Designing for the 10-foot experience does require that developers understand the capabilities (and limitations) of TV hardware, and to reconsider how they present information and handle user input. There are a few key design principles that apply.

High-level programming languages usually insulate us from the details, but it pays to understand what’s happening under the covers, because knowing how the hardware works helps us to write better code.

As you prepare to create your first streaming media app for Fire TV, you must decide whether you will code it from scratch, build on top of a third-party development framework, or use the purpose-built tools provided by Amazon.

In this webinar, developer evangelist Peter Heinrich will talk about competitive mobile gaming and walk you through the steps to integrate the GameOn APIs.

This guide is designed to help you navigate the available resources for developing high-quality media streaming apps on Amazon Fire TV.

I talk to loads of developers just itching to try their hand at games, and the question of math comes up a lot. To begin our quest for math literacy in pursuit of superior game creation, let's bounce a ball!

Join us on December 14, 2017 for a webinar on integrating in-app purchasing (IAP) and selling digital items from within your app or game. We’ll cover how to set up your item catalog on Amazon, then show how you can connect to it from within your app. 

Now available to customers in more than 100 countries and territories, the Fire TV Stick Basic Edition brings media streaming and the Amazon Fire TV experience to a global audience, including Canada, France, Italy, and Spain—and will be coming soon to Brazil and Mexico.

The newest Amazon Fire TV is the first Fire TV to support 4K Ultra HD and High Dynamic Range (HDR) and packs a lot of punch into its portable form factor design.

Today Amazon announced the latest generation of our largest tablet, the all-new Fire HD 10. It’s a device that really lets your app or game shine, sporting faster performance, more storage, longer battery life, and a brilliant 10.1” display.

Strategy games have seen healthy growth in 2017, and account for a disproportionately large share of revenue given its modest download volume.

At the end of June, we presented the webinar Bring Mobile Apps and Games to the Living Room’s 10-foot Experience, where we shared tips on how to optimize your mobile apps and games for Amazon Fire TV. The replay is now availabe for you to watch.

Join me on Friday, June 30, at 7:00 AM or 1:00 PM PST to learn how to transition your mobile apps and games to the living room experience.

Top games need a passionate fan base to drive user acquisition, engagement, and alternative streams of revenue that occur. In this webinar, I will show you how top games are already driving more engagement and revenue with their fan bases, and show you how to do it with your own app.

You heard how effective push notifications could be, especially compared to email campaigns, so you dived in with both feet. You came up with some content ideas for tactical messaging, adjusted delivery timing to account for past user behavior, and even factored in target device type. Now, thanks to your careful planning and strategic use of push, your users are re-engaging with your app more than ever. Congratulations!

Now what?