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> Looking at the formatting capabilities in Word for Android, it's so much more powerful. Amazing to see how far mobile app capabilities have come since then.
by lewisjoe 7y ago
> Looking at the formatting capabilities in Word for Android, it's so much more powerful. Amazing to see how far mobile app capabilities have come since then.
I'm in the business of making a powerful Google Docs alternative, Zoho Writer (https://writer.zoho.com https://writer.zoho.com). Our mobile versions were (are still) using native TextBox APIs to build the mobile word processor.
But interestingly, even with all the recent improvements, the native APIs to model complex formattings like background-color, tables and selections across multiple text-views are pretty tricky.
On the plus side, mobile OS's these days allow us to draw directly over a canvas which means we can get to those complex features by rewriting the app to render directly over a canvas. So yeah, we have come a long way indeed.
Also hey, you've helped me out with understanding some Redux stuff from time to time. Is there anything you haven't done? ;)
Thank you for all the effort you put in for the open source community.
- acemarke 7y agoHah, there's _so_ much I've never touched at all. And really, these last few years that I've been focusing on Redux, I haven't had time to go off and play around with other things. > Thank you for all the effort you put in for the open source community. You're welcome! Glad to know I've been able to help out.