title: Graphs and Charts from Excel
body: <p>I want to display graphs and charts generated from an Excel spreadsheet, on my Android device.  As far as I can see, my choices are:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Export the number data from Excel, and graph it on the device using a package like AChartEngine.</p></li>
  <li><p>Export XML data from Excel, and graph it on the PC (using some other graphing package?) or graph it on the device (using some other graphing package?)</p></li>
  <li><p>Create the graphic interactively on a PC using Excel, and take a screen snaphot.  Send that file to the device for display in an ImageView</p></li>
  <li><p>arrange for the data to be a page on a web server, rather than in an Excel spreadsheet file.  Read from the page from the server and graph on the device, as in step 1.</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Are there other alternatives to consider?  </p>
  
  <p>Are there any approaches which could be shared on other platforms, too, like for iOS and RIM</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for any suggestions - it seems like this should be a solved problem.</p>