VimTouch

About

VimTouch is a open source VIM port on Android. It supports full vim syntax and finger touch gestures to help VIM much more usable with touch screens.

Features

Touch to move cursor
Fling to scroll
Swipe to zoom
Quick buttons
Unicode and multi-byte
Read email attachments
Single instance to open multiple files in vim windows
Real VIM runtime
Customizable VIM runtime (ex: can install syntax, doc, plugins)
Sliding File chooser
Backup/Restore your VIM runtime
Command History GUI by long press quick buttons

Screenshot

Issues

https://github.com/momodalo/vimtouch/issues

Developer

How to compile the source code?

Before starting, you need the following prerequisites:

Android SDK: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Android NDK: http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html
Git: http://git-scm.com/

(Use sudo apt-get install git-core on a proper OS)

Get the source code:

git clone git://github.com/nwf/vimtouch.git && cd vimtouch

Now prepare the development environment:

ANDROID_SDK_HOME=~/path/to/android/sdk
ANDROID_NDK_ROOT=~/path/to/android/ndk
./prepare-clean-checkout.sh

You're ready to compile it!

${ANDROID_SDK_HOME}/tools/templates/gradle/wrapper/gradlew assembleDebug ${ANDROID_NDK_ROOT}/ndk-build; for i in libs/*; do cp $i/vim $i/libvim.so; done ${ANDROID_SDK_HOME}/tools/templates/gradle/wrapper/gradlew assembleDebug

Yes, we need to run the build loop twice at the moment. It is less than ideal, but it does produce an executable that can hobble along at least.