Text editor SimpleEditorLight

Igor Luchkin

About this app

A simple file editor with a basic set of functions:
- Create, modify and save files to the device’s memory and removable storage (txt, xml, html, css, svg files...)
- Editing files on cloud services (details on the website)
- Using different encodings
- Open multiple files
- Recent files list
- You can undo changes in the editing process
- Search for text in a file and replace
- You can forward the contents of the editor window (E-Mail, SMS, Messengers, etc.)
- In reading mode, open large files (1 gigabyte and more)
- Print file
- Highlight markup language syntax (*.html, *.xml, *.svg, *.fb2 ...)
- Voice typing
- Automatically detect file encoding (see Notes)

NOTES.
1) If you try to open a large file, there will be delays in opening and scrolling.
The optimal file size depends on the type of file (text or binary) and device performance.
2) Binary files can be displayed with loss of information (some bytes of the file cannot be converted to text).
3) Limitations of the free version: 40 encodings are available. During the editing process, you can undo the last 30 changes.

Ratings and reviews

Has everything a simple text editor should have. Very clear settings options.

It's well written, but too limited. You must use the bundled fonts; system fonts aren't available. There's no dark theme, unless you pay. (Android OS lets you choose a system-wide dark theme now, which most apps simply honor.) Undo is limited to the last 10 words—again, unless you pay. Sorry, but there are too many good, free editors to have to pay for such basic features.

I don't like it. Not user friendly, too many actions required to search for text and buggy as it can jump to another location after search.

What’s new

* A new option has been added to the app settings: "Monitor changes in encoding". When enabled, the text is analyzed for encoding mismatches before the file is saved.
This new option helps prevent the file from being saved incorrectly.
It is important to note that, in most cases, the file must contain at least 500 characters for automatic encoding detection to work.

* Bugs in the app have been fixed.