Would it be possible to use excel, and do whatever 'special' stuff as an add-in? Not sure if that is even a thing on office for android/ios.
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, I'm wondering how people in here might tackle a technical problem > we're about to encounter. People here often come up with surprising > lateral-thinking ideas. > > We'll soon start on an app rewrite so it runs on all brands of tablet > sized devices. We've been evaluating many development tools and languages > and so far it looks like Xamarin is in the lead. Our technical challenge is > to create Excel like behaviour in the app in the most realistic way > possible. We want to load an XLSX file, display formatted cells and charts, > updating cells and saving the changed document is a nice-to-have. > > There are no cross-platform native controls that mimic Excel, but there > are web/JS products like Google Sheets > <https://developers.google.com/google-apps/spreadsheets/?hl=en> and > GrapeCity's SpreadJS <https://spread.grapecity.com/Products/SpreadJS/> > which look like great candidates. They are of course HTML5 based, so they > would have to be embedded in the apps in browser controls. I'm not > normally that keen on "hybrid" apps that borrow web rendering, but I've > used Google Charts in a phone app and the result was acceptable. > > Any ideas or comments on this problem of getting Excel behaviour in native > apps would be most welcome. > > Thanks > *Greg K* > -- w: http://jcooney.net t: @josephcooney
