Hi there, I am wondering if there are any good options to implement a rich text editor in Android. Please note I am talking about a rich text editor that can be used in an Android application, not the one embedded in a web page using HTML and Javascript.
My requirements are: * Basic formatting (color, fonts, highlight, bold, italic, underline, etc.) * Hyperlinks * Inline images * Bullet lists and numbered lists * Inline table (only the contents inside a cell is editable, not the table structure) As you can see, this is pretty much something quite similar to a typical RichEdit control on Windows. Here are some efforts (investigation & prototyping) I have made so far: [ Using WebView ] I have tried using a WebView control to load an HTML fragment with one . The content becomes editable and as it is HTML, I suppose it can meet most of my requirements. But it has several issues: * (deadly) No text caret. The user will have no idea where his/her typed characters will be inserted. * The on-screen soft keyboard is not visible by default. There is a trick that the user has to long-press the Menu button to bring up the keyboard. But I think this is a very bad user experience. Besides, the screen layout is not properly rearranged and the text inserting point sometimes will be covered by the keyboard. [ Using EditText ] I have tried using the EditText control. It seems to support some level of rich text editing (color, fonts, bold, italic, underline, inline images, bullet lists). But I still cannot figure out how I can implement the following requirements: * Control the appereance of the bullet symbol (dot, circle, dash, arrow, star, etc.) * Numbered list (1., 2., 3., etc.) * Table BTW, I have seen there are several *Span classes out there but I am not sure if they can be any help... And the http://developer.android.com does not provide much useful information about them. So, how on earth can I implement a rich text editor on Android? Can I extends the EditText and add my new functionalities? Or should I do something from scratch - extends the View and implement everything by myself? For later option (extending View), I actually even don't know how to show a text caret and blink it, not mentionging moving the caret with user typing. I believe there must be some ways of doing this because I did see apps with rich text editting including all features I need (especially tables and numbered lists). I am desperate now... Any hints? Thanks! -Tony -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
