Android: How to implement WYSIWYG Editor for user content?

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I'm building an Android App where users need to be able to edit their own content, including minimal layout. I just want to store the formatted source in the database and pull it out and display it the way I would with something like TinyMCE in a web app.

Any ideas how users can enter and format their own content in an Android GUI?

Thanks!

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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There is no rich editor widget built into Android. Perhaps you can convince the person who asked this question an hour or so ago to make his open source.

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

There is an open source EditText rich text editor called android-richtexteditor but the code was inexplicably deleted in r5. The code is still there in r4 in older revisions; just use svn to check out r4 or earlier to access it. The code appears to support italics, underline, color picker, text size, and more.

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