White - Idea to iPhone: the essential guide to creating your first app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

This edition first published 2013

2013 Carla White

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About the Author

Carla White is a designer, writer and business-MacGyver whose apps have been featured by Apple, USA Today, NPR, Oprah, Successful Living Magazine and many other major publications across the globe. As both a speaker and a consultant, she helped software giants and small businesses bring breakthrough ideas to life. She's a Human Factors specialist with an MBA and MIS and has launched business practices and products all over the world for companies as big as Microsoft and as small as her own two-person startups.

Born to a farmer and a photographer, Carla inherited her dad's work ethics and resourcefulness and her mom's artistic eye. She was also born with an insatiable curiosity, which earned her an alphabet soup of degrees, but more importantly provoked her to travel solo coast-to-coast in a beat up Chevy (twice). She lived in California to learn how to surf (and failed) and Colorado to learn how to snowboard (and loved it). She got her first big girl job working for the Pentagon and was also a translator for the 1996 Olympics. She's since ventured to all corners of the globe, lived in Europe for over ten years, and speaks multiple languages. Her life recently has come full circle and she now resides back in her home state of South Dakota with her husband, son, and dog. When Carla isn't having adventures with her family, she enjoys yoga, running, and throwing a mean dinner party.

Today Carla runs her app agency Happy Tapper, creator of the apps Gratitude Journal, Vision Board, and Little Buddha, where she offers consulting as well as design services. Carla is on a mission to show everyone how to find happiness through gratitude and giving back as well as motivating women to succeed.

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Dedication

To Colin and NicoI love you beyond words.

To my parents, John and JeanetteI owe everything to you.

Gratitude

I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides. I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth and of peace. And when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

--posted on my Facebook wall

First, I want to thank my loving and above-and-beyond supportive husband, Colin. You put your life on hold while I worked early mornings and weekends. You believed in me and I'm forever grateful. I love you dearly.

I also want to thank my son, Nico, for constantly reminding me to live in the moment and for filling me with endless inspiration. I hope it ripples to every person who reads this book. As your mom, I want to make you proud and show you that every dream is within reach.

Mike Rohde, I want to thank you for answering my emails and agreeing to do this project. Your illustrations have transformed this book. I feel honored to have my creations on the same pages as yours.

Sara Shlaer, you've been a world-class editor, molding all my half-baked ideas and cutting the lame jokes. Your endless striving for absolute perfection has taught me a great deal, something that I will carry throughout the rest of my career. Much obliged.

I want to thank Wiley for believing in me. Your team has been nothing but the best to work with. They were always professional, helpful, and understanding. A special thanks to Ellie Scott for making all of this happen. I also want to thank Chris Webb for being open to my ideas and embracing them, as well as the rest of the thoughtful and creative team at Wiley.

Thank you David Loewenthal for reaching out to me all those years ago and helping me get this far in the app business. Hopefully one day we'll actually meet.

Featured Developers: Thanks to Loren Britchter, Mark Jardine, Bobby George, Christopher Taylor, Alain Hufkens, Paddy Donnelly, Andy Skirvin, John Casasanta, Patrick Wetherille, and Shelby Meinzer. Your insights have made this book all that much better.