NotesTube: YouTube notes maker
A Youtube Notes maker android application. User can write short notes and save it on the device will watching youtube tutorials which they search on this application.
Created on 31st January 2021
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NotesTube: YouTube notes maker
A Youtube Notes maker android application. User can write short notes and save it on the device will watching youtube tutorials which they search on this application.
The problem NotesTube: YouTube notes maker solves
This application helps students who don't own laptop/pc or who can't even afford one and also students who are left behind at home without their laptop in these Covid times. Using this app, one can watch YouTube tutorials on their android device and make notes while watching it on the device itself as notes made on pen-paper get lost easily. It helps students in increasing their learning efficiency as when they come back to watch the tutorial to revise the topic they can find their notes below and also they can directly open up the notes and go through it without having to watch the video again. This will help them learn better.
Challenges we ran into
One of the many challenges that we ran into was making personalized documents(a document contained various user related information like watch history and all) on firebase firestore for an individual user, we handled it by storing the information with an extra variable, user id, and storing it with the rest of document, now when we retrieved the documents from firestore we checked whether the document belongs to the current logged in user from this new variable added with it.
Another challenge was making the transitions between the activity smooth, we solved the problem by little surfing on google, we changed the layout at some places a bit as using constraintLayout everywhere slows the loading of the activity and voila the transitions were smooth.
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