captainbeyondds8/text-editor-8000

Text editor for Android.

Text Editor 8000

Text editor for Android. Forked from Turbo Editor by Vlad Mihalachi.

Currently this fork includes a fix for hardware keyboards, as well as an updated CommonMark Markdown renderer.

Notice

This project is concluded. See Viper Edit for an up-to-date Turbo Editor fork.

License

GNU General Public License version 3, see LICENSE.

text-editor-8000's Issues

Replace rootfw with something better

Currently TE8k ships with a stale version of rootfw which was patched to work around some bug, I think.

The library isn't particularly dead (it got some updates since I forked from Turbo Editor) but it may be worthwhile to switch to libsu instead, which is by the developer of Magisk and is used in Magisk Manager. This library comes with its own bundled busybox which can work around issues where the system busybox is broken or missing.

Default to SAF if available

I think if SAF is available then it should be the default. I think this is also about when SD cards become read only (without SAF) by default, so the built-in file selector is useless unless the system is patched to allow RW access to the card.

I'm almost inclined to just throw away the built-in selector, force SAF, and raise the target SDK version.

Investigate Viper Edit

Viper Edit is a more up-to-date Turbo Editor fork released this year: https://github.com/maks/viper-edit.

Text Editor 8000 was forked in 2016, sporadically worked on in 2018, and then abandoned. I think it would be nice to have a modern Turbo Editor fork in F-Droid, but the Viper Edit developer has decided not to pursue this: maks/viper-edit#7

Since I'm planning on getting back into Android development, I'm considering resurrecting this project. Viper Edit may have some neat things that TE8K can borrow from; or, we could contribute code to them. As far as I am aware, Viper Edit contains everything contributed to Turbo Editor up to now, but TE8K may include some things (like the hardware keyboard fix) that I don't know if Viper Edit has yet.

Update Markdown library

Issues with current Markdown implementation: https://github.com/vmihalachi/turbo-editor/issues/140
Current implementation is also not suitable for F-Droid since it is binary only. https://github.com/vmihalachi/turbo-editor/issues/147#issuecomment-361626598

It was suggested to use https://github.com/atlassian/commonmark-java as a starting point so I'll look into that.

Name

When I forked the application, I renamed it "Robut Editor" (anagram of Turbo) so as to differentiate it from the upstream project, which is (as far as I can tell) a dead project.

Then, in search of a better name, I came up with "Text Editor 8000." I'm not sure if it's a particularly good name.

Fix or remove "View it on the web" feature

"View it on the web" feature prompts the user to open the file in an application. It does this by creating an intent and supplying it with data of type */*.

                browserIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
                browserIntent.setDataAndType(greatUri.getUri(), "*/*");
                startActivity(browserIntent);

A number of applications offer to handle this intent, but for some reason, actual browsers are not among them (tested on LineageOS, neither the default browser nor Fennec nor DuckDuckGo browser are available). I'm not even sure it's possible (anymore?) to have a web browser handle an arbitrary content:// URI.

If it's possible it should be fixed such that it tries to open a browser, and if not it should just be removed.

cc https://github.com/vmihalachi/turbo-editor/issues/148

Provide nightly builds

We should set up a CI service that provides nightly builds.

I'm hesitant to officially release anything until I'm satisfied with it (which could be never), but I feel some people might want a "fixed Turbo Editor" they can install before then.

(Alas, I'm probably 2 years too late on that, oh well)

Don't immediately prompt to save when creating empty editor

Currently TE8k prompts the user to either open a file or create a new one. Text editors usually just create a blank editor and allow the user to save when they feel like.

This has been one of my nits with Turbo Editor and I would like to eventually address it in TE8k.

cc https://github.com/vmihalachi/turbo-editor/issues/151

Re-organize package structure

Currently everything is still packaged under the old Turbo Editor package structure, which is probably fine (the application id is still net.monarchpass... etc) but for correctness's sake should probably be changed to match the application id at some point.

Replace icon

At some point the icon needs to be replaced. That's not particularly something I'm good at.

That can probably wait until #4