Author: Mudeem Siddiqui

AWS Mobile SDK for Unity has been in Developer Preview since December (see my blog post, Announcing AWS Mobile SDK for Unity Developer Preview to learn more). In February, we added support for Amazon Mobile Analytics (see Announcing Amazon Mobile Analytics in the AWS Mobile SDK for Unity). We have been actively working on incorporating […]

In February, we announced a 40% reduction in the DEX method count for the AWS Mobile SDK for AndroidTM. Since then, we have continued to optimize the SDK further so you can avoid hitting the maximum limit of 65K DEX methods imposed by Android. On 4/9/2015, we released version 2.2.0 that achieves another 40% reduction (a ~70% […]

AWS Mobile SDKs for iOS and Android now supports AWS Lambda that make it easy to invoke Lambda functions. AWS Lambda is a compute service that allows you to run code in response to events. Starting today, you can now create AWS Lambda functions that respond to events from your application synchronously (in real time) […]

Update: April 30, 2018: We’ve discontinued Amazon Mobile Analytics. Amazon Pinpoint now provides the analytics features that Amazon Mobile Analytics previously offered. If you’re new to Mobile Analytics, you can integrate the mobile analytics features of Amazon Pinpoint into your app. If you currently use Amazon Mobile Analytics, you can migrate to Amazon Pinpoint. Last […]

The maximum limit of 65K on DEX method count imposed by Android remains to be a significant challenge for Mobile App Developers. While there are workarounds like ProGuard and MultiDex’ing, these are cumbersome and add additional overhead. We often see developers making trade-offs with regards to the functionality in their apps due to the DEX […]

We are happy to announce the availability of the AWS Mobile SDK for Unity in Developer Preview. Now you can build cross-platform games in Unity that use AWS services for identity and user data management (Amazon Cognito), cloud storage (Amazon S3), and a fully-managed NoSQL database (Amazon DynamoDB).  The AWS Mobile SDK for Unity is […]

Today’s post comes from Michael Garcia, Solutions Architect for AWS. Based in Paris, he helps our customers and partners gain proficiency with AWS services and solutions. ——————————————————————————————————— Recently, we published articles on how to use Amazon Cognito in different contexts such as Amazon Cognito Credentials providers for mobiles or Amazon Cognito for synchronizing data. If […]

If you are a Maven user, adding the AWS Mobile SDK for Android in your Android project is now as simple as adding few lines to your pom.xml. You no longer need to download the entire AWS Mobile SDK for Android zip file and include the JAR files in your project manually. You can specify […]

We are making the AWS Mobile SDK for Xamarin available as a beta for you to evaluate and provide us feedback. Now you can use Xamarin to build cross platform apps that use AWS services for identity management (Amazon Cognito), cloud storage (Amazon S3), a fully-managed NoSQL database (Amazon DynamoDB), and push notifications (Amazon SNS […]

If you’re going to Xamarin Evolve 2014, consider attending a session presented by Tara Walker, an Amazon Web Services Technical Evangelist. Her session shows you how to build great mobile apps that leverage AWS Mobile services to provide identity management and data sync (Amazon Cognito), push notifications (Amazon SNS Mobile Push), cloud storage (Amazon S3), and a fully-managed NoSQL database (Amazon […]