ANDROID TEXT EDITOR HOW TO
Although it looks like most people don't know how to check permissions of an app in the first place. I got dozens of suggestions for text editors after I published this. If you know one, let me know! I will keep this page updated (and announce it on Twitter) if anything comes up. So I don't know if there is a friendly, simple text editor for Android out there. Unfortunately, there is no way to search for permission on the play store. Jota has too many buttons on the screen and even managed to crash in a desktop like fashion, showing me an OS dialog, saying the app is unresponsive and asking if I want to wait or force kill it. I know Coastline from previous Android versions, but it fails to write files in mysterious ways on Android 11. Bad enough, but even those seem to not be an option. I found some very old text editors still on the play store that only want the "Read and write everything in shared storage" permission. I have not found any text editors that do this yet. Then the user could decide which folder the app can access. If it would always "export" instead of saving it to private storage, that would be perfect.Īnother perfect way to handle reading and writing would be to use Scoped Storage. Unfortunately it has a cumbersome workflow of keeping the text files in private storage until you "export" them.
Notepad by Braden Farmer does it this way. Probably because Android allows every app the right to read/write files when initiated via a user file picker dialog. It looks like to just open+edit+save a text file, an app needs no permissions at all. Read/write everything, full network access, prevent the phone from sleeping and other things that have nothing to do with just editing a text. An app that let's me open, edit and save text files.Ĭlicking through a bunch of them, I was horrified by what kind of permissions they want on the phone. I was looking for a simple text editor for Android 11 today.
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