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Re:Build Your Own Text Editor by teddyh on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:22PM (#25717689)
There’s The Craft of Text Editing by Craig A. Finseth:

https://www.finseth.com/craft/

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Re:Build Your Own Text Editor by vbsteven on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:11AM (#25726515)
This book got me started on my journey of creating a text editor for Android 10 or so years ago. It mainly focuses on data structures for efficiently storing and editing text. I can't recall any GUI-related topics being in there.

My initial implementation was based on this book and used one rich TextView with Spans to do the rendering. After that turned out way too slow I switched to drawing everything myself using the Android 2D drawing API's. It was a fun side project and I learned a lot from it.

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Re:Build Your Own Text Editor by amelius on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:32PM (#25721601)
That seems to be about a non-graphical (monospace text) editor, though.
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