what am I doing wrong?

[ritaxis]

I got this Nexus tablet to travel with but I can't work on my files with it. Mostly it just won't open things. When it does open things, everything is apparently read-only. I have tried four different apps: "document viewer," naturally only for viewing: kingsoft office, which a friend of mine uses to edit just fine: android office: and android open office.  There is just no responsiveness at all: I can view the text, and scroll around in it -- but the onscreen buttons don't work.

These are files from dropbox and google drive, and only the .rtf ones, not the .doc ones. The .doc ones produce a grey field where the text should be. When I was trying this with kingsoft, I got errors with .rtf, but the docs would open.

I have spent hours and hours and hours on this. I am actually heartbroken. The whole point of spending money I didn't have was to edit my files while I am traveling.

Comments

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Strong rec: look for Softmaker Office (www.softmaker.de). Their apps are also available via the Google Play store -- TextMaker, PlanMaker, and Presentations. TextMaker (the WP) is the best WP I've found on Android in terms of getting stuff done (rather than looking pretty and barely reformatting text); it can open and edit OpenDocument, RTF, Word .doc and .docx, and so on. It can interoperate with Dropbox directly, loading and saving from Dropbox storage over the air (once you've logged into Dropbox from within one of their apps).

You may also want a decent keyboard -- either a bluetooth keyboard and mouse (plus a stand) for use at a desk, or something like Swype or SwiftKey for text input on the move. I'd strongly recommend paying for Swype; it comes with Dragon Dictate speech recognition and Swype gestural input built in, and is sold by Nuance (i.e. the folks behind Dragon and Apple's Siri).