There’s very little need for a WYSIWYG HTML editor on Android. Who in their right mind would want to do that on a smartphone? The requirement pops up though when you use Android on a large screen device like this AC100 smartbook i’m using right now. I’m testing a few right editors right now and although there’s nothing that hits me as being 100% perfect, I think there are enough solutions and workarounds out there. What would be perfect is to be able to work through the browser in AJAX applications like Google Docs or the rich editor in the WordPress back-end. With Android 2.1 that’s just not possible.
The AC100 gets an upgrade to 2.2 that fixes that soon (apparently) but in the meantime I’m using three applications.
1 – WordPress. This is a basic editor for offline posting to WordPress. As you can see here, it works!
2 – QuickOffice. I’m testing this as a way to acces my Google docs and Dropbox. It’s basic but if you need to get some text down, it works.
3 – Documents to Go. Similar to QuickOffice. As I get further into testing the differences will appear.
Why am I doing this: The 1K Challenge
