920 Text Editor is an app by Elvis Yi in the Tools category, listed since at least February 2013. It includes native code only for ARM (legacy), so it won't run on 64-bit-only phones such as recent Pixels.
It asks for 4 permissions, 1 of them sensitive: modify shared storage.
Description
From the listing uploaded by “eroe”.
920 Text Editor is a run on the Android phone a powerful text editor, anywhere, you can easily view or edit your code, you can also use it as e-book reader to open txt novel, it is like on Windows EmEditor, EditPlus so powerful.
More change log please go to www.jecelyin.com
Features:
1. Multi Tab, you can open different files in different tabs to facilitate you in a different text of this switch to edit
2. syntax highlighting:
ASP, ActionScript, C/C++, C#, Erlang, Frink, HTML/XML/WML, CSS, Javascript, Java, JSP, Perl, PHP, Python, Shell/Bash, Lua, SQL, VB/VBS, Tcl, TeX/LaTeX, Verilog, AutoHotKey, AutoLisp, PowerShell, Pascal,Fortran, ColdFusion, VHDL
3. show line numbers
4. show blank characters (tabs, line breaks)
5. automatically detects the open file encoding, and you can also convert the current file encoding support:
ISO-2022-CN, BIG5, EUC-TW, GBK, GB2312, ISO-8859-5, KOI8-R, WINDOWS-1251, MACCYRILLIC, IBM866, IBM855
, ISO-8859-7, WINDOWS-1253, ISO-8859-8, WINDOWS-1255, ISO-2022-JP, SHIFT_JIS, EUC-JP, ISO-2022-KR
, EUC-KR, UTF-8, UTF-16BE / UTF-16LE, UTF-32BE / UTF-32LE / X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-34121 / X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-21431
, WINDOWS-1252
6. easy toolbar, you can quickly make a new file, open, save, save as, undo/redo, and some commonly used symbols, back to last edit location, etc.
7. list of recently opened files history
8. regular search, replace or replace all
9. change the font and font size
10. "Word wrap" switch
11. lock the screen orientation in: auto, horizontal or vertical
12. remember the last open file
13. hide the soft keyboard, long press the edit area can be turn on
14. long press the "edit area" you can convert selected text to uppercase or lowercase
15. auto indent
16. keep the screen in the awake state
17. you can run at ROOT permissions
18. easy's file manager, you can delete or rename the file, or open with other application to view, copy/move etc. to manage files
19. use the volume keys to quickly switch the display/hide the toolbar, full-screen mode
20. preview the HTML file
21. power Color Picker
22. use Grep recursive search keyword in the path
23. you can use the "Preferences" menu "Donate" page to the donate it
Tags: text editor, ASP Editor for Android, ActionScript Editor for Android, C/C++ Editor for Android, C# Editor for Android, Erlang Editor for Android, Frink Editor for Android, HTML Editor for Android, XML/WML Editor for Android, CSS Editor for Android, Javascript Editor for Android, Java Editor for Android, JSP Editor for Android, Perl Editor for Android , PHP Editor for Android, Python Editor for Android, Shell/Bash Editor for Android, Lua Editor for Android, SQL Editor for Android, VB/VBS Editor for Android, Tcl Editor for Android, TeX/LaTeX Editor for Android, Verilog Editor for Android
Security & authenticity
Security rating: Warning
Signing certificate
Certificate issued to “fdroid.org”Not the developer's name (“Elvis Yi”). Names in certificates can't be verified, so this alone proves nothing.
Store checks and file details
Developer signature check failedMar 8, 2025
Antivirus scan passedSep 22, 2020
Signed byCN=FDroid, OU=FDroid, O=fdroid.org, L=ORG, ST=ORG, C=UK
Uploaded by “eroe”Silver tier · 53,732 followers · uploading since 2012
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Permissions (4)
920 Text Editor requests 4 permissions, 1 of them sensitive.
Can I install this APK over the version I already have?
Only if it is signed with the same certificate as the copy on your phone and isn't an older version. If Android says “App not installed”, the certificates differ; uninstalling your copy first works but deletes its data unless it is backed up.
Is the 920 Text Editor APK safe?
No one can promise that a file is safe, but some things can be checked. The source store flagged this file with a security warning. After downloading, check that the file's MD5 is 0a6e177158798254e175dfe650ef0280.