Front-End Web & Mobile

Authentication and authorization play a key role in mobile development. The AWS Amplify team has been busy improving on the previous simplified development changes for iOS and Android that introduced user state tracking, token management, and offline enhancements. Based on your feedback, we’ve added new features and have made improvements to the way you add […]

Written by Robert Zhu, AWS Principal Technical Evangelist September 14, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. We are excited to announce that AWS is now part of the GraphQL Foundation, and we can’t wait to help the Foundation build an open and vibrant GraphQL community. Let me explain […]

*This article was written by Nikhil Swaminathan & Dan Green from the AWS Amplify Console team. The Amplify Console now supports instant cache invalidation, which enables you to deploy updates to your single page or static app instantly—without giving up the performance benefits of content delivery network (CDN) caching. This means that you no longer […]

The Amplify Framework is an open source project for building cloud-enabled applications. Today, we are happy to announce the release of new features in the Amplify Framework. Multiple Environment Support The Amplify CLI now supports multiple development environments. This addition enables you and your team to create and test out features in a sandboxed environment that’s completely separate from your […]

In this blog post, we’re going to dive into how to use  AWS Device Farm to run and test a sample mobile app using Node.js and Appium. Device Farm is an application testing service that lets you test and interact with applications on many real devices at once. You can also reproduce issues on a […]

Having to remember passwords can be a pain, especially for passwords that you don’t use often. Like most people, you too are probably familiar with having to click the “forgot password” link or button on websites and apps. Many people are tempted to use bad practices such as using short passwords, using easily guessable passwords, […]

This post has been deprecated. Instead, please see the new Amplify Android Getting Started tutorial to learn how to build Android mobile applications using AWS Amplify. This is part 2 of a two-part series of walkthroughs on how to build an AWS cloud-enabled Android mobile app with the AWS Amplify toolchain. In this post, we […]

In November 2017, we launched AWS Amplify, initially an open-source JavaScript library that makes it easier to develop cloud-connected mobile and web apps—and AWS AppSync, for creating a real-time and offline-capable data-layer API for your mobile and web apps. In the last 12 months, we’ve introduced significant additional capabilities for both AWS Amplify and AWS […]

AWS AppSync, a Serverless GraphQL backend for providing data to mobile and web applications, has been steadily releasing features over the past year since launching at re:Invent 2017. Today, we’re happy to release several new service and client features for AWS AppSync that can greatly enhance the way you build client applications and provide data […]

This post has been deprecated. Instead, please see the new Amplify Android Getting Started tutorial to learn how to build Android mobile applications using AWS Amplify. This walkthrough is part 1 of a two-part series on how to build an AWS cloud-enabled Android mobile app with the AWS Amplify toolchain. Suppose that you want to […]