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Prepare App Testers

With Live App Testing (LAT), app testers can download your test app on their devices and perform user tests.

Testers receive notifications to perform app testing through an email invitation and a push notification to their device. The following sections explain how your app testers can enable notifications to test your app, how they can download the app, and how they can install the app.

Tester workflow

The following image shows an overview of the tester workflow for LAT.

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  1. Tester enables tester notifications with these steps.
    1. Go to Your Account > Communication and content > Communication preferences.
    2. Go to Email Preferences section and expand Promotional Emails.
    3. Select Amazon Appstore in this list of promotional emails and click Update to save changes.
  2. Developer publishes live app test.
  3. Tester can choose either of the following flows.
    1. Accept email invitation on computer.
      Note: Do not open email on a device. It won't allow you to download the app.
    2. Open Appstore on device and refresh the My Apps screen.
    3. Download the LAT app.

    or

    1. Click notification on device.
    2. Download the LAT app.

Enable tester notifications for LAT

For your testers to receive email or push notifications to test your apps, they need to enable promotional emails from the Amazon Appstore. Make sure each tester has enabled email notifications. To be eligible for push notifications, testers need to use the same email that is registered to the devices they will use for testing. The following steps show how a tester can enable notifications for LAT.

To enable notifications for LAT

  1. Sign in to your Amazon.com account.
  2. Go to Your Account > Communication and content > Communication preferences.
  3. Go to the Email Preferences section, and then expand Promotional Emails.
  4. In the list of promotional emails, make sure Amazon Appstore is selected.
  5. To save your changes, select Update.

Opt in a tester for LAT emails

When a tester first receives their email invitation, they have an option to unsubscribe from LAT communications. A tester who unsubscribes doesn't receive LAT invites through emails or push notifications. If after unsubscribing, a tester decides they would like to continue receiving LAT invitations, you can share the opt-in link with them. The opt-in link takes them to a web page where they can resubscribe to LAT emails.

To get the opt-in link to resubscribe a tester to LAT emails

  1. Go to the Developer Console Dashboard, sign in to your account, select Apps & Services > My Apps, and then select your app.
  2. Under Actions, select the menu icon, and then choose Live App Testing.
  3. Go to the Tester Management screen, select View all testers, and then click Copy opt-in link.
All testers screen. Warning: Some testers may have opted out of receiving invites. If they wish to receive future invites, share the opt-in link with them. Copy opt-in link
Opt-in link

Test an app from an email invitation

When you add testers to a live app test, your testers receive an email invitation that contains a link to your app's test page with instructions on how to download and install your app on Fire and Android devices. Have your testers complete the following steps to download your app to begin testing.

To test your app from an email notification

  1. In the LAT invitation email, click the link for the marketplace that you will test, as shown in the following image.

    To get started first pick your marketplace by selecting the appropriate link in the email
    LAT invitation email

    The link opens the Amazon Appstore retail page for the app in the specified marketplace.

    On the page, if you have signed in to the Amazon Appstore on a supported device, you will see a Get App button with a list of compatible devices.

    The app retail page with a Get App button
    App retail page

    If you haven't signed in to Amazon Appstore on a device yet, or if a particular device is not available in your current marketplace, that device will not appear. If none of the devices that your app targets are available in a given marketplace, the Get App button is replaced with a Continue button on the app's retail page:

    Continue button on the app retail page
    Device not available

  2. Click Get App.

    You're provided with instructions on how to install the app. You can test on as many devices as you have associated with your Amazon account that your app targets.

Test an app from a push notification

In addition to the email notification, testers can receive a push notification on their Fire tablets, Fire TVs, and Android devices. Testers are eligible to receive push notifications for LAT if the device is registered to the account used for LAT test email notifications.

When you receive a push notification, tap or select the notification on the device. Testers are directed to the app's test page on the Amazon Appstore, where they can download the app and perform user tests.

Last updated: Mar 12, 2025