That's exactly how I'm implementing it (Spannable strings in the native
EditText view).  It's pretty simple and fast to do it this way; and I would
think that any amount of syntax highlighting is better than none?  This
might serve well until we get around to a more complete VE for mobile.


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah, Ace has some bad touch support too, and it's got serious problems
> with RTL and variable-width characters. If we do syntax highlighting,
> staying in the native editor widget is probably best for performance and
> consistency of behavior on both Android and iOS. (Text edit widgets support
> annotated text with some styling, which should be enough for our needs.)
>
> -- brion
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Yuvi Panda <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > I wonder if the code editor extension can be adapted to work for wiki
>> > markup.
>>
>> Possibly, although ACE (the one we use on desktop) has somewhat
>> terrible perf on Mobile the last time I checked (a few months ago).
>> Lots of cursor placement issues as well.
>>
>> If we do it on Android, it'll most likely just use Android Spannables
>> in a regular EditText - should be much faster and bug free, I think.
>>
>> --
>> Yuvi Panda T
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