On the Chinese Internet, the ultra-first-tier cities of the north and the north and the depths of the city, as small as the 18-line small town of the horns, are inevitably have an encyclopedia entry.

But you may have discovered it. Until today, there isn’t a refineable guidebook that can be used to quickly understand the customs of the country.

Yes, no.

Yang Qiyu (@KITTEN-YANG) wants to make one.

The only advantage he has is that he is a style photographer and a developer.

Therefore, with “Hua Xia Wan Xiang”.

“Huaxia Vientiane” is a systematic summary of the geography, humanities and history of Chinese provinces. This app mainly contains encyclopedias. And the two major parts of the library, among which the encyclopedia is an introduction to each province in terms of geography, history, culture, world heritage, town, and diet. It uses a horizontal scrolling design similar to a slide, like a picture scroll. Expand and introduce the unique story of each province.

In the gallery section, the author carefully selects all the photos taken in this year and a half, sorts them into categories, and puts them in each province. Under, as a supplement to the various provinces.

Enter the main interface of the application, the map of the motherland in the vast sea of ​​stars is presented in three dimensions, with application details buttons and operation guide buttons below, which are simple and clear. Each province’s corresponding section clicks to enter the encyclopedia page, each page is illustrated, the number of words is very simple, you can understand by sliding left and right.Distinctive cuisine, customs, landforms and history in every place. When you enter different sections, there will be vibration feedback, and the animation is also very interesting. Some of the effects are shaking the phone or sliding and there are small surprises.

After the encyclopedia is over, continue to slide left into the gallery. The gallery is a one-and-a-half-year tour of the motherland of the country. All pictures are free to download for personal use.

The actual experience, you can use it as a travel guide manual, do not have to do very complicated Raiders, follow it You can travel all over the country and you can easily complete the self-driving tour. It can also be regarded as a miniature science popularization book. The introduction is short and clear, and the fragmentation time can also be quickly immersed in it. The content of small space is also very easy to read.

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“Huaxia Vientiane” is now version 1.0, there is still a lot of room for improvement and development, and friends who have experienced it Some suggestions have been made. For example, the existing library content is relatively small. If the user can take a picture and upload some real shot pictures, they will be published in the corresponding provincial cities through auditing, enriching the application content; Chinese food is all-encompassing, allowing local people to recommend special foods to be added to the application. In the expansion of food articles.

You can also add voice explanation and screenshot sharing functions like the application of the Palace Museum in the same type. Subsequent applications can be extended from micro encyclopedias to richer and more comprehensive parties.To develop, become a true motherland river and mountains.

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As the author’s Weibo expresses: Although such an application does not allow thousands of years of Chinese cultural heritage to be revealed, only Being able to present representative things from different places as much as possible, igniting people’s love for nature and curiosity about traditional history and culture, and thus wanting to explore the profound cultural heritage of the motherland, can achieve the original purpose of this application, so That’s enough.

“Huaxia Vientiane” has been adapted for iPad, for iPhone & iPad, for $1, and has traditional Chinese and English version, the current Android version is also in preparation.

Today, we also invited the developer of “Huaxia Vientiane” to ask him to talk about the story behind this app.

Get to know 杨骑滔

My name isYang Qiyu, also called me Xiao K, is an independent developer and freelance photographer. Weibo: @KITTEN-YANG

From developing this app to publishing, has it exceeded your expectations?

It took a total of 5 months to complete. I remember very clearly that the project that started on the last day of February this year was not officially completed until the last few days of July this year. The time span far exceeds expectations.

The first time you made an app 4/5 was spent on data collation, and each province’s copywriting needs to be checked.After reading a large amount of materials and articles, it can be summed up. The production of each page is also a day of the arch, especially when making maps of mountains and water systems.

The 34 provinces in the app have a total of 1930 pages and at least 2,000 images.

Looking back now, thanks to the lack of calculation of this workload in advance, otherwise you know that this number may have long since given up.

What are the biggest challenges in the development process?

It may be that you can’t see the copying and mapping of the head.

There is often a scene in the development process: it’s hard to finish a province, and another province, how to do it, not to end. I often fall into a thought. Is it really worthwhile to spend these hours and energy doing these jobs? People can go to Wikipedia, do you have to spend so much energy on making the pictures you have taken?

But these concerns were quickly dispelled by the original intention of doing this app. Without these attractive products, people may notI will realize that I have to find out about the land I live in. It is the greatest value of this app that can evoke people’s interest in Chinese culture and natural scenery.

Is there any help from the outside world in the encyclopedia?

I have done this myself.

Starting a new province usually, I’ll take a look at Wikipedia’s introduction to the province and combine the knowledge I’ve known to summarize the keywords. Then go to Wikipedia for each keyword. Many times, I’m addicted to Wikipedia’s nested hyperlinks, so I’ve forgotten what I want to summarize.

In addition to watching Wikipedia, I will also look at the articles of the Planet Institute, the Earth Knowledge Bureau, and the Earth Traveler. They are all about the provinces. Regional humanities and history articles, although subjective, are also worth a look, for WikipediaThe knowledge of cold and ice will be more emotionally supplemented.

After reading the above information, you can basically summarize the copy of each province. Here, usually a daytime is over.

What do you think is the iterative space of Huaxia Vientiane, and how will it develop in the future?

The key to this kind of science education app on mobile phones is interesting, and may not be deep enough, but it’s focused on exquisite and inspiring people’s interest in the App. Further research is going on. If there is cooperation that is conducive to this original intention, it can be considered. For the time being, the content of “Hua Xia Vientiane” has been able to achieve my original intention of making this product.

As for the content is not finished, and “Huahua Vientiane” does not want to make a Wikipedia-style all-inclusive, this matter will be handed over to the Internet.

In the future, I hope that this wave of heat will pass quickly, because my vision of “Huaxia Vientiane” is still flowing, which can continue to influence later people.

I hope that one day in the future, when I even forgot to have developed this app, a letter from a young man suddenly appeared in the mailbox saying: “Thank you. The seniors developed this app, which made me interested in Chinese culture and nature. This is what I want most.

Where are the pictures of “Huaxia Vientiane” come from?

The source of the encyclopedia’s map includes copyright-free images of Public Domain and CC0, satellite screenshots of Google Earth, and pictures taken by yourself.

The photos in the gallery section are all taken by myself. These photos were carefully selected from the 10w photos taken on the way to China in the first half of this year. Classified by location, subject, as a supplement to each province, and all images can be downloaded for personal use for free.

How do family members rate”Huaxia Vientiane”?

It’s something I didn’t expect to say. My family didn’t really know what my job was, and they couldn’t use it.

But after the release of “Hua Xia Vientiane”, my friend circle actually saw several consecutive friends and relatives forwarding recommendations, and there are also loved ones to download and use. Said the feeling.

This feeling has never been seen, just as the two world’s dimension walls have been broken. This also makes me believe that “Huaxia Vientiane” will become an application that is suitable for all ages and the people, and can serve more people.

How can I let more people know about your app?

What I can do is to create content with confidence, to make sure the app has no serious bugs, and then regular promotion. I don’t want to rack my brains to advertise over-promotion, a little peddling, and the application is free.

I also said in front of the vision of “Huaxia Vientiane”, not asking for big red and purple, but seeking long-term flow, can continue to influence more people in the future,” Peaches and plums, the next from Seikei”.

How do I ensure that the app is loved by users?

No one can guarantee that a successful one is constantly trying to find out. It can only be said that there is a greater probability of being experienced by users after more experience. Favorite app. I still have no ability to answer this question.

How do you get feedback on this App?

Unexpected!

What kind of mental preparation did you take from the company, travel around China and develop apps independently? What is the biggest change in life?

Leave yourself three months of capital, and do your best to go back to work even if you fail, and there is nothing shameful, at least you are better than The people who are bored on the mouth of the mouth but are afraid to act are much stronger.

If you succeed, your life will start a new page.

The biggest change in life is to start living for yourself. It’s always what I’m trying to do to give life journeys more exciting stories and to leave something to the world. I don’t want to be too successful, but this is really what I think now.

What skills do you have in order to make this app?

PS, AE, C4D.

What was your biggest feeling when you explored China in 2018?

Human beings are part of nature. The history of human beings moving into the city (Urbanization, 1867) is more than a hundred years old and should not be forgotten to be close to nature. At the same time, we must not forget history, forget where we are from, and we should have a certain understanding of the culture of our country.

Reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles should complement each other. After truly exploring these places, there will be a deeper experience, which the book can’t give.

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What are the interesting stories that can be shared with AppSo these days as independent developers?

More versatile, everything has to be arranged by yourself.

Before you can concentrate on doing one thing in the company, you don’t have to worry about anything else. Now you have to do it yourself, forcing yourself to be all-powerful. .

What are the plans for next, I want you to wait to finish?

There will continue to develop several new works that have been conceived, and then move to the direction of professional landscape photographers.

This half-year trip made me find my own affiliation – nature. At the same time, I will go to shoot some documentaries. After walking around China, I found that there are many unknown stories in the world that are worthy of record. I want to tell them by means of images and arouse people’s emotional resonance.

Develop this app, under what circumstances can you be sure that the direction is right?

When I was finished playing the code and running it in my hands, I was touched by myself.

Can you share your daily workflow with us?

I usually work at night, working every day from 12:00 am to 5:00 am the next morning. I usually sleep in the morning.

What are the ways to get inspiration?

Involved in everything, broadening the knowledge, often produces unexpected cross-border combinations. For example, after learning the music theory, I began to think about how to develop an app that everyone can create arrangements for….. and so on.

Where do you like to shoot?

Snow Mountain! Or if there is no light pollution, take a galaxy at night, and the Snow Mountain Galaxy will be even better.

I strongly recommend that you arrange an outdoor Galaxy viewing tour, which is a truly shocking experience.

Can you share some useful shooting techniques with us?

Multi-shot, more practice, more look (reasonEveryone knows that there is often very little to do.)

What do you usually like to do in addition to photography and development?

Reading books (humanities and social sciences, biographies), watching documentaries, guitar arrangers, shooting and editing videos.

What are the work/life habits?

1. The habit of accumulation. More commonly used more flash capsules, impression notes, collect the ideas that come to mind in life.

2. The habit of writing a diary. Record thoughts and insights from time to time. Also, after reading a book or a movie, I am used to writing something about what I feel, and develop my thinking ability and writing ability.

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