QuickEdit

★★★★★

Full-featured text editor for Android. Good in a pinch on my phone, better on my tablet with either the onscreen or a Bluetooth keyboard.

Storage

Support for the major cloud storage providers, plus local, WebDAV and SFTP means that I can edit a file direct from my Nextcloud instance, or off of my desktop in the next room, or off of a server. (You need the full URL to add a WebDAV folder, but at least you only need it once per setup. As with other direct logins, Nextcloud access is faster if you use an app-specific password.)

Also connects to GitHub and to GitLab servers. It would be nice if I could connect directly to any Git repository, because then I could connect straight to Codeberg, but to be fair, I wouldn’t have thought of that if it didn’t offer the specific forges.

Local files and cloud credentials are only stored on the device.

Usage

QuickEdit remembers your session, so I always have a couple of files available (including the migraine log I’ve kept since 2008, which can take a while to scroll through on a touch screen, but opens where I left off and doesn’t slow the editor down at all.) right when I need them, and it’ll pull down the latest version when I open it.

Autocomplete and autocapitalization are turned off by default, which makes it easier to use for code, but can be turned back on in the settings. Defaults to light mode, but can be set to dark mode or auto.

There’s a free version with ads that you can try out, but it’s easily worth the ~$4 one-time price for the paid version.