Open Source Text Editors for Android

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  1. GNU Emacs icon
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    GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:

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    • Mac
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    • Android
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Debian
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
    The GNU Emacs Manual calls Emacs the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor
    Beyond just being able to edit plain text files, Emacs includes special features to help you write in many different human languages and programming/markup languages
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  2. acreom icon
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    acreom is an actionable personal knowledge base for developers. It helps developers ship faster by centralizing personal and team context in one place.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  3. Xed Editor icon
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    Xed Editor is a versatile text and code editor designed specifically for Android devices, offering users the ability to create, edit, and manage their text and code files with ease on their mobile devices.

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  4. Orgro icon
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    An org-mode file viewer for iOS and Android. Imagine a plain-text markup language like Markdown, but married to an application that is a literate programming environment and life organizer.

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  5. TeXeTeScribe icon
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    Make Android notes in TXT files and save them anywhere, including external microSD card. Transfer Android notes in a standard TXT format supported by Windows, MacOS, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, iOS.

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  6. Encrypted Notepad is a very simple to use application providing state of the art industrial-strength encryption to users who want nothing more than to store sensitive information in text documents. Users can be completely at ease in the security provided by Encrypted Notes...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
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