Kickstarter campaign to add Android Support to Slate -Rich text editor framework

[francescol]

Slate (https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate) is an open source framework for building customisable rich text editors. It's a joy to use and the codebase is one of the most approachable I have ever worked with.

A year or so ago there was a big push by Sunny Hirai to add Android support to Slate, however after putting in months of work Slate underwent a huge rewrite that more or less invalidated all the work put towards adding Android support.

As you can imagine adding android support to a framework for building rich text editors is a huge amount of tedious back-breaking work riddled with edge cases. Now that Slate has started to stabilise Sunny is raising funds on KickStarter to add Android support back in.

If you are using Slate or know a company making heavy use of it please consider pledging some money (Link below). There is only 15 days to go and it needs 20K more - that's only three low tier corporate sponsors! I'm not affiliated with Sunny in any way, I just really enjoy using Slate and I think Android support is crucial for the long-term viability of this project.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sunnyhirai/add-android-support-for-the-slate-wysiwyg-editor

[autoconfig]

This is an awesome initiative! I'm using slate to build a web based flash card application that I'm hoping to release soon. It's been an absolute breeze to use as far as editor frameworks goes. I played around with a few others (draft, prosemirror) and while they have great out of the box experiences I found it very hard to incorporate a custom format and custom elements. Right now lack of android support is the only serious downside IMO. I will definitely be donating. Hope this goes well!