Front-End Web & Mobile

Geo Library for Amazon DynamoDB – Part 3: Creating Amazon DynamoDB Tables

In a previous post, I talked about how to instantiate and customize GeoDataManager using GeoDataManagerConfiguration. In this post, I’m going to show you how to create an Amazon DynamoDB table for use by Geo Library. Creating an Amazon DynamoDB Table Geo Library for Amazon DynamoDB provides a utility class, com.amazonaws.geo.util.GeoTableUtil, that makes creating a table […]

Geo Library for Amazon DynamoDB – Part 2: GeoDataManagerConfiguration

In order to use Geo Library for Amazon DynamoDB, you need to go through some setup steps. GeoDataManagerConfiguration represents the mandatory and optional configurations, and in this blog post, I’ll show you how to use GeoDataManagerConfiguration to customize the behavior of Geo Library. Instantiating GeoDataManager GeoDataManager is the main class you interact with when using […]

Geo Library for Amazon DynamoDB – Part 1: Table Structure

Geo Library for Amazon DynamoDB supports geospatial indexing on Amazon DynamoDB datasets. The library takes care of managing Geohash indexes. You can use these indexes for fast and efficient execution of location-based queries over DynamoDB items representing points of interest (latitude/longitude pairs). Some features of this library are: Life Cycle Operations: Create, retrieve, update, and […]

Amazon DynamoDB on Mobile – Part 4: Local Secondary Indexes

Version 2 of the AWS Mobile SDK This article and sample apply to Version 1 of the AWS Mobile SDK. If you are building new apps, we recommend you use Version 2. For details, please visit the AWS Mobile SDK page. This content is being maintained for historical reference. In our previous posts (Part 1, […]

Clock Skew Fix

Version 2 of the AWS Mobile SDK This article and sample apply to Version 1 of the AWS Mobile SDK. If you are building new apps, we recommend you use Version 2. For details, please visit the AWS Mobile SDK page. This content is being maintained for historical reference. Clock Skew Adjustment Previously, we showed […]

New AWS Mobile SDKs Release 1.6.1

We have just released a new version of the AWS Mobile SDKs. The individual SDKs for version 1.6.1 can be downloaded from the following pages: AWS SDK for iOS AWS SDK for Android This release adds support for Amazon Simple Notification Service’s new Mobile Push APIs and resolves a number of issues reported by customers. […]

Amazon DynamoDB on Mobile – Part 3: Writing Data

Version 2 of the AWS Mobile SDK This article and sample apply to Version 1 of the AWS Mobile SDK. If you are building new apps, we recommend you use Version 2. For details, please visit the AWS Mobile SDK page. This content is being maintained for historical reference. In our previous posts (Part 1, […]

Amazon DynamoDB on Mobile – Part 1: Loading Data

Version 2 of the AWS Mobile SDK This article and sample apply to Version 1 of the AWS Mobile SDK. If you are building new apps, we recommend you use Version 2. For details, please visit the AWS Mobile SDK page. This content is being maintained for historical reference. Amazon DynamoDB is one of the […]

Adding Web Identity Federation with Facebook to Android Projects

Last month we announced web identity federation, which lets developers utilize services from Facebook, Google, and Amazon to retrieve temporary AWS credentials. This tutorial will show you how to add web identity federation with Facebook to an existing Android project that uses an AWS service. Creating a Facebook App ID Sign up for the Facebook […]