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Ooh, this looks very promising. Nice work.

I'm using draft.js in production (at http://www.guilded.gg). I just started looking for a replacement for a few reasons:

1. Draft is pretty broken on Android, despite being marketed as a cross-platform project. The team says that they're not working on fixing it, and it's not trivial to fix. This is a dealbreaker on its own.

2. I've had users encounter bugs where the Draft editor will serialize state that it can't read - so you can save something, and then cannot reload it. It appears to happen when doing some weird combination of adding and deleting block elements. This is a dangerous and frustrating bug.

3. In my opinion, the DraftJS API is difficult to use and extend.

Do you (@author) plan to support Android and iOS? If so, I'll definitely give this a shot.

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Have a look at ProseMirror (http://prosemirror.net). It works quite well on Android and iOS and the maintainer is super responsive and has already fixed a lot of Android/iOS specific issues.

Edit: The landing page of the project does not seem to be optimized well for mobile. When on mobile, make sure to try the editor on http://prosemirror.net/examples/basic instead, as the landing page causes some unwanted scrolling for me on mobile.

In what way is Draft broken on Android?

Edit: I see now. I've had a look around and this open pr seems to fix it for draftjs:

https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/pull/1013

How are you currently handling Android? We're launching with draftjs in two weeks and need to support Android.

On Android there is a high chance your text won't appear, or the keyboard will disappear. Trying to delete text will cause the cursor to jump around if you hold delete down instead of one character at a time. Very frustrating.

The cursor and atomic block deletion issues occur on desktop as well. I filed an issue recently on this very thing.

It seems to be a continuation of the issues with the editor state and DOM falling out of sync.

I can't share the implementation project, but this is the issue: https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/issues/1089 And the component: https://robert-fairley.github.io/draftjs-litho-editor/

(my component was never meant for mobile use, though. Built for a desktop web app.)

Just tested...doesn't work on my Android Chrome browser right now but hopefully it gets there.

Yeah, I just did some testing on an Android device as well and had the same result. I like Slate's API and data model more than Draft's, so I'd almost certainly switch if this were fixed.

Hey, author here, good question!

I'd guess that there are definitely some x-browser issues with Android right now because I haven't tested there at all. So far I've been working on the core pieces of the library, and making sure desktop works. A few folks have contributed iOS fixes for things like autocorrect. I'd love for any contributions that make things work better on Android! (Or other platforms.)

Thanks!

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