CodePad+ User Guide
A practical guide to notes, editor tools, tags, backups, exports, and opening external text files.
Basics
Create a note
Tap the floating + button on the Home screen. The editor opens immediately and CodePad+ saves your work automatically.
Rename a note
Tap the title in the editor toolbar, or open the overflow menu and choose Rename.
Search all notes
Use the Search action on Home to search note titles and content. Tag filtering can be used at the same time.
Editor
The editor supports line numbers, undo/redo, Find & Replace, word wrap, font choices, a coding shortcut bar, and word/character counters.
Find & Replace
Tap Search in the editor toolbar. Navigate through matches, replace the current match, or use Replace All.
Line numbers
Enable line numbers for scripts and disable them for normal notes. Line numbers represent logical text lines.
Open with & Save As
From Android's file manager, use Open with → CodePad+ for supported text and source files. The file is imported into CodePad+ as a new internal note.
The original external file is not edited directly.
Save As
Use Save As to export the current note. Existing extensions such as .json, .xml, .md, or .kt are preserved. If no extension is supplied, CodePad+ uses .txt.
Backup & restore
Open Settings → Data → Backup All to create a CodePad+ JSON backup containing notes and their metadata.
Restore Backup validates the backup before import and lets you choose between:
Keep backup files somewhere safe because CodePad+ does not currently provide cloud synchronization.
Export All
Export All creates a ZIP archive containing individual note files. Notes with existing extensions keep them; notes without an extension are exported as .txt.
Settings
Settings includes editor preferences, appearance, backup/restore/export actions, and support links.
Available editor options include line numbers, coding shortcut bar, word wrap, font family, font size, and theme.