Can LibreOffice Base run on an iPad? Thanks.
There is no LibreOffice for the iPad.
There’s LibreOffice / Collabora Office for iOS though, that should include iPad, no?
LibreOffice for Android and iOS | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft
Anybody out there actually using this? I’ve never come across any user of LO in the cloud. Can they print form letters? If so, there might be something like Base under the hood. The infamous “native Base database” (embedded HSQL) is certainly not designed for cloud computing.
You are confusing things. Collabora Office for iOS is not Collabora Online.
Apart from that and off-topic, yes, people are using Collabora Online, specifically with Nextcloud.
OK. But what could be the answer to this question? The website is just marketing blah, and I won’t install Collabora on my iPhone.
Collabora Office for Android & iOS - Collabora Office and Collabora Online mentions Writer, Calc and Impress only. Given that most users need Base for mail merge and mobile apps to transfer data to any place, I would create serial letters, labels and such on a desktop and export the result to a document (or pdf)) that can be printed on a printer elsewhere.
Indeed, apparently Base is not part of the Android/iOS suite.
There is a port of Open Office to iOS/iPadOS made by a Japanese developer. You get it from the App Store either free or (as a Pro version) for a small fee.
It works just fine, it’s no butchered app like most apps are (MS Office, Collabora), but it’s a port running locally with much the same functionality the desktop version has.
Excuse an old man, I didn’t notice the Base thing. With Base, you have bad luck. It requires JRE or some other Java stuff. The easiest way is to run it on a remote server (Linux VPS are not that expensive) and connect to it from an iPad.
No. That’s some kind of myth.
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True: one of/the default database is HSQLDB, wich is itsekf written in Java. To use it you need Java obviously. But to use .csv, .xls, .ods or dbase-files you need no Java. Also you can connect to databases with odbc-drivers (I use this for sqlite) and there are even native drivers for example to MatiaDB. All this nerds no Java. But, if you wish to use jdbc-connectors (j for java), then expect to need java.
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Reports is a second “problem”. The default engine is written in Java. Without Java there is an older module available (some will recognize it from OpenOffice) and you can simply use Writer and especially Calc also as reporting-engine.
While you can find workarounds, the problem is that you might want to use a Base with data, reports, and forms you have created on a desktop/laptop. You’d simply like to be portable, and multiplatform.
If you want to make things portable, OS agnostic, and collaborative, you’d better stray away from Base (and Access) and use Google Sheets/Forms. In the web interface, not in the app. Google Workspace works wonders, but that’s out of the scope of this discussion.