Chapter 138 Developing an APP
On the afternoon of August 25, at Jiangdong International Airport, a plane slowly landed from the sky. A long and leisurely holiday trip is finally over.
Yuan Yuan snuggled softly on Fang Yan's shoulder, her small hand held Fang Yan's palm, and the tips of her fingers slid gently in his palm, as if she was writing down the names of places.
"Enough fun. Fang Yan asked in a low voice.
"Hey, hey. ”
Yuan Yuan is silly. She spent the happiest summer vacation, ate, slept and ate, and lived comfortably every day. The fly in the ointment is that she didn't take Fang Yan home to meet her parents. She was a little embarrassed and a little scared.
"Go home, eat something delicious. ”
"Hmm. ”
"That's nice. Feng Lu leaned back in his seat and said with satisfaction. She hadn't woken up from the beautiful dreams of her travels. Gradually, her face turned a little red and she smiled happily.
On the other side of the aisle, Lao Zhao was thoughtful.
His hair was cut short, his beard was cleanly shaved, his eyebrows were thick, his cheekbones were high, and his eyes were very bright. He was now in high spirits, he looked neat, and he seemed to be a different person than he had been when he was wandering.
Perhaps it was the sequelae of living on the streets, Fang Yan always felt that Lao Zhao exuded an indescribable black humorous temperament.
"I'll pay you back after I get my bank card. Lao Zhao turned his head and said.
"Good. ”
Lao Zhao disappeared inexplicably for a few months and almost didn't come back. Before returning to China, he bought a lot of gifts for his parents and relatives and borrowed Fang Yan's money.
After recovering from his state, Lao Zhao is a very good buddy to get along with. He is kind, sensitive, and very practical in his words. Although it is still a little rusty and restrained, it is quite comfortable to stay together.
Everyone returned with a full load. Fang Yan went out to play for the first time and brought gifts to everyone.
After walking around the duty-free shop and buying a lot of cigarettes, alcohol, and cosmetics, Fang Yan and Lao Zhao pushed a small cart and slowly walked out of the exit along the flow of people.
"Master!" Yang Zhenyu rushed up, his eyes lit up, revealing a newlywed smile of Xiao Biesheng.
"Zhenyu. ”
"Master!Xiaolu!Hey...... Lao Zhao?"
"Xiao Yang. ”
The huge terminal building stretches as far as the eye can see, full of people, parents pushing strollers, businessmen in a hurry, young men and women dressed in fashionable clothes, a group of foreigners. All kinds of voices come together, and it is very bustling and lively.
Lao Liu also came to pick up the airport. He wears sunglasses, like a middle-aged and elderly cat.
A few days ago, he had been taking care of the black and white piano shop. Paying off mortgages, negotiating rents with shop owners, signing long-term contracts, and finding friends to redesign and renovate, I'm so busy.
Lao Liu was a little emotional.
Fang Yan is very authentic. He rescued a buddy who was living on the street, invested in a piano shop, and gave his girlfriend living expenses. This man...... It's really out of prison.
However, if people are too kind, they are easy to suffer. As the old saying goes, promote Mien, fight Mi hatred. Lao Liu was a little worried. He planned to kindly remind Fang Yan.
"He is Lao Liu, the owner of the Nameless Tavern. This is Lao Zhao. Fang Yan introduced the two of them.
Lao Liu took off his sunglasses and the two shook hands.
"You've worked hard, Brother Liu. Lao Zhao said. He knew that Lao Liu had helped a lot.
This person is not a second. Lao Liu secretly thought, why is it so miserable? He had a little good impression of Lao Zhao, and said with a smile: "Come to my place to drink at night." ”
"I ......"
Lao Zhao smiled a little shyly. He bought a train ticket back to his hometown that day and prepared to go straight home. One is to report to your parents that you are safe, and the other is to use the embassy's certificate to reapply for ID cards and passports.
My girlfriend reconciled, but she was still in Tokyo. He didn't want to delay a day.
Lao Liu drove a small van, first sent Lao Zhao to the train station, and then sent Fang Yan and them home. Yang Zhenyu sat in the co-pilot, chattering, and reported the situation in Jiangdong to Fang Yan.
"The APP development is going well, and now the test is starting, and you can come and have a look at it in the evening. ”
"Good. ”
"The people of Qian Ning are very good. She rented us a very large house. I also bought a computer and a bed, which are quite expensive. The kitchen is also capable of cooking. But we all ordered takeout, and she said the company would reimburse her. ”
"Good. ”
"The decoration of the black and white piano store is very fast, and it is almost finished. ”
"Good. ”
"My daughter-in-law Xia Mo, well, it's a birthday on August 30th, and we want to invite everyone to dinner. ”
"Good. ”
"Your Martin guitar is also very good, Master, don't worry, it's not knocked at all. ”
"Good. ”
"Also, the fat man has gone mad. ”
"Huh?"
Kong Lei has been in a lot of pain these days. Fang Yan was going to release an album for him, and he was practicing hard, the most important of which was "Sputnik". However, Lao Liu didn't let him play, for fear of revealing the secret.
Fifteen-year-old Kong Lei fell into logical confusion. You want me to record, but you don't let me rehearse, what's the matter? He had no choice but to bow his head and play a game.
“……”
"Wen Jing, you have to take care of it. She now lives in the school dormitory and comes to the tavern every day, not playing the piano or talking. Just sit there and learn how to drink. She came here on purpose. Yang Zhenyu said.
“……”
"Brother Xiaomu has returned to Yanjing, and he left the day before yesterday. Did he tell you?"
"I know. ”
Xiaomu wants to go home, and he explained it two days ago.
It's better to go back to China. Everything was so familiar and intimate. Fang Yan felt that the wrinkles on Lao Liu's face were extremely cute. Yang Zhenyu's nagging voice is also very good.
"I want to think about it, what else is going on......" Yang Zhenyu counted his fingers.
The small van drove into the sugar community, and Fang Yan and Yang Zhenyu dragged several large boxes into the elevator. Lao Liu was the first time to come back to Fang Yan's house, he put his hands behind his back, made an inspection, and sat firmly on the sofa.
"Not bad. Lao Liu said.
"Lao Liu, sit down. ”
"Huh?"
Yuan Yuan laboriously put down a large suitcase, buried her head in rummaging for a long time, and took out a large plastic bag. A second-hand mechanical film camera made in Germany in the 1980s, in very new condition, with a shiny metal body, packaging, leather cases, accessories, and paper pieces.
"Hey, hey, hey. ”
Lao Liu smiled with a wrinkled face, skillfully opened the box, glanced at the viewfinder, gently pressed the shutter, and nodded with satisfaction. He held the camera to his chest and tossed and turned it around.
"How much did you buy it?"
"A little over 80,000 yen. ”
Lao Liu couldn't close his mouth and said, "Oh, it's a good deal, no loss, no loss." Hehehe, Xiaoyan, you are so polite to me. ”
“……”
Lao Liu is stingy, if he doesn't buy him a gift, he will definitely have a broken mind.
Fang Yan brought a lot of things to the 4-member group of the Waste Wood Band. Each person has a blue-switch mechanical keyboard with a crisp sound, which is used for writing code. There are also a bunch of toys such as huge gunplas, slightly shameful figures, and the hot Switc*** machine.
"Master. ”
"Hmm. ”
"Come up with me?"
The house rented by the scrap wood band is very close, out of the community, a few hundred meters away. Yang Zhenyu took everyone to visit.
This is a large house with three bedrooms and one living room, more than 120 square meters, which is relatively old. As soon as you enter, there is a huge desk in the middle of the spacious living room, with 6 computers. 2 iMacs, 4 PCs, in a circle. A few chairs were swayed around.
In the middle of the table, there are almost 10 mobile phones, all of which are branded.
The living room has been transformed into an office area, and there are two whiteboards on the wall, on which various flow charts are drawn with thick brushes. The bedroom is a sitting area. This is a small Internet start-up base.
Yu Haiyang, Ding Bo, and Tiger were shirtless, wearing small pants and slippers, sweating profusely at the monitor. They all had cigarettes in their mouths, choking on the smoke and squinting, flicking the ashes from time to time. The air conditioner was not turned on, and the house was full of smoke and miasma.
It's scary.
There was a very expensive Music Man electric guitar on the sofa, newly bought by Yu Haiyang, and a bunch of T-shirts and shorts scattered next to it, as well as potato chip dregs.
The living room is also equipped with a dining table, a small bed, a coffee table, and a variety of takeaway lunch boxes, paper bags, chopsticks, cola cans, and napkins. The band has its own living space, which is even more chaotic than a college dorm. Fang Yan thought, just lived here for a few days?
"Hey, Master is back. Yu Haiyang stood up.
The large living room was bustling with activity.
Lao Liu looked around the room and said with a disgusted face: "There are girls outside the door, waiting." ”
"Oooh!"
Several people hurried back to the house and put on their clothes.
Fang Yan went to a few bedrooms and walked around, but it was also a mess.
"Everything in the dormitory has been moved. The three of us live here, and we don't have any classes in our senior year, and we don't have to look for jobs...... Tiger is in his third year of college and probably lives here. Yang Zhenyu introduced.
Yu Haiyang and they were busy making apps and didn't leave the house for several days.
Feng Lu entered the door, raised her head and stayed for a few seconds, and suddenly turned on the cleaning mode. She took a large plastic bag and filled it with leftovers, lunch boxes, and all kinds of garbage.
“……”
Yu Haiyang sat in front of the computer, full of confidence, and demonstrated the "Nameless Tavern APP" to everyone.
The first version of the Nameless Tavern APP is very simple, basically a function of a WeChat public account. One is to publish articles, videos, and pictures, and the other is to make a simple forum, after users register, they can post and seduce each other.
There is also a web version of the forum.
To put it bluntly, the APP is to move the space of the nameless tavern to the Internet. You can watch Fang Yan's performance, and users can also chat with each other.
Yu Haiyang clicked the mouse and said: "This, the iPhone version is relatively simple, but there are too many models in the Android version, and we are still adapting, that is, the resolution of the screen." Both versions are ready to be released together. ”
"Oh. ”
"In the past two days, the forum has been loading very slowly, I don't know how to do it, it's just slow. We still have to adjust. You see, it's slow, it's slow. ”
"Oh. ”
"In the next edition, we plan to make a small store and sell T-shirts directly in the app. ”
"Ahh ”
Yu Haiyang is a product manager. He logged into the test account and posted a post in the forum: [Subject: Master is home].
……
There was no movement. The small icon on the screen turned around for a long time, and suddenly a window popped up: Failed to send.
A couple of scrap wood went crazy.
"Ahhh
"Grass!"
"Your sister!"
"It's too unreliable, Ding Bo, you check. ”
"I want to curse. ”
Only the tiger stood aside, silent, bowing his head to play with the switch box. After everyone tinkered for a while, the APP forum was finally able to post.
"Actually, we're all scumbags. Ding Bo explained, a little embarrassed.
Yuan Yuan nodded: "I know." ”
In the corner of the living room, Feng Lu swept the floor silently.
This version of the app is very unstable, the code is bloated, and there are a lot of small bugs hidden in it, but it doesn't matter, it was like this at the beginning. Now it's an alpha version, and when the product is stable, it becomes a beta version, which can be released for a small range of testing, and finally can be released.
When the app is ready, it needs to be submitted to the Apple app store for review and released in each Android app store. As for how to promote it, that's Kogi's job.
Yu Haiyang took his brothers and tossed day and night, only realizing the basic functions. Moreover, although the APP is a flat visual style, it looks very ugly, and the color scheme is also very strange.
Feng Lu lowered her head and swept the floor, passed by the desk, and glanced at the screen. muttered, "It's ugly, it's ugly." ”
“……”
It costs more money to make an APP. Qian Ning purchased 6 computers and spent 100,000 yuan at once. I bought a test phone and spent 20,000. Various software packages cost 20,000. The rent of the house is 10,000 yuan, and more than 40,000 yuan of various furniture and daily necessities. Yang Zhenyu: They subsidize 5,000 yuan per month.
There is also a lot of money for food.
However, if you rent an office space, the rent is more than twice as expensive.
After the APP is launched, you will have to buy a cloud server, which will continue to burn money.
It's not over yet, and the scrap wood band will continue to maintain and develop a new version. As long as the nameless tavern company doesn't go out of business for a day, the work will be endless.
After Feng Lu finished sweeping the floor, she picked up a bucket of water in the bathroom, took a brand new unopened mop, slowly soaked it, and began to mop the floor. Yuan Yuan also followed behind to clean up. The room was too messy, and it looked like it would take a long time to clean up.
"I'll go back first. Lao Liu said.
"Good. ”
"Do you want to sing at night?"
"Sing. ”
Lao Liu is gone. The 4-member group of the Scrapwood Band sat at the big conference table, which was more embarrassing. This small APP, the demonstration is over in 3 minutes.
Yang Zhenyu sighed. He originally wanted to give Fang Yan a small hand, but Mu Youyou succeeded.
"Are you tired?"
Several people shook their heads.
Ding Bo slumped in his chair, shook his head and said, "It's not tired, it's just annoying." You know, there's a feeling you can't get out. When this APP is finished, it is enough for us to directly use it as a graduation project. ”
"Hmm. “
The German-Italian University is a key university, and as soon as the senior year begins, various companies will come to the school to recruit one after another. Once the students have found a job, they will go to the company for internships. Yang Zhenyu and they all saved these things, and they were very down-to-earth.
"Did you rehearse?"
"Rehearsal?"
"What is a rehearsal?"
The Scrapwood Band passed the audition of the college band competition, stood out from more than 1,000 bands, and entered the top 100 semi-finals. But since I accepted the APP task, I haven't rehearsed much.
Everyone knows in their hearts that entering the audition is already the limit. The band only plays eighth notes, and there is a lot of progress in the short term, but the technique is still quite scummy.
Yu Haiyang and Yang Zhenyu both passed the audition of "Chinese Singer", but they were not ready for the rematch. In the next round of singers, the strength of the two is considered to be at the bottom, and it is useless to practice.
The development of the app is the new goal, and everyone is doing their best. The band's business has to be put on the back burner.
"Qian Ning is too ruthless, he calls me every day to urge and urge, and he asks very carefully. Yu Haiyang complained. "But you think, she rented a house for us, bought a computer, everything, and made us lose our temper. ”
"Capitalists are like that. "The tiger is silly on the sidelines.
"Let's go, let's eat. Fang Yan said.
Yang Zhenyu shook his head and said, "Wait for tomorrow, I still have to work tonight." ”
"Hmm. ”
Ding Bo took out his mobile phone, prepared to order a meal, and asked Fang Yan: "McDonald's?"
"Done. ”
Yuan Yuan was wiping the table, and hurriedly stopped him, saying, "I don't eat McDonald's! You can order Cantonese food, and Sichuan cuisine will also be made." ”
"Oh. ”
Ding Bo ordered 7 or 8 very hard Sichuan dishes, Mao Xuewang, boiled beef, mapo tofu, kung pao chicken, garlic white meat...... It's a simple dinner. The invoices for the meals are kept, and they have to be handed over to Qian Ning every month.
Feng Lu and Yuan Yuan cleaned the living room, and the three bedrooms were also simply cleaned, and the windows were opened for ventilation, so they could finally rest for a while. All kinds of lunch boxes are filled with coffee tables, and everyone sits around and hugs them.
After talking a lot about Ben and Lao Zhao, Fang Yan asked again: "What day is the band competition?"
"Just these two days. ”
"No, I won't. They called the other day to inform us of the rehearsal, and we didn't go either. ”
Yu Haiyang flipped through his mobile phone for a long time and said: "The rematch is on the 26th, tomorrow." ”
"Hey, no. ”
"It doesn't mean anything. ”
Fang Yan nodded. If you don't go, don't go. However, when the APP is over, the band still has to continue rehearsing, otherwise it will be really useless.
Yuan Yuan hadn't eaten Huaxia food for a long time, and she missed it very much. The quality of this Sichuan food takeaway is average, but she still eats it and listens to the boys chatting silently. Then she suddenly stretched out her little hand.
"Go and play. ”
"Huh?"
"You go and play once, and you are not afraid of losing. Band Contest. I want to see your show. ”
“……”
Yuan Yuan's glasses reflected the light, and said seriously: "I know, you will definitely be eliminated, but don't forget, you are waste wood." I'm rooting for you. ”
Yang Zhenyu and the others all put down their chopsticks, looked at each other, and they all burst into tears. Yuan Yuan, are you our fan? This one...... We have fans too.
"Go!"
"Match!"
"Sister-in-law, just say this to you, we are not afraid of being embarrassed!"
"Death is death. ”
"Yes, my sister-in-law is the largest shareholder, she has spoken, no matter how much Qian Ning urges, we are not afraid. ”
"Don't be afraid of her!"
It was lively in the living room. Yuan Yuan was stupid for a while, and then lowered his head to eat the vegetables.