Any good text editor - Android app - optimised for programmers?

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piokuc picture piokuc · Mar 16, 2012 · Viewed 12.9k times · Source

Are there any good Android apps - text editors, optimised for programmers?

I'm asking about an Android app which is an editor! I am not interested in editors running on a desktop/laptop computers for editing Android programs. Features I am looking for:

  • popular programming languages' syntax highlighting (JavaScript, Python, Lua, ...),
  • visual matching of parentheses (for Lisp lovers),
  • auto indentation,
  • touch a word/identifier to start searching for it,
  • reading/writing to SD card, Dropbox, github,
  • code autocompletion,
  • open source.

Any combination of the above would be great, I don't even dream about all of them in one app.

Answer

Andy picture Andy · Jul 15, 2012

I've been looking for exactly this, as I'm a Computer Science student wanting to replace my netbook with the Nexus 7.

I've found DroidEdit: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aor.droidedit.pro

Along with Hacker's Keyboard: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboard

I have yet to use them, but they're both well reviewed and seem to be our best options.

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