alt Hacker NewsIf you try opening a .md file on Android it says "no viewer available", and offers you to pick from a list of Google Drive, Dropbox, ... It doesn't offer to open it in a text viewer. In fact, I'm not even sure Android has a native .txt viewer.
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1dom • today at 8:56 AM
Markdown is a plaintext format, that's what makes it great and got it adoption, it works without formatting! Rendering markdown is a nice to have, a luxury that gets very complex very quickly when done properly. If you want it, install a an application that does markdown rendering, I use Obsidian.
The fact that a file can't be opened as plaintext in a plaintext editor is not a problem with Markdown, it's an OS problem that effects any file you'd want to open as plaintext.
If you have a text editor installed, it'll ask you to open it in a text editor.
Android doesn't come with a text editor by default but there are loads of options out there. Same goes for any docx or even PDF if you don't have Google Drive installed.