Front-End Web & Mobile

Starting today, you can view details about how your Android app performs on real devices in the AWS Cloud without writing your own test scripts. AWS Device Farm’s new Built-in: Explorer test deploys an app explorer that crawls your application, analyzes each view it encounters, and interacts with each view’s controls as an end user […]

The release of iOS 9 includes changes that could impact how your apps interact with some AWS services. If you compile your apps with Apple’s iOS 9 SDK (or Xcode 7), Apple’s new App Transport Security (ATS) feature may affect your apps’ ability to connect to certain AWS service endpoints. In order to ensure your […]

As a result of recent updates to the AWS Mobile SDK for iOS, please refer to the AWS Mobile SDK for iOS Developer Guide for the latest guidance on how to upload and download files from Amazon S3 on iOS.  Refer to the iOS Sample Repository for code samples. Amazon S3 Transfer Manager for iOS […]

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. The […]

Researchers recently revealed that mobile app developers use weak security and authentication methods in their apps. This puts user data at risk. Embedding credentials in a mobile application is unsafe, but what’s the alternative and best practice? We offer Amazon Cognito to mobile app developers as the recommended alternative. Amazon Cognito will provide temporary, limited-privilege […]

With the announcement of the S3 Transfer Utility, we deprecated the S3 Transfer Manager. This post is a guide to help developers currently using the Transfer Manager migrate to the new Transfer Utility. The guide is split into sections based on functionality, and shows how Transfer Manager code will change to work with the Transfer […]

Last year, as part of the Version 2 release of the AWS Mobile SDK for Android, we introduced the ability to pause and resume transfers. Since then, we have received helpful feedback from the community, and learned more about the needs of mobile developers like you. Today we are pleased to announce the introduction of […]

We have made a few significant changes in this version of the SDK. In this post, I am going to highlight those changes and show how you can update your code to incorporate them. No More Third-Party Frameworks The AWS Mobile SDK for iOS 2.2.0 no longer includes third-party frameworks. This change simplifies the SDK […]

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. Using […]

This blog post was contributed by Steve Johnson, Senior Solutions Architect Today we’re going to talk about cheating in mobile games. Specifically, we’ll talk about how to prevent an exploit using Amazon Cognito and AWS Lambda. An exploit is an unplanned use case – something the player does that is unexpected or that has an […]