Front-End Web & Mobile
Announcing: React Native Starter Project with One-Click AWS Deployment and Serverless Infrastructure
Update (February 18, 2019): This article was originally posted on September 19, 2017. At that time, AWS Mobile Hub was used to cloud-enable this React Native Starter project. Going forward, we recommend that developers use AWS Amplify to cloud enable your React Native, iOS, Android, and web application projects. That said, the solution below may […]
Custom Artifacts on AWS Device Farm
This post was written by Nikhil Dabhade, Cloud Solutions Engineer, AWS Device Farm A good test report is essential to proper analysis of mobile app testing. It is not only the summary of test results, but also artifacts like screenshots, videos, crash reports, logs, and app-generated files. A well formed test report provides useful insights, […]
Push Notifications with Ionic and Amazon Pinpoint
Engaging your customers through communication channels such as push notifications is important for mobile app success. AWS services such as AWS Mobile Hub and Amazon Pinpoint enable you to do this in a scalable and cost effective manner. When using these services with development tooling like Ionic Framework you can rapidly develop modern applications to […]
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 […]
Easy Sign-in and Sign-up UI with the AWS Mobile SDK for Android
Recently, we released v2.6.0 of the AWS Mobile SDK for Android and AWS Mobile SDK for iOS. It includes many improvements. This post focuses on two of these. First, you can integrate a JSON file with the configuration details of your mobile backend. The easiest way to generate this file is with AWS Mobile Hub. […]
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 The solution below may be out of date and incomplete.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 […]
Building fine-grained authorization using Amazon Cognito User Pools groups
This post was authored by Leo Drakopoulos, AWS Solutions Architect. User authentication and authorization can be challenging when building web and mobile apps. The challenges include handling user data and passwords, token-based authentication, managing fine-grained permissions, scalability, federation, and more. In this post, we show how to integrate authentication and authorization into an Angular web […]
The Fastest Way to Analytics for Your iOS App
You just got a new customer for your mobile app. Congratulations! But be careful not to celebrate too early. Did you know that nearly 25% of customers never revisit an app after initial use? After a full month, the fall-off is nearly total. What happened? Analytics are no longer an option for mobile developers—they’re a […]
Take Your Chatbot Mobile!
With Amazon Lex, any developer can quickly and easily create a chatbot. With AWS Mobile Hub, the same developer can just as easily integrate the bot into a mobile app. Want to take your bot mobile? Use the Mobile Hub conversational bots feature to create your own mobile bot or import an existing bot into […]
Integrate the AWS SDK for JavaScript into a React App
In our last blog post, I showed how to create a React app using the create-react-app tool provided by Facebook, and then deploy the app to a content delivery network driven by AWS Mobile Hub, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudFront. This enables you to produce dynamic single page applications (SPAs) and serve them to a […]