NTW Text Editor Lite

NTW Text Editor Lite Free App

Rated 3.90/5 (156) —  Free Android application by crandf

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About NTW Text Editor Lite

Comes with both English interface and 简体中文界面 options, NTW edits text files of UNLIMITED size! Search (with wildcards!), replace, undo, redo, HTML mode, Text to speech, full customizability, and more!

NTW bookmarks your editing progress for every file. With NTW Shelf, every file is at your fingertips.

Paid version mainly adds lotsa poweruser options, not essential, but looks very useful, right ;D
1) Remembers up to 9999 undo/redo operations
2) Control over the End-Of-Line characters (Apple, Unix and Windows tend to handle different End-Of-Line differently when doing plain text editing)
3) Allows user to specify buffer size
4) Allows custom fonts and background images
5) Allows user to customize 6 extra Themes in addition to the built-in 3 Themes.
6) Allows toggling of word wrap
7) Continuous Text to Speech in paid version. Free version will play single paragraphs, then stop until play button is pressed again.

Features:
- Edits text files of any size by loading small segments of the file at a time. To navigate between file segments, either use the goTo command, or tap the arrow icons on the top left and right corners.
- Text to speech synthesizer!
- Page scroll or move cursor using volume buttons
- Supports HTML view! And allows text justification along both left and right
- Shelf system that works like a sortable Task list.
- Save/autosave and auto bookmark/backup features works in the background so your changes are never lost, but neither are you forced to irrevocably save changes you still feel ambiguous about.
- Undo/Redo, Search(with full *wildcards* functionality! :D) and Replace, GoTo.
- Themes! Customizable display, fonts, and colors for both paid and free versions. And for the paid version, you can even specify your own background images and custom fonts.
- Supports multiple encodings including, ISO8859-_, windows 125_, Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
- Work with text files for easy transfer between your phone and PC.
- End of Line control when saving
- Toggleable word wrap
- Counts words and characters

If you are upgrading, you should save the files you are editing with NTW first.

Startup Crashes
If NTW crashes after you update your firmware to ICS, this is due to directory restructuring by ICS, thus clashing with NTW's own log data. Simply delete the /.NeedToWrite folder to fix this.
If you encounter any other startup crashes, either switch to a smaller(<1MB) image file for your background image, or install TTS for your phone. Its free on the Android market.

Text to speech for SVOX classic will only work if you enable both the SVOX Classic engine under your phone's TTS settings, as well as enable Language Override inside SVOX Classic TTS settings.
TTS with SVOX is buggy for IceCream Sandwich, users are advised to use Google's own built in TTS engine.

For more information, pls refer to Help in the menu.

Important! 2013-02-20
I just encountered this sudden bug on my SGS3. Cut and Copy buttons will crash my phone everytime in any version of NTW Lite or Pro.

So after some digging, I found that there is a bug in how certain phone models especially Samsung's implements the clipboard.

The temporary solution is either a factory reset, or to do this:
1. boot into recovery > advanced > wipe cache
2. reboot phone > ES Explorer (enable root mode)> delete /data/clipbord/*
3. reboot recovery again > advanced > fix permissions
4. reboot phone > it's fine again, but until Samsung fixes their firmware, the same problem will eventually recur for apps that implement their own cut/copy/paste buttons.

References
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s3/565061-galaxy-s3-crashing-when-copying-text-clipboard.html#post4724673
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35732
http://veetipaananen.fi/dear-samsung-please-fix-your-clipboard/

Don't hesitate to email me if you still have problems.

How to Download / Install

Download and install NTW Text Editor Lite version 1.91 on your Android device!
Downloaded 10,000+ times, content rating: Everyone
Android package: robbin.android.NeedToWrite_Trial, download NTW Text Editor Lite.apk

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App History & Updates

What's Changed
v1.91
- Introduced dedicated menu buttons in the toolbar and file browser. Long pressing "New" or "Browse" will also trigger a menu popup.
- Minor bug fixes
Version update NTW Text Editor Lite was updated to version 1.91
Version update NTW Text Editor Lite was updated to version 1.89b
Version update NTW Text Editor Lite was updated to version 1.88
More downloads  NTW Text Editor Lite reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads

What are users saying about NTW Text Editor Lite

D70%
by D####:

Hell is this.waste of data.

P70%
by P####:

This app helps me viewing text files that my phone does not support.

M70%
by M####:

Opens 450kb text file and is usable. And I can set the text colour and background to any colour. But chunks.

L70%
by L####:

This app helps me viewing text files that my phone does not support.

Q70%
by Q####:

LifeTab.1. // NS8.

Q70%
by Q####:

Nice App!

Q70%
by Q####:

Hell is this.waste of data.

Y70%
by Y####:

I love you

M70%
by M####:

good

J70%
by J####:

Childish inconvenient sparse UI

T70%
by T####:

best appp for text editing

Y70%
by Y####:

Does not load whole file.

U70%
by U####:

Is buried deep. Load next file chunk to find is NOT how to do big files

U70%
by U####:

on LifeTab.1.

Y70%
by Y####:

Can even open 5 mb text files :-)

Y70%
by Y####:

on LifeTab.1.

Y70%
by Y####:

جيد جدا لكتابة الملاحظات والنصوص وفتح وتعديل الملفات النصية باللغة العربية..

A70%
by A####:

Super aps to all only need copy option here is not copy cut option

U70%
by U####:

I want to be able to download files from my Website, edit them on my phone and upload them. However, when I use NTW Lite, modify the file in HTML mode and upload it, the text of the file disappears. Have I mis-set something? This text editor looks like an excellent solution (trying to edit using Emacs from the Android didn't work at all), so I hope it can work! I would be happy to upgrade, but I want to see that it works before I do.

V70%
by V####:

Work 100% mod pou coin thanks

Y70%
by Y####:

Great interface and customizability

S70%
by S####:

Super aps to all only need to slide show view

F70%
by F####:

Opens 450kb text file and is usable. And I can set the text colour and background to any colour. But chunks.

U70%
by U####:

It's really obvious that this app is developed by a single person who uses it regularly day in day out. Everything is so convenient and intuitive! All thumbs up!

S70%
by S####:

Two fingers touch to select,cut/copy,paste operations are not happening,like in the previous version.need a fixation quickly.

Q70%
by Q####:

Easy to use Thx :)

S70%
by S####:

Excellent apps for navigation and text editing!

S70%
by S####:

Really doesn't have any size limit I opened a xml file that has more than 1mb size with this great editor and it works perfectly

S70%
by S####:

Have been using it as diary of 16kB pure text file now. Editor stopped displaying at specific line. Emailed developer and no response! Other editor handles editing easily without any problem. Paid version doing the same. Update: Gmail never sent my message. Broken line at the end fixed by moving to Next (shows when you scroll the toolbar) and back to Prev.

R70%
by R####:

Perfect app for modifying scripts

U70%
by U####:

The app itself is quite nice, but without any kind of possible customization possible, it's poor design. No way to change the text font size, colors

S70%
by S####:

Handles files of theoretically unlimited size so can use it as perpetual diary with all the search functions to show previous records

H70%
by H####:

Great text editor, cool developer. Liked the app so much, I upgraded for continuous tts playback. Highly recommend either version. 5 stars!

A70%
by A####:

Not sure what the other commenter was talking about. Mine still works fine after the update. Maybe he accidentally changed to View-only mode or HTML view without realizing it?

M70%
by M####:

Easily beats other text editors. Configure to suit your own work habits. Powerful, yet reliable and easy to use. Developer very helpful. SGS-I896.

S70%
by S####:

Support this dev! The free version is totally usable, but the theme customization etc from the full version is worth it. Not to mention supporting the only fullscreen, distraction-free editor on the market! (I've tried -every- editor. This is definitely the best.

P70%
by P####:

Simple to use and yet uberpowerful!

S70%
by S####:

FCed the first time I ran it to test. Backgrounds are too distracting. Make a regular, plain BG available for the free version. Would like to try again in the future.

S70%
by S####:

not with the app. I'm disappointed that there are so few people supporting the developer of this excellent app by getting the pro version. Shame on you Joel. Down rating just because you won't get the pro version? tsk tsk!

S70%
by S####:

Fiddly, doesn't let you cut and paste easily.


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