Over at the Flutter Bounty Hunters and Superlist, we’ve been busy at work on a toolkit to help Flutter developers build their own, custom document editors. Document editing has long been an underdeveloped area within the Flutter community, yet documents are core to productivity apps, journaling apps, email clients, note taking apps, blogs, and more. Super Editor is here to help!
We’re proud to announce Super Editor v0.2.0, which adds document editing support for Android and iOS, adding to Super Editor’s existing support for Mac and web.
Mobile document editing
The path to mobile support for Super Editor has been a long and winding road. Early in the process, we realized that we needed Flutter to fundamentally change how it handles text editing with the operating system. We had a chat with the Flutter team, and the Flutter team implemented text editing deltas to unblock Super Editor’s mobile document editing, as well as other similarly positioned projects.
When the text editing deltas came online, we then needed to marshal content from our Super…
