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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.

piokuc
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    You should make clear that you're talking about running the editor on the Android device and not for developing Android programs using a PC to host the dev environment (that's what it sounds like you're looking for to me, anyway). – Michael Burr Mar 16 '12 at 00:03
  • OK... I thought it was clear, thanks for pointing it out, I'll try to improve it... – piokuc Mar 16 '12 at 00:04
  • Check out "920 Text Editor". Its free, does a lot of syntax highlighting for many languages. Supports tabbed views so you can have multiple files open, etc. It is one that I use a lot. – Troy Morehouse Feb 27 '14 at 02:06
  • You can use this library https://stackoverflow.com/a/52641368/1770868 – Ahmad Aghazadeh Oct 29 '18 at 11:03

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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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(1) AIDE - You can code and compile Android App on Android device. With syntax highlighting and some intellisense.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui

(2) AnJedi - General purpose java editor. with subversion (SVN) integrated.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anjedi

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There are many text editors but you said you want it for code. Not sure writing or viewing. Here it is:

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