Enabling ckEditor on Android Phone

Recently i got into a situation that i have to enable the ckeditor on android phone browser. (At that time i was not aware that ckEditor is not working on Android Phone browser)

After doing a log of research, i failed to find a proper solution, only got a hint to change the value of a variable in case of chrome browser, but no hint/details where to make these changes.

After spending couple of hours, finally i succeded in sorting out this issue, now sharing with you guys so no other one waste his/her time :)

Downoad the latest version (default build) of ckeditor
Open ckeditor.js file in notepad (placed at the root of ckeditor folder)
Find the statement: if(e.webkit)a.indexOf("chrome")>-1?e.chrome=true:e.safari=true;
Add the following statement infron of the above statement: if(e.chrome)e.mobile=false;
Save and upload it on your server
:) CKEditor will be working now on your Android Browser

Tested with CKEditor v4.4 on Android 4.4 on Nexus 4

Mon, 05/19/2014 - 12:08

coder

Joined: 17/05/2014

Posts: 4

Ckeditor on Android Browser

I have done with the changes on my ckeditor 4.4(full) as you mentioned above.

But it is not working yet.

Thanks for your replay.

Mon, 05/19/2014 - 23:47

flh

Joined: 20/03/2013

Posts: 94

Tried, but no editor

I can enter text in table cells, but the changes are not saved.

The editor is not popping up.

Samsung Galaxy S5

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 17:00

reinmar

Joined: 24/08/2012

Posts: 631

We made a research recently about CKEditor on iOS and Android. We have been surprised because it turned out that CKEditor works out of the box on Chrome on Android. This is more or less the same browser than on desktop and AFAIK it's preinstalled on some Android devices and is available for most of them.

Of course, the support is not perfect, mostly because of the UX. We are willing to improve this by fixing most important bugs, so we are looking for funding of this task, because it will be very demanding and time consuming.

Some links: