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The history of Plain Ol' Notes

The history of Plain Ol' Notes - Android Tutorial

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The history of Plain Ol' Notes

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- [Instructor] Plain OL' Notes is a simple Android app that's designed to let you create simple notes and save them on your Android device. It was originally created in 2013 and was intended to be a sample app that demonstrated the use of data in a simple mobile application. As it's turned out, the history of this app has echoed the best practices for Android development as they've changed over the years. Google has continually upgraded how we build Android applications, and so each time a new version of the app has come out, it might have looked the same to the user, but internally it was built completely differently. The original version of the app was created all the way back in 2013. It was targeted at Android 4.4 KitKat. It didn't actually use a database, it stored its data persistently in shared preferences, and it looked a lot different than more recent versions. And that's because back in 2013, material…

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