To me that's just overkill. With a file manager that supports SMB I can watch anything on my NAS within a few seconds. It would have made more sense for these guys to keep the xbmc app the same and simply allow you to play it on your android. I got a mini android PC and tried xbmc on it but an actual PC does a better job period.
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I stream several movies not only my PC but my nexus7 as well. They even stream from navi x . to you it may not be worth it or make sense but when you want to watch a movie somewhere or you have a child that wants to watch something while you dip something it is very handy. So makes great sense to me.
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savagehax said:
I stream several movies not only my PC but my nexus7 as well. They even stream from navi x . to you it may not be worth it or make sense but when you want to watch a movie somewhere or you have a child that wants to watch something while you dip something it is very handy. So makes great sense to me.
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Maybe the wrong thread but giving xbmc remote the ability to use the default media player on an android device would be welcome feature. To have the web add on in xbmc also support playback would be great. The default web addon is pretty plain as it is.
Maybe the current dev might see this as a nice and easy feature.
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Flukester69 said:
I use my N7 to control my htpc/xbmc. No interest in running xbmc on my N7. To me that's just overkill. With a file manager that supports SMB I can watch anything on my NAS within a few seconds. It would have made more sense for these guys to keep the xbmc app the same and simply allow you to play it on your android. I got a mini android PC and tried xbmc on it but an actual PC does a better job period.
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You must not worry about watched status ( or have kids using the TV). Every tv/device in my house has xbmc or openelec on it (including 2 still working Xbox 1s!)
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[Ubuntu Touch][2 days rewiew]

I had tried UT for 2 days and this is my conclusion: it's a fantastic system!
I based my vote in: UI, speed, connection(s), apps, others features.
UI 10/10
Ubuntu Touch have the most beautiful UI in the universe and I simply love it
Speed 6/10
Speed isn't the force point of UT (it is in an alpha build, it is laggy)
Connection 5/10
Gps and bluetooth have only screen image but they don't work really. 3g and wifi work quite well but they aren't fully fixed
Apps 5/10
The coreapps work very well but there aren't lots of apps for now (but you can find XDA and a Qr-Code reader)
Other Features 7/10
I love terminal because it use commands like ubuntu desktop and you can upgrade yours app quickly. System setting doesn't work correctly and system update doesm't work (it say there are a 20130834 update and it normally fail the download)
I wish I will try a stable image as soon as possible.
Cheers.
ScardracS
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Well.... Let me take this opportunity to ask- how usable is it? Can you daily driver it?
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Doubt it
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I think ubuntu mobile is at least another 2 years off being usuable as a daily driver, unfortunatley no one cares about ubuntu an they will never catchup to what google an apple or even windows have already let alone in the future.

It isn't for daily use, but mark sutthleworth said UT will stable for october and I wish They'll leave stable version as soon as possible
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