Calling all Bay Area developers! Amazon Appstore is a sponsor of the 2014 PhoneGap Day in San Francisco. Learn about how to publish PhoneGap apps to the Amazon Appstore and how to use Amazon WebView to run your apps seamlessly on Amazon devices. Meet with Appstore representatives and get your questions answered onsite.

Click here to register for PhoneGap Day. The conference is almost sold out.

Hours and Location

The Amazon Appstore will be at PhoneGap Day at Dogpatch Studios at 991 Tennessee Street in San Francisco on October on October 24^th.

Publishing PhoneGap Apps to the Amazon Appstore

Friday October 24^th | Jesse Freeman, Developer Evangelist, Amazon Appstore | 10:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.

Come join Jesse Freeman, developer evangelist at Amazon, to learn about publishing PhoneGap apps to the Amazon Appstore and how to achieve better performance on Fire OS devices by targeting the Amazon WebView. He’ll cover what the Amazon Appstore is, publishing PhoneGap apps as well as the special optimizations and improvements Amazon has made to make PhoneGap apps run just like native.

Amazon Appstore will also participate in the sold out pre-conference workshop.

Multi-Device HTML5 Hybrid Web Apps with Amazon WebView

Thursday October 23^rd | Russell Beattie, Developer Evangelist, Amazon Appstore | 10:00 a.m.-11:35 a.m.| 3^rd Floor

Learn how to develop web apps that run seamlessly on multiple Amazon Fire Devices (Tablet and Phone) using the advanced HTML5 capabilities and functionality of the Amazon WebView API. In this talk we’ll build a single Apache Cordova (PhoneGap) hybrid web app for Fire OS that dynamically adapts to each platform, taking advantage of platform-specific features such as the head tracking APIs on the Fire Phone. We’ll also take a look at custom Cordova plugins that can expand the functionality of our web app to access native capabilities such as device detection, or to use services such as Amazon’s device messaging (ADM).

Fire, Amazon’s first smartphone, is now available at AT&T stores throughout the US and online at www.att.com/firephone or www.amazon.com/firephone.   

Fire is the only smartphone with Dynamic Perspective and Firefly. Dynamic Perspective is an entirely new sensor system that responds to the way a customer holds, views and moves the phone. The Dynamic Perspective SDK gives developers access to algorithms that identify the X, Y and Z coordinates of the head, enabling a whole new class of apps and games. Firefly quickly recognizes things in the real world—web and email addresses, phone numbers, QR and bar codes, movies, music, and millions of products, and lets the user take action in seconds—all with the simple press of the Firefly button. With the Firefly SDK, developers can extend the use of the Firefly button to enable new actions their users can take based on what they identify. 

If you’re ready to get your app on Fire phone, you can test your app today. For more information on the Fire phone SDKs, click here.

Here is a quick recap of all of the Fire phone posts on the Amazon Apps & Services Blog.

The Amazon Appstore developer team will be at Casual Connect San Francisco on July 21^st with developer pre-day of sessions from 10 am through 3 pm at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square.  No need to be a Casual Connect badge holder, all developers are invited to join us free of charge for a day of sessions to help you learn how to build, optimize and monetize your apps and games for Fire devices.

The day is designed to take you from an overview of our latest devices including Fire phone and Fire TV, cover technical details about the devices, while sharing how other developers are using the innovation of Fire TV and Fire phone to reach more customers.

We’ll also be covering the following topics:

• Details on the SDKs and examples of how other developers are using these features.
• The AWS services that will help you evolve your game to take advantage of cloud patterns such as in-game asset download, saving games to the cloud, online gameplay / stats, and game analytics.
• Discussions on services that will help you monetize and engage more customers.

Finally, we’ll be covering some of the benefits available to Amazon Appstore developers.  The Amazon Mobile Ad Network is offering a new incentive. Please come visit us at exhibit #421 to learn about the Amazon Mobile Ad Network and earn a $50 Amazon.com gift card** by integrating the Amazon Mobile Ads API into your qualified app* during Casual Connect.

We’ll have devices for you to explore and test your apps– be one of the first developers to play with Fire!

Click here to register or click here to find out more information about Casual Connect San Francisco.  We look forward to seeing you there.

*Existing apps already sending ad requests do not qualify. Apps that integrate the Amazon Mobile Ads API for the first time are eligible for the offer.

**One Amazon.com Gift Card per participant while supplies last. Amazon.com Gift Cards ("GCs") may be used only to purchase eligible goods on Amazon.com or certain of its affiliated websites. GCs cannot be redeemed for purchases of gift cards. Except as required by law, GCs cannot be reloaded, resold, transferred for value, redeemed for cash, or applied to any other account. For complete GC terms and conditions, see www.amazon.com/gc-legal. No expiration or service fees. Amazon may modify or cancel this offer at any time.