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Obsidian - fantastic Markdown editor with rich base functionality and a huge garden of plugins.
So I just tried this, on Android. Yes it is pretty nice. Wish it would do plain .txt files too. Or even source code and syntaxes highlighting for different file types. Limited to just MD files sucks. Not really interested in the whole "canvas" thing. UI is a bit clunky on Android, but not terrible.
Currently using Acode front F-Droid for Android, which addresses the issues named above. And it's FOSS, which Obsidian is not.
Obsidian isn't meant to be a general purpose text editor, it's a personal wiki; None of the things you mentioned are its goals, though it can highlight source code in code blocks.
It's meant to be a second brain, with interlinking between notes and ideas a la the Zettelkasten method. I use it for keeping everything from DND notes to local documentation on my home lab, to meeting notes... Think Notion or the like, if you're familiar.
Here's a great overview by one of my favorite YouTube channels: https://youtu.be/DbsAQSIKQXk
For general purpose editing, I personally use Neovim in Termux.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/DbsAQSIKQXk
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Thanks. Understood.
While Obsidian does work on mobile, I find it really shines on a bigger screen with keyboard and mouse.
Markdown has code blocks with syntax highlighting.
https://www.markdownguide.org/extended-syntax/#syntax-highlighting
I think syntax highlighting may be a core plugin that comes deactivated. If it's not that then there's definitely a community plugin for it.