Some folks on the BDS movement in latinamerica are starting to use our nextcloud as an alternative to google, but they are starting to be a little frustrated of not being able to edit the documents on their phone. Are there any experiences of collectives or individuals overcoming this problem? How do you edit from your phone?
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You can use the Nextcloud phone app to sync the file to your phone and then download the Only Office mobile app to edit the file locally and then sync back to Nextcloud. I have only done this a few times but it seems to work fine.
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In the OnlyOffice mobile app, you can set a nextcloud instance as a backend to manipulate the files directly without having to download them locally. I have been using that with the May First Nextcloud successfully for many years and am happy to answer questions about it.
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It will probably be difficult for some people to download and run the Nextcloud or OnlyOffice apps, usually for lack of memory or storage. Without any other app than the browser, we prefer to edit .md docs (+ New text file). of course it has some limitations compared to the OnlyOffice suite, but saves a lot of resources.
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Most mobile browsers have a “desktop mode” you can turn on – screenshot attached for enabling this in Firefox, and it looks very similar in Chrome.
This is not a great solution, but it does “work”: it lets you edit any document (such as onlyoffice .docx / .xlsx or nextcloud .md) just as you would edit them on desktop.
A big downside is that you can’t scroll very easily because the document page is not responsive to finger drag events (only mouse events). The best workaround is to pair a bluetooth mouse to your mobile device. If you don’t have a bluetooth mouse, then you can scroll by dragging directly on the document scroll bars (which are very tiny but yes it is possible to scroll the document using them).
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