Notes

Android app for keeping track of ideas, on the go.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Features
• Showcase
  • Add a new Note
  • Open and view a Note
  • Edit an existing Note
• Libraries Used
• License

Introduction

Quickly capture your ideas no matter when or where inspiration strikes. Written in Kotlin, Notes allows for a stable and efficient user experience by adhering to Google's latest standard for Android Architecure.

Features

Things you can do with Notes:

• View a list of saved notes
• Press the "+" button to add a new note
• Edit an existing note by tapping on it
• Notes are timestamped based on the last save
• Long press to enter multi-selection mode
• Quickly clear all notes from the main screen
• Multilingual support for English, French, Chinese, and many more

Showcase

Add a new Note

Open and view a Note

Edit an existing Note

Multilingual support

Other features

Mutlti-select to Delete	Extensive support for a variety of languages and locales

Libraries Used

• Android Jetpack - Collection of libraries that reduce boilerplate code and simplifies complex tasks.
  • Foundation - Components for backwards compatibility, testing and Kotlin language support.
    • AppCompat - AppCompatActivity offers support for ActionBar.
    • Android KTX - Can write more concise, idiomatic Kotlin code.
    • Test - An Android testing framework for unit and runtime UI tests.
  • Android Architecture - Keeps app more robust, maintainable, and testable.
    • Data Binding - Declaratively bind observable data sources to UI components.
    • Lifecycles - Components respond automatically to lifecycle events.
    • LiveData - Data objects that notify views when the underlying database changes.
    • Navigation - Keeps navigation between fragments simple.
    • Room - Provides layer of abstraction over SQLite for more robust database access.
    • ViewModel - Store UI-related data between state changes and handles fragment to fragment communication. Easily schedule asynchronous tasks.
  • UI - Widgets and helpers to make app presentable and clean.
    • Animations & Transitions - Transition between fragments and events.
    • Fragment - A basic, reusable piece of composable UI.
    • Layout - Organize widgets in a variety of ways.
• Kotlin
  • Kotlin Coroutines for managing background threads with simplified code and reducing needs for callbacks

License

Notes is under the MIT license. See the LICENSE for more information.