FAQ

What’s the difference between the paid and free versions?

The free version is ad supported and lacks SFTP/FTP/Dropbox support. The two versions are exactly the same in every other aspect.

I’m trying to edit a file but some characters appear garbled. What can I do?

Try selecting a different character encoding when opening the file. To do this, long press the open document icon and a list with possible character encodings will appear after you select the document to be opened.

What languages and file extensions are supported?

• Assembly X86 – *.asm
• C – *.cc, *.c and *.h
• C++ – *.cpp and *.hpp
• HTML – *.html and *.tpl (smarty)
• CSS – *.css
• Java – *java
• Python – *.py
• Ruby – *.rb
• Perl – *.pl, *.pm
• C# – *.cs
• Lua – *.lua
• SQL – *.sql
• Javascript – *.js
• JavaServer Pages – *.jsp
• Groovy – *.groovy
• PHP – *.php
• XML – *.xml
• Pascal/Delphi – *.pas
• LaTeX – *.tex
• Lisp – *.lisp and *.lsp

I’m using one of those languages but with a different file extension. Can I force DroidEdit to use a syntax highlighting scheme?

You can long press on the editor to select a different syntax highlighter. You can also assign a syntax highlighter to a file extension permanently.

My favorite language is not included. Can you add it?

E-mail us and will try to add. No promises…