


Later, Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems and eventually ditched while submitting the code base to Apache. It was introduced as an open-source version of StarOffice (acquired by them initially) to compete with Microsoft Office. LibreOffice was based on (commonly known as OpenOffice). was a project developed by Sun Microsystems. Special thanks to hundreds of independent LibreOffice contributors, who have contributed to the source code since 2010. SUSE has provided a key foundation of cross platform support, and Mozilla Corporation several core components. The software is backed by a dynamic community, represented by The Document Foundation, a not for profit entity based in Germany.Ĭredits: LibreOffice Viewer has been developed by Collabora and Igalia, backed by Smoose, with contributions from Google Summer of Code students, in joint cooperation with The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice community.

LibreOffice Viewer is released under the Mozilla Public License v2.

This, combined with a new front end based on Firefox for Android, reads documents similarly to LibreOffice on the desktop. LibreOffice Viewer is using the same engine as LibreOffice for Windows, macOS and Linux. You can report bugs and attach files that trigger them here: (Visit the Settings to enable this feature.)įeedback and bug reports are very welcome, to help developers improve the quality of the application on its way to being a full-featured editor. LibreOffice Viewer also comes with a preview of the editing functionality, which is considered an experimental feature and not stable enough for mission critical tasks.
