Allow choice of default text editor

[Crut2]

Until recent update(s), when I clicked on a text file in Dropbox on my Android cell phone, it would own in my default text editor. Now it opens in Dropbox's editor. Now, everytime, I have to remember to take extra steps and tell it to "open with". This needlessly slows me down and is annoying. Please provide a way to choose my default.

[Walter]

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[Jay]

Hi @Crut2, thanks for messaging the Community.

Have you tried resetting the default apps for the Dropbox app in the Android settings to see if this helps?

Keep me updated with any progress!

[Crut2]

Yes, let me explain. This applies to the mobile Dropbox app on my Android cell phone:

Before recent updates, I could click on the name of the text file and it would open in my default editor.

Now, when I click on the name of the text file, it opens in Dropbox's editor. In order to make it open in my preferred editor, I have to click on the three dots, right of the text file name, then click "open with" and select my editor. I tell it to make my editor default; the result is, in the future, I don't need to select my editor. However, I always need to click on the three dots, then click "open with". If I click on the file name it still opens in Dropbox's editor.

So, I always have to remember to not click on the file name, but to click the three dots, then click "open with". This wastes my time and is annoying. I would like it to work the old way, where I simply click on the file name and it opens in my default editor.

[Walter]

Thanks for the additional information there @Crut2 - much appreciated!

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[mwallred]

Not only that, but when I do an Open With on my android, it gives me a very limited set of choices. I tried installing a variety of text editors (since the new version of the Dropbox one is so horrible) and it would not let me choose any of them to be my default editor.

[Walter]

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