Acknowledgments

I had a random selection of folks who helped me tackle topics in writing this book. If I’ve forgotten anyone, it was unintentional!

Thanks to Rich Schaut, for my first interview for this book and getting this book project started.

Eric Paquin, thank you for being so responsive to my questions, reviewing my proposal, and giving suggestions.

Kyle Sluder, thanks for taking the time to go over your TextViewWritingDirection GitHub project.

Much appreciation to my translation buddies: to Joachim Hill-Grannec for the French translations and to Yuji Hayano for his gracious, never-ending help in translating and supplying Japanese strings ().

Can Berk Güder, thanks for helping me complete the “Turkey test”—getting me real Turkish words using the Turkish “i.”

Jeremiah Johnson and Cody Vandermyn, thanks for letting me peek over your shoulders to get a better handle on working with iTunes Connect. Thanks also for the answers to the various and sundry iOS development questions you’ve fielded frequently.

Many thanks to my manager at Nordstrom, Keith Willsey, who encouraged our team to participate in the Seattle iOS Developer Meetups, which led to my extension lecture position at the University of Washington, which led to getting contacted by Trina MacDonald, which led to this book coming into existence.

Tim Ekl, thanks for your patience in working through my right-to-left language implications of Auto Layout and constraints at our “localized lunches.”

Jason Christensen, thanks for being “on call” with your Unicode help!

Thanks to Trina MacDonald for presenting this opportunity and support and to Olivia Basegio for keeping things rolling steady behind the scenes.

I’ve accumulated technical debt to Nick Lockwood for his tech review of my chapters, keeping me honest, and not missing the things I missed.

Thanks to friends, family, and colleagues for their encouragement and keeping me going by always asking, “How’s the book going?”

And my greatest appreciation goes to my wife, Amy, for first being the “teaching widow” and then the “book widow.” Your support and belief in me means the world to me. Thank you so much, love! I’m almost done; I’ll be back for our weekends and evenings!