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Pi Network has switched on backend support for Pi App Studio, its AI-powered app-building platform, calling it a major shift in what creators can build on the network.What’s newThe first capability rolled out on the new backend is persistent storage, according to an announcement from the official Pi Core Team account. The feature lets newly created App Studio apps save and retrieve user-specific data across sessions, meaning progress no longer disappears the moment someone closes the app and walks away.The team gave concrete use cases to illustrate the shift. Game apps built with App Studio can now remember and store a user’s high scores between play sessions. Productivity apps can hold onto to-do lists between visits without requiring users to rebuild them each time, and note-taking apps can preserve entries automatically as they are written.Why it mattersBefore this update, App Studio apps always lost saved progress when users leave, since the platform was largely limited to frontend-only, single-session experiences. Preferences, in-app progress, and other user data would simply vanish the moment someone exited an app, forcing creators to design around that limitation or skip building certain types of apps altogether.“Adding backend support is a significant App Studio platform milestone because it expands what AI-created apps can practically do on Pi Network,” the Pi Core Team said in its<a href="https://x.com/PiCoreTeam/status/2074959938422473056?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> announcement.</a>Persistent storage is described as the very first capability built on this new backend layer, with the team calling it the foundation for a broader range of everyday, useful applications going forward. Additional backend capabilities are expected to build on top of this groundwork over time.Pi Network is encouraging creators to explore the update directly inside App Studio and begin building apps that take advantage of the new persistent storage feature, opening the door to more functional, long-term user experiences on the platform.

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