Android rtf editor

[Trevor Prinn (ywSynch author)]

Every so often I look through the Word Processors on Android to see if there is one that can edit rtf files. I've finally found one. I've just been trying it out for a few hours, but it seems to be working fine. It's Office Suite Pro. That's a link to the time limited trial version, but the full version is only £10.

I set up ywSynch to work with it by deleting the copy in my Dropbox (using Project/Delete Remote...), changing the Remote Format in Project/Options... to rtf, and synching. It all runs a lot faster without having to go through LibreOffice to convert the document formats.

Trevor Prinn
ywSynch Author

[Nickyp]

Hi Trevor,
Thanks for providing such a useful programme like ywsynch. For various reasons I haven't used yWriter nor ywsynch for a while but am now looking to start again!
If I use OfficeSuite Pro on my Android phone I guess I am OK to directly edit my yWriter rtf files directly (they are on my Dropbox)?
Do you know if this has any effect on yWriter? Word count and such?
Thanks.

[Trevor Prinn]

You could certainly edit them directly. However, Simon always recommends
not keeping your yWriter project in Dropbox, because it's known to
produce locking problems with yWriter.
https://sites.google.com/site/ywritersj/faq/ywriter-and-dropbox

Another thing is that you will have difficulty identifying which rtf
file is which on the phone, because they are just given arbitrary
numbers in the order each scene is originally created. You would have to
look inside the yw5 file and read the xml yourself to link them to your
chapters and scenes. Even worse, you would have to write your own
android app to open the yw5 file on the phone at all (as far as I know,
there's no text reader that can attempt to open files with unknown
extensions).

ywSynch gets around both of these problems by letting you keep your
yWriter project out of Dropbox, but get a set of sensibly organised and
named files in the Dropbox. You can tell it to synch them as rtf, in
which case it just copies them between the yWriter project and Dropbox,
and back again (without needing LibreOffice).

Either way, yWriter won't automatically pick up changes made externally,
but when I ran into this problem a while back Simon added a feature to
update the word counts after doing external edits (Tools/Force wordcount).

Trevor Prinn
ywSynch Author