Archive for October, 2011

Welcome to the new Apps42 website

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Welcome to the new Apps42 website

Today we launched a new website for Apps42. Our earlier website is still available at http://apps42.com/congressvotes and can also be reached from the Congress Votes blog post on this site. Why the new site? It was time. Our original site was built to be an application specific website when we first began building the Apps42 company. At the time, it was the only app we built so it made sense to set up a site to market ...

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Elements of a Viral Launch Page

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Elements of a Viral Launch Page

Like a lot of things on the Smashing Magazines website, I found these two articles to be very interesting. If you are beginning a new venture, application, or website, you should take a look at these. While the content is more specifically targeted to websites and not mobile applications, it’s clear that when you are launching a new application you are likely going to need a website at the same time. At a minimum, the website will work as a ...

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CongressVotes

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CongressVotes

Built as part of Apps42′s Government Transparency Series. CongressVotes tracks congressional activity and voting records for the 112th Congress.  Read more about our app on the CongressVotes Website.

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TuneHopper

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TuneHopper

A distributed team-built project. Our contribution was to build the in-app purchase functions and to build the back-end server synchronization to keep track of purchases. We set up the app store and managed the integration into the remainder of the code using a distributed development model. Not satisfied with only building our share of the code, Apps42 advised the entire team on iOS and the intricacies of the Apple app-verse.

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ColorPixi

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ColorPixi

ColorPixi was hand crafted by a professional artist and built by Apps42. Pick a color and ColorPixi will show you the complementary and harmonious colors for a complete palette. Our team designed, developed, launched and provides support for ColorPixi and its website.

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Beginnings

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Beginnings

In 2009, I made the decision to create a world-class mobile apps company. After all, I had spent 30 years in software development, professional services, consulting, and senior management.  I saw mobile as the future of computing and resolved to build a company that focused on mobile application design and development.

I began with the basics – learning the different frameworks, building a team, and eventually building a portfolio of applications. As I progressed, so did the underlying capabilities of the ...

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Apps42

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Apps42 is a small but powerful company with a reach across the universe that is unparallelled in modern times.  With our superior talent and your app imagination we combine our talents to create new and useful applications that are fast, mobile and often mind blowing in their user experience.

With Apps42, anything is possible…

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CV 111

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CV 111

CongressVotes 111 focuses on historical data from the past Congress.  This free version of the CongressVotes app is also different internally utilizing SQLite instead of Apple Core Data. This is the app that launched Apps42. And the rest is history …

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