Collabora Office on iOS

by Tor Lillqvist At: FOSDEM 2019 https://video.fosdem.org/2019/UA2.114/collabora_office_on_ios.webm After several years of only occasional progress but mostly stagnation, resources have now been available for work on a LibreOffice-based app for iOS. This talk will describe the history and technical aspects of the effort. Collabora Office for iOS is based on the C++ server-side code for Collabora Online (based on LibreOffice Online), and JavaScript code for the same (browser-side). Plus the core of Collabora Office (i.e. LibreOffice). Plus, finally, a rather small amount of glue code in Objective-C++. In the app all this code runs on the device, there is no server involved. Work on enabling compiling the LibreOffice core for iOS (cross-compiling, on a Mac, as all iOS development is done) was started originally back in 2011, by me. Initially this was mostly done in spare time, for fun. There was initially no clear product plan and no technical exact plans how, once the core code wor