Lasted a year, my book "The First line code--android" Hot Pre-sale!

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Objective

In fact, I decided to start blogging the idea is quite simple, feel that I have been engaged in technology for so many years, should always leave something. Since there is no good application, then at least leave some text to share with you to guide the developers behind me, after all, I also from the predecessors of the blog to benefit a lot.

Be invited

Determined after I started my blog tour, so I did not think that I wrote the article is very popular with everyone, a short period of time gathered a lot of popularity. Even more to my surprise, after I began to write a blog shortly after, the people post and Telecommunications press Turing Company's deputy editor-in-chief Bryan Chen Bing contacted me, I hope I can write a book about the development of Android technology!

Bryan Chen Bing, the first time to hear this name when I believe that everyone and I will not be familiar with, but when he told me that he had planned "big talk design mode" This book, I immediately rushed to my bookcase and found it, opened the title page impressively in the editor that column saw Bryan Chen Bing name, back can see him for The preface of "Big Talk design mode". At this time my heart only a thought, he invited me to write this book I am no matter how can not refuse, I want to write! And be sure to write beautifully!

Creation

Then I began to conceive how to complete the book. The process of creation is doomed to be difficult, although I have some experience in blogging, but write a book is really the first time, and write a book and blog has a big gap. Blog content can be more scattered, think of where to write, but the content of the book must be systematized, pay attention to gradual progress, basically in the 1th chapter of the time should be the contents of the books are determined down.

It's so hard to start with everything, so I first took about two weeks to make a catalogue of the book, which became the outline behind my writing. Bryan Chen Bing told me that if I could make the catalogue, I would have done 80% of the work, but it turns out that even with the catalogue, things are far from as simple as imagined. After all, I can't devote myself to writing books, because I have to work every day, sometimes overtime, I can only after work to start to tidy up their thoughts, and then pen. In addition, I have been strictly confidential about writing a book, and did not make any disclosure on the blog, so I can not stop updating the blog for this reason, still adhere to the rhythm of a weekly or two-week article.

In this way, the checks and balances between work, blog and book writing, although very hard, but I did not leave any one. Work is still very good, the quality of the blog is obvious to all, and the book How to get the hands of everyone to know. The time I wrote was probably to keep the progress of the two chapters of the month, including the period of the Spring Festival holiday, and ended up in the final draft in March of this year, just in time for the deadline. Here my work has been basically completed, the following tasks began to take over by the publishing house, they audit, proofreading, typesetting, design cover, printing, finally in late July began pre-sale, a year of hard will see the results, I also expressed great expectations.

Comparison

After describing the process of creation, let's take a look at the book. This book is called "The first line of code--android", from the name can be seen, this is a book for beginners, I particularly want to write a book like this, because it can and my blog complements. Because I write blog time is relatively late, 13 years only began to write, at that time a lot of Android technology related content has been written, repeat and write again what others have written is obviously too creative, so I gave my blog set a theme, that is, only write more advanced application technology. However, although the theme of the blog is very clear, but obviously not suitable for beginners to read, from the numerous comments I can see, there are many friends of the basic skills is not solid enough, if you can combine a book to introduce the foundation of the book to consolidate the basic skills, then you really become invulnerable, so the first line of code- Android was born.

Let me make a brief comparison of the contents of the blog and the book, so that we have a number in mind.

    • The book is more likely to introduce Android basics, and blogs are more likely to introduce advanced Android techniques.
    • When reading a book you don't need to have any Android basics, while reading a blog you need to have a pretty good Android base.
    • The content of the book is more systematic, scientific, and the content of the blog is relatively scattered (this is the inevitable phenomenon, one is carefully planned out, one is to think where to write where).
    • Due to the respect of the readers, I will not simply copy the contents of the blog into the book, and for the protection of copyright, I will not publish the contents of the book on the blog. Therefore, the content of the book and the blog will not have a common intersection, so the book friends will not have to buy a paper version of the blog feel.
Characteristics

Of course, my book does not always talk about the basics, and if it doesn't have any features, then it's no different from the rest of the book on the market. In fact, calling the book a better place to go from beginner to advanced, you don't need to have any Android base to read it, but it will take you step-by-point into the features of Android. There are many chapters I think is very special, for example, the second chapter on the activity start mode is very detailed explanation, the market most similar books do not have this part of the content, the seventh chapter on the explanation of ContentProvider is quite in place, I believe can meet a lot of friends desire for knowledge. For example, most chapters will be accompanied by a best practice section, many of which are summed up in my daily work, and must apply to you. For example, the book will be interspersed with the use of Git, and teach you how to host the code to GitHub, how to put the software on Google Play, how to embed ads in the software profit and so on, and so on, I do not mention, waiting for you to find.

In addition, in order to make this book not boring, I try to make their language humorous, but after all, not good at this aspect, did not do well. But the experience, upgrade, and treasure system introduced in this book makes up for this, and through constant reading, you'll gain experience, upgrade, and win incredible treasures that will make you feel more fun in the reading process. This system is written by Bryan Chen Bing, if you read after the system has any feedback or suggestions, you can send mail to him ([email protected]).

Many friends have asked me privately, how to learn how to improve Android, so today I can give the answer. Book and blog to study together, it is recommended to first read the foundation, and then look at the blog to advance, when you put the books and blog content are thoroughly understand, then I will be the things you will.

Cover

See here, I believe some friends can not wait to buy a copy of it? Don't worry, let's look at the cover of the book again. The design of the cover is not my responsibility, but the birth of the process is also experienced a variety of twists and turns. Bryan Chen Bing on the cover of the requirements are very harsh, both have the depth and meaning, but also to attract attention, and to give a person want to open the impulse. After about two months of design, the so-called "best cover of the year has finally come out", let's enjoy:


Red is the colour of the color system, making it stand out from the heavy books, so people can see it at a glance.

Let's look at the poster:


How, is there a sense of visual shock?! Although the final cover of the eye, but nothing is out of nowhere, the process of creation must have its hardships and twists and turns, I will be in a later article specifically described the birth of this cover, interested friends can be like the story to understand.

Pricing

79 Yuan, see this price when I believe many friends think not cheap, but in fact this is the best I can get the price. Since the price of the book is determined by the publishing house based on the number of pages, I am not able to intervene too much. Usually more than 500 pages of books can be priced to more than 80, more than 90 yuan, the lowest can not be less than 79 yuan, so I decisively applied for the lowest price.

In fact, a thought to think, 79 yuan is not expensive, because this is the original price of the book, and we buy books on the internet is usually discounted, low discount case also only need fifty or sixty dollars can buy. In addition, I think the purchase of books do not pay too much attention to the price, but should be more concerned about the contents of the book, as long as the content can really bring you help, then its value is far greater than the dozens of dollars (for my own, I spent a total of about 2000 of the cost of living in college for books, these books have been treasured in Is my everlasting wealth).

Buy

Know so much, do not know whether you are determined to buy a copy? At present, "the first line of code--android" This book has been in when, interactive these two online bookstore shelves, the need for small partners please poke the following address:

Dangdang Purchase Address

Interactive Publishing Purchase Address

Due to the long list of books, I did not post it in the blog, you can see in any of the above bookstore in the directory of the book.

And then

The publication of the book is a new milestone in the way of my program, but the road to life is still long and the future still needs to be pushed forward. Therefore, I will continue to adhere to the update blog, self-promotion and also share to everyone. Because of the reasons for the blog, I met a lot of far apart new friends, thanks to many friends and relatives of all the way, I hope everyone in the future will be able to day up.

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