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Swiss railway audio tour guide app Fensterplatz Version 3 in english and german language is now available.

Hear all great stories on the country and the people, on railway technics as well as nature in english language.

Tourguide Fensterplatz - which means window seat - is the official outdoor audio guide for your ride with the Appenzeller Bahnen. While travelling the network of the Appenzeller Bahnen you hear information which relates to the locations you are passing by.

Get more information as well as english and german audio samples at fensterlatz.ch ⇢.

Smells like team spirit—TouchingCode releases EHF EURO handball app

We are delighted to announce today the release of the official Women's EHF EURO handball app.

The first ever launched app for a European handball championship brings to you a superb mix of detailed information about this unique sport event and play-along pieces for all fans and handball lovers.

The app provides detailed information about each team and each player as well as up-to-date statistics like best team, best player and an amazing live scoreboard.

And then there is the participation area for all fans and all who keep their fingers crossed for their favourite team. In the match predictor you guess the results of all 47 matches and see your standing among all other participants. The All Star team voting will take place after the main round. Everybody can vote for the tournaments best players and get a change to win a price.

Women's European Handball championship takes place from 29 Nov to 16 Dec 2018 in France.

The EHF EURO 2018 app is an APMATO app for iOS and Android.

See also the Announcement by the European Handball Federation (EHF) ⇢ and the EHF EURO 2018 website ⇢

You may download the iOS and android versions here:

TouchingCode provides mobile app for German Trade Mission to Israel

This years delegates trip to the DLD in Israel is equipped with an info-app powered by TouchingCode's APMATO App-CMS.

Just in time for the start of the 8th annual DLD conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, TouchingCode provides an info-app for the delegates from Germany.

The German Interactive Media Trade Mission app combines information about the location as well as the economic regions of Israel and Germany. But as a key feature the app presents all German participating companies and their representatives as well as organisations in context.

The app was designed and created with apmato within 2 days.

Downloads:

Swiss railway tour guide Fensterplatz Version 2.0 released

With Fensterplatz Version 2.0 all audio content the app contains has been revised and newly recorded. New stories and locations have been added and Fensterplatz is even more interesting.

TouchingCode releases the location based outdoor audio guide Fensterplatz together with the Noexis AG, St. Gallen. While travelling the network of the Appenzeller Bahnen you listen to stories and facs about the local history, crafts and traditions, economic facts as well as information about the railway technology which relates to the locations you are passing by.

The app is currently available in German language. An English version is planned for the next release.

For more information about the app and the railway network visit fensterlatz.ch ⇢.

Audio-Guide Fensterplatz Android version now in the store

Fensterplatz – Traintour Appenzellerland now also available for smartphones based on the Android-OS.

Those who travel the lines of the Swiss Appenzeller Bahnen may now install or audio guide Fensterplatz - Traintour Appenzellerland and start listening. We recommend to use your ear phones.

"In die Appenzeller Bahnen einsteigen, Kopfhörer aufsetzen, Fensterplatz-App starten – und los geht’s. Mit dem digitalen Reiseführer geniessen Sie Postkartenaussicht und erfahren spannende Geschichten. Der in der Fensterplatz-App integrierte Tour-Guide führt Sie durch das bezaubernde Appenzellerland. Erfahren Sie die Vorzüge der Region auf eine neue Art und Weise.

Die Kombination aus digitalen Inhalten und bezaubernden Sehenswürdigkeiten machen die Traintour Appenzellerland zum unvergesslichen Erlebnis. Ob Sie als Pendler oder Touristin, Gelegenheitsfahrer oder Schülerin unterwegs sind – Sie erhalten die Geschichten zu den von Ihnen gewählten Themen punktgenau am Ort des Geschehens."

The app was build by TouchingCode for swiss local raileway company Appenzeller Bahnen AG. Editing the multimedia content was done in our apmato cms interface. The editorial staff created POIs on the track using the apmato POI editor for the different themes economy and politics, culture and native living, railway technics and history as well as country and people. Using our known extremely easy to use APMATO editor to add audio, video, image and text content.

The app is in german language and runs completely offline during the travel.

You may download the iOS and android versions here:

Swiss local railway relies on Apmato

Fensterplatz – Traintour Appenzellerland now available.

Wir are proud to announce today the availability of our new app Fensterplatz - Traintour Appenzellerland: The digital travel guide.

"In die Appenzeller Bahnen einsteigen, Kopfhörer aufsetzen, Fensterplatz-App starten – und los geht’s. Mit dem digitalen Reiseführer geniessen Sie Postkartenaussicht und erfahren spannende Geschichten. Der in der Fensterplatz-App integrierte Tour-Guide führt Sie durch das bezaubernde Appenzellerland. Erfahren Sie die Vorzüge der Region auf eine neue Art und Weise.

Die Kombination aus digitalen Inhalten und bezaubernden Sehenswürdigkeiten machen die Traintour Appenzellerland zum unvergesslichen Erlebnis. Ob Sie als Pendler oder Touristin, Gelegenheitsfahrer oder Schülerin unterwegs sind – Sie erhalten die Geschichten zu den von Ihnen gewählten Themen punktgenau am Ort des Geschehens."

The app was build by us for Appenzeller Bahnen AG. Editing the multimedia content was done in our apmato cms interface. The editorial staff created POIs on the track using the apmato POI editor for the different themes economy and politics, culture and native living, railway technics and history as well as country and people. Using the known super easy apmato editing principles to add audio, video, image and text content.

The app is in german language and runs completely offline during the travel.

You may download the version for iOS devices right now. A version for Android will follow soon. Thanks for waiting:

Mall of Berlin center app powered by apmato.

With the release of the update of the Mall of Berlin center app TouchingCode starts to provide mobile technology to Berlin's largest shopping mall.

The app has been completely reworked. It comes with a new design as well as an all new feature set that provides all information you need before and while you shop.

• Right at the beginning the app provides daily updated special offers, top deals as well as events.
• You can browse the store listing, filter by floor and type of store and you can search for your favorite store.
• The magazine as well as the center plan are available offline so that you have it handy at any time.

The app is available for iOS and Android smartphones and tablets and you can download it here:

Location based mobile apps: CeBIT 2017

At CeBIT in Hannover (March 20 to 24) hall 11 stand B40/9, we present our new Attractions Editor.

The Attractions Editor ist the new feature of our Apmato-System. It provides an easy way to create location based apps for indoor and outdoor usage. Thus making it extremely easy to create audio guides, city guides and other types of touristic apps.

Our second breaking attraction this week is the skill Ene Mene for the amazon speech assistant alexa which has just been published. With the Ene Mene skill alexa is able to recites any poem from the poem library known from the Ene Mene app that we offer for iOS, android, blackberry and the apple watch. Detlef Rupp, the developer of this interactive dialog system, is currently at the booth in Hannover to answer your questions. Just ask Ene Mene for a poem and see for yourself.

Download Ene Mene skill at amazon ⇢

You will find us in hall 11 stand B40/9. Show CeBIT hall map ⇢

Meet us at Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona

At Mobile World Congress 2017, that takes place from 27th of February until 3rd of March 2017, we showcase our new Attractions editor.

This add-on to the Apmato system allows for easy editing of points of interest to create apps that feature location based content.

We are in hall 7 Stand 7.L51 among other Berliners.

Press release, date February 21st, 2017.

The other highlight at MWC 2017 is our app Berlin MWC 2017. This app features background information on all 18 companies from the region and the mobile scene in Berlin that showcase their products and solutions on 2017 Berlin-Brandenburg booth at MWC. Participating companies can be contacted directly from the app and visitors have it easy to find the Berlin Brandenburg booth at the MWC 2017.

The app was created and published with apmato within 2 days.

Berlin MWC 2017 app is available for iOS and Android and you can download it here:

Driving school app

Driving school allroad from Friedrichshagen located near Berlin created a mobile app with Apmato which has just been launched. The app is designed for learners, but also fans and everybody who's interested in the driving school will find it useful. Learners can call their instructor from within the app, get up-to-date information, find special courses and more. The app currently is in german language.

The app is for iOS and Android and you can download it here:

Annettes App

All up-to-date information of Annette Sawade, member of german parliament, is nicely brought together in this very convenient apmato app. You have all her contact data, her facebook page and her timetable in one place.

A highlight of course is the facebook page that runs inside the app. There is no switching to other apps, e.g. facebook, from within Annettes App. The result is a fast and handy app.

The app is for iOS and Android and you can download it here:

Apmato for the first time at CeBIT

For the CeBIT 2016 event we put our main focus on what Apmato can do for B2B. So we placed some beacons on our stand that can be traced out completely offline by an Apmato-App. Pass by and check it out!

Just want to try our Popcorn? You will find us in hall 11 at stand D33(3) right at the south entrance. CeBIT 2016 takes place from Monday 14th to Friday 18th of March 2016 in Hannover, Germany. You can find the ground map here.

Don't have a ticket jet? Like us on Facebook, follow our Twitter stream and / or send us your app idea. In return we will send you a free ticket for this year's CeBIT. See you there, the Apmato team!

Meet us this week in Tokyo, at Japan IT week autumn

This week we are in Japan to present Apmato for the first time to the asian-pacific audience. Japan IT week autumn takes place October 28-30, 2015 in Makuhari Messe, Tokyo. You can find us at booth 16-43.

Please kindly send an email to info@apmato.com to arrange a meeting.

See also: Japan IT week web site.⇢, Host's press release ⇢.

Kreuzberg Mini Guide in German

Since last week there is a new, bilingual — English-German — version of our Kreuzberg Mini Guide in the AppStores. When you start the app, the first thing you do, is to choose the preferred language. Later on the language switch is located in the info-screen.

The second great new feature we added to this version of Kreuzberg Mini Guide is the possibility for you to send us locations you'd like to be covered in the app. We added a simple form at the end of each location listing. Type name, address and a short description of the place and off it goes. We are thrilled to receive your messages.

Kreuzberg Mini Guide is a small companion for your Berlin-Kreuzberg tour. It covers places in the former SW61 (sw = south-west) part of Kreuzberg. You mainly find tips from the Apmato-team. Where do we go for lunch, which museums are located around our place to work, whats interesting to see around Bergmann­straße. Marie and Steffen build the first version of Kreuzberg Mini Guide. Since then we continuously update the content through our Apmato Content-Server or, like in this major update, upload a complete new version to the stores.

You can find links to the stores, a description as well as images of the app here.

It also runs with Firefox

Yes, it does. Our last iteration brought Firefox support for ApmatoCreate. Firefox is now the third browser—apart from Chrome and Safari— that you can use with ApmatoCreate to build your apps. All existing restrictions have been removed.

When looking at the current worldwide statistics on browser usage, you see Chrome on top, then comes Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. In Germany, where most of our users are located, most people use Firefox (about 30%), next are Chrome and Safari with 25% and 17%. A good reason for us, to enable Firefox.

Web site relaunch

You may have noticed it already, we launched a complete new web site. Everything is new designed and looks modern.

Along with a new look we added responsiveness. From Smartphones over tablets up to desctop-pcs the contents stays readable. With small devices the elements on the screen move below each other. On the top left of the screen you will find the mobile menu icon.

News from WWDC 2015 - Deep App Linking

At Apple's yearly developer conference, WWDC, that startet yesterday, the keynote unveiled great news for app owners.

The new feature is called deep app linking. It provides the possibility to search for content inside apps. Deep links can point to specific content deep in the structure of an app.

When you launch an app from within the search results it opens up with that screen which is related to the search phrase.

The best thing about it is, Apmato already supports app deep linking.

See our latest blog post about this topic. ⇢

Apmato thinks lokal

Themed taste creativity and diversity of local culture and businesses, we set up our tent this week's Friday 29th and Saturday, 30th of Mai 2015 at the middle ale of the Marheineke Markthalle in Berlin-Kreuzberg. We show our mobile apps and how we can help you to promote your projects and businesses online.

Opt in on our Kreuzberg Mini Guide app and secure your spot and see how mobile apps are build nowadays.

View the PDF of the official flyer (in German) ⇢

Apmato at AppsWorld 2015

This week Wednesday 22 and Thurday 23 of April 2015 we present Apmato at AppsWorld, City Cube Berlin, Stand 334. Come around and get inspired. We are proud to be able to show to you our brand new features:

• When you add hot news or new content to your app you can now send these changes directly to the devices of all those who loaded your app. With the push of a button all your users have the news on their phones.
• Send push messages, to get attention for your app and alert your users in the moment your app has new content.

View Press release (in German) ⇢

Marketing Practices

This Apmato app contains 180 pages full of marketing PR and communication information for the German speaking crafting sector. Very useful, very comprehensive and really understandable presented. Read more ⇢

Media uploader completely reworked

Since recently the apmato image overview, image upload as well as our icon library have a new look and quite a number of remarkable new features. We added drag&drop for image upload, in the preview each image shows it’s ratio, it’s name as well as it’s pixels. In the icon library you can change the background color to get an idea how the icon will look like on the actual background of the app. Check it out here ⇢

Apmato at WUD

Is the funding program Design Transfer Bonus that the Berlin senat has issued and has prolonged several times worth it for designers? Clemens Grossmann talked about how we made use the program during this year’s World Usability Day in Berlin’s Urania. How we made demand of the program twice in two years, how the application process worked and of course the audience got an insight on how easy it is to build mobile apps with our best tool, Apmato. worldusabilityday.org ⇢

New app for art exhibition

The app Mundfrauen features an exhibition with works of Aldona Gustas at Mühlenhaupt museum in Berlin-Kreuzberg in Mai and Juni 2014. The app is 100% made with apmato. Read more ⇢

See us at WWDC 2014

We got hold of two tickets for this years Apple developer conference in San Francisco. We will be there the whole week from June 2 to June 8 2014. Are you around as well? Then send us an email so that we can meet.

App for German painter and decorator

Painter and decorator Jochen Westermann from Mühlen in Westfalen, Germany designed an app for his very proven paining and decoration services. It is now on the app stores. Read more ⇢.

Meet us at MWC 2014

We’re going to be at the Mobile World Congress next week, from Monday to Wednesday (24.-26. Febr. 2014). So please give us a call or send us an e-mail so that we can say hi and talk about why mobile apps are important for your business.

Kreuzberg Mini Guide ready for Android

Now you can download the Kreuzberg Mini Guide app for your Android devices (2.3+). Discover Berlin Kreuzberg with our Kreuzberg Mini Guide. Easily find the best restaurants, the most interesting stores, and places that are part of Kreuzberg’s culture! Read more ⇢

A German version of our web site is now online.

All German speakers and readers now have access to our news about app editing in our mother tongue. The language switch can be found in the very right of the menu bar.