MS Word .Doc Files

[treehousefrog]

Hey guys,

I'm sure this must have come up a million times but I've searched the forum high and low and found nothing...

Basically I *really* would like to allow my users to open/save .doc files using a text-editor built into my app. I'm pretty sure there's no library to support this (as I said, I searched high and low!) but I wonder what other methods there are I could use?

For instance, I'm willing to just learn how the formatting works and try and create my own reader/converter, but could someone please point me in the direction of how that works?

Alternatively I've been looking at the Google Drive API with interest but haven't really had much luck figuring it out. Would that allow me to display the Google Docs app on the screen so that users could open and edit files when online?

Or is there another solution anyone could point me in the direction of? Even an open-source Javascript app I could run in a webview would be great at this point!

Thanks a lot guys, sorry if this is one of those annoying questions that always comes up...

 

[Erel]

I think that your best option is to install a third party app that supports Word files and then start it with an intent.

The Doc format is probably a complicated format...