So I did the Notepadv1 tutorial. It worked great. No problems. I would however like some explanation on why the mNoteNumber remembers the last number of the item I created.

So the class starts as follows:

public class Notepadv1 extends ListActivity {
     private int mNoteNumber = 1;

That's fine, I understand that. The only other time the mNoteNumber variable is used is when you add an item it creates a note with that number and then increments it to the next number as follows:

private void createNote() {
 String noteName = "Note " + mNoteNumber++;

Those are the only two references to the variable mNoteNumber. When I press the Home button and then reopen the app, I add a new note but instead of adding a second "Note 1" it remembers that the last note I added as "Note 3" so it makes "Note 4". So I don't get it. Does Java/Android remember the last state of variables?

If anyone could give me some explanation that would be great THANKS!