More than 10 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple's AppStore and with the right combination of original ideas, great features, solid coding, unique designs, and savvy marketing, your apps could be a part of that staggering number. This book shows you how to turn your ideas into profit-making success stories. Citing a fascinating array of real-world examples, this useful book invites you to meet the rich and famous of the app development world. You'll look behind the scenes of these successful visionaries to learn their secrets first hand and discover how these "bedroom coders" became overnight millionaires. PART I: THE BIRTH OF THE APP · Introduction · The Rise of the App · A Bedroom Revolution · The Gold Rush · The First Million PART II: THE APPILLIONAIRES · Doodle Jump · Harbor Master · Pocket God · StickWars · Angry Birds PART III: THE APP REVOLUTION · From Bedroom to Boardroom · Life in the Trenches · The Future of the App