# Android app unable to edit document

**URL:** <https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/android-app-unable-to-edit-document/3566>\
**Category:** User Support\
**Created:** [April 1, 2025, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/android-app-unable-to-edit-document/3566 "2025-04-01T08:47:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 11:01am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/android-app-unable-to-edit-document/3566/3 "2025-04-01T11:01:16Z")

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Thanks for prompt response.

Github issue lodged [Android app cannot edit original copy of document · Issue #11492 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/11492)

I can only impress that this is a significant issue for your Android user base:

1. Its an obvious limitation to using Collabora. I (almost) may as well as use LibreOffice Viewer, or maybe another, commercial provider.
2. Its a gap in the Android ‘app ecosystem’ - its impossible to have trustworthy opensource office file editing on Android (without complications of a proliferating number of document copies, its own not-insignificant management task).

If Collabora isn’t providing the solution we need - opensource, trustworthy office apps, integrated with ubiquitous cloud solutions (all brands) - then you just aren’t servicing the vast, growing number of Android users out there.

I appreciate your resource constraints. Unfortunately I have my own. Partnering and Subscriptions cannot be justified, especially when I might have to spend money on a commercial closed-source solution instead.

A fully functional Android app would surely help the fortunes of your project.

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