Front-End Web & Mobile
Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance
New AWS Mobile Hub feature: Add an existing user pool to your Mobile Hub project
Using AWS Mobile Hub is a great way for you to get started with a mobile backend project because it abstracts away the complexity of configuring a new AWS service. It does this by defining a set of IAM policies for how your apps authenticated and unauthenticated users interact with the AWS service. Up until […]
AWS Amplify adds support for custom attributes in Amazon Cognito user pools
An Amazon Cognito user pool is a user directory for your web, mobile, or other applications. In addition to the normal things you’d expect to store in an Amazon Cognito user pool (like a user name, email address, or phone number), you can also configure the user pool to hold any other information that you […]
Building a serverless real-time chat application with AWS AppSync
June 27, 2024: This blog post covers Amplify Gen 1. For new Amplify apps, we recommend using Amplify Gen 2. You can learn more about Gen 2 in our launch blog post. Update: We recommend checking the new revamped chat app solution with more features, modern client libraries, and simplified implementation. Today, most digital media […]
Integrating Amazon Cognito with the Android AccountManager API
This is the fourth part in a six-part series on synchronizing data within an Android mobile app to the AWS Cloud. Check out the full series: An Introduction to the Sync Framework for Android Building a ContentProvider for Android Using a ContentProvider in Android Mobile Apps Integrating Amazon Cognito with the Android AccountManager API (this article) […]
An Introduction to the Sync Framework for Android
This is the first part in a six-part series on synchronizing data within an Android mobile app to the AWS Cloud. Check out the full series: An Introduction to the Sync Framework for Android (this article) Building a ContentProvider for Android Using a ContentProvider in Android Mobile Apps Integrating Amazon Cognito with the Android AccountManager API […]
Migrating Users to Amazon Cognito User Pools
November 2, 2023: An update to this post was published on the AWS Security Blog. Please see this post for the most up-to-date info. Many customers ask about the best way to migrate their existing users in to Amazon Cognito User Pools. In this blog post, we describe the options and provide step-by-step instructions on […]
User Sign-in and Sign-up for Ionic Mobile Apps with Amazon Cognito
Going forward, we recommend that developers use AWS Amplify to cloud enable your Flutter, React Native, iOS, Android, and web projects. The solution below may be out of date and incomplete. We are working on a new modern solution utilizing the Amplify Framework. This post was written by Brice Pelle, AWS Technical Account Manager. In this […]