Simple Text Editor

maxistar

About this app

This is simple text editor that can help you with editing text files.

This editor mostly used by me for small text notes, write down ideas while I have a break.

Supports only plain text files at the moment.

The code is open so can review code, send pull requests, new features, translations and so on. https://github.com/maxistar/TextPad.

Any suggestions for this project are welcomed. Thank you!

Ratings and reviews

I like the idea but there are a few bugs in this app that almost a dealbreaker (depends on how patient you are): 1) entering text into a file and then switching apps without saving and switching back causes all of your changes to be lost, and 2) even more annoying, for some reason, when using a keyboard the focus will randomly drop to the bottom of the document (the cursor stays where it is) and you have fight to get back to where you were.

I agree a simple .txt file editor is sorely needed, but this isn't it. I opened a .txt file that I created in Windows to edit. The issue described in earlier reviews about randomly moving the focus to the bottom of the text really makes the app unusable, especially since it happened on every line multiple times. Also, to get around the limitations of the on-screen keyboard, I tried to use a bluetooth keyboard. The app did not recognize the tab character at all.

Great app - does such a basic fundamental function that for some reason is otherwise lacking in Android. Although it works flawlessly from the app (open, edit, save, save as, etc) it does not from a file manager - it shows a notification that the file is "Read Only" and gives the option to "Open Again", which gives you a list of files, from which you can again choose the file. This puts you into the editable file. Considering this is a SIMPLE Text Editor, it is a reasonable limitation.

What’s new

- added a new size (thanks Christian for feature request and for donation)
- website is changed to https://simpleditor.org