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Originally Posted by mdp
I just google'd for "kingsoft office download android", a link to the downloads page of kingsoftstore.com came out, there are a number of links there and one of them shows '5.12' on it, which is the version I noted above...
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This is incredible (naah, very credible, unfortunately). And frustrating.
Suspicious as I am, I went to that page to check the checksums, just to be provenly sure that we are referring to the same item. No need to check file fingerprints, since the file size is 50% what it was supposed to be: the link anchor there does show "Office for Android Free 5.12", but the link itself is for the latest version of Kingsoft-non-rebranded-as-WPS, version 9 something. They put different links to the same software. There is a difference. (They probably did so because between version series 5.x and version series 9.x they inserted, reportedly, a huge amount of adware. In that extra 50% of bulk there is probably little new Office Automation code - just saying)
This is also why I never use anything like "google play" etc. I keep the files I use in my own repositories, so that they cannot be lost for whatever reason.
Anyway, I found a site - "apkhere" - in which the whole historical collection is kept. As written, I almost exclusively worked with Kingsoft Office (cn.wps.moffice_eng.apk) 5.7 and 5.12 .
The site below hosts from 5.1.2 (Nov 2012) up to version 10.4.3, published two days ago (Aug 18). They graciously host the historical value of
67 versions. I will use a few of them to further assess the sluggishness problem on the MaxCarta with the latest firmware.
www.apkhere.com/app/cn.wps.moffice_eng