I have a question about developing a simple notebook

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I read the link as above, see the NotesAdapter java file code, do not understand & gt and what is the meaning, I write in the android studio will be prompted to have errors, and then, notesList from where the previous code did not mention this
I am very confused, I hope we can help me a question

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