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recommended setup for alfresco mobile

djnemo2 — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:48:01 GMT

Hi,Using Alfresco Mobile is recommended with, because as i tested with 4.2.d is deadly unstable with 4.2.e(latest version)is more stable than 4.2.d but i guess 4.2.c is more stable just asked to see what is the best config that all work well together ?- Which server version ?- Android Office apps ?-

Re: recommended setup for alfresco mobile

jm_pascal — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 08:56:03 GMT

Hello,

Alfresco Version : There's no specific requirements to run Alfresco Mobile except the principle the latest version is generally the best option.
So in other words the current latest version of Alfresco Community 4.2.e is the best choice.
Ps : The Android Application can connect to prior Alfresco 3.4.x to the latest one.

Office Application : In term of office application, I use personally the "quickoffice" application & "kingsoft Office" application. We didn't identify specific error associated to a specific 3rd party application. Nevertheless Known issues are available in this wiki page : https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Mobile_for_Android_:_Known_problems_with_3rd_party_application

Android Version : Anything up or equal to Android 4.0 is good.

Other configuration are the usual one : Enough memory space / RAM / Data networking

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Re: recommended setup for alfresco mobile

djnemo2 — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:00:21 GMT

Google QuickOffice ?
but it can open my files via alfresco but want to save them in google drive ?

Re: recommended setup for alfresco mobile

jm_pascal — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:19:50 GMT

Let me be more clear and explicit on how everything work together.

Alfresco Android Application can't open any file. It needs 3rd party application to open files. it works nearly the same as windows works. You need the application/software to open a specific file type. If you don't have this application it's not possible to open it.

Alfresco Android Application used what's called "Intent" to list applications able to open the file user has selected.
If there's applications inside the device, we display the list of application and the user can select is favorite application to open/edit the file. If not application, the application display an error message.

Let's focus on office document application now.
In Android application world, I distinct 3 kinds of application : "Viewer" / "Editor" / "Integrated Application"
<ul><li>"Viewer" office application are generally "lite" version or simple dedicated application. Their goal is only to view the document. You have to paid generally the "pro" version to be able to open the file in edit mode. It generally accept that a 3rd party application (like Alfresco Mobile) send a document to them to open it.</li>
<li>"Editor" : Allows the user to edit the file. It generally accept that a 3rd party application (like Alfresco Mobile) send a document to them to open it. User can modify, save it and Alfresco Mobile will "save it back" to Alfresco Server.</li>
<li>"Integrated Application" : Allows the user to edit the file. It generally accept that a 3rd party application (like Alfresco Mobile) send a document to them to open it but doesn't enable the "save back". Why ? There's a lot of reasons it can be for example to avoid the danger to corrupt the file during the save operation or to promote their internal storage system.</li>

Google QuickOffice (V6.x) is an Integrated Application. It's possible via Alfresco Mobile to send a document to open it but not to edit it. But if you goes from inside the QuickOffice Application to the folder where your document is it can open/edit/save it. It's the choice of the application.
Before that QuickOffice (V5.x) was a viewer/editor application with a free (read only) & pro (read/write) version that worked well with Alfresco. This is the one I mentioned in my previous version.

So if you look at an application to edit office document, you have to look more on other office suite like OfficeSuite, KingsoftOffice, PolarisOffice…