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.

In our third GameMaker basics post, we are going to talk about adding some juice to your character movements and animations. This will help you squeeze some more life and feeling out of your games, and improve the quality of your games overall.

Source Control is an essential part of game development and one that every developer should use. In this 2 part blog series, I will show you everything you need to work with Source Control, specifically in GameMaker Studio 2 (GMS2).

We are excited to launch the redesign of the Amazon Developer Portal, which improves the experience for developers as you engage with various resources on our website.

Check your doorsteps, the all-new Amazon Fire TV is now shipping! The all-new Amazon Fire TV provides your app with the power it needs to perform its best and truly engage your customers.

Welcome to the second entry in our GameMaker Basics series. If you are following along from the previous entry, great! We will be picking up right where we left off. Today we are going to set up a simple state machine.

Today we’re excited to announce the all-new standalone Amazon Appstore mobile app for Android. The new mobile app is redesigned from the ground up, allowing customers to enjoy the same apps and games that they engage with on Fire TV and Fire tablets on their mobile phones.

Have you been too busy this fall to keep up with us at the Amazon Appstore? We've been busy too, from discussing the basics of developing with GameMaker with guest blogger Nathan Ranney to selecting games to feature on our favorite apps of the week. Here's what you missed.

In this four part series, guest blogger, Nathan Ranney, covers the basics of developing with GameMaker. This post explores setting up and animating sprites.

We’re highlighting apps that have invested time developing strong themes, beautiful artwork and a wealth of assets. When you’ve put this much energy into your app, make sure its protected from anyone from who might try to profit off your labor and ingenuity.

Have you been too busy this fall to keep up with us at the Amazon Appstore? We've been busy too, with releasing differeent products to delight our customers and developers from our new Vungle SDK, to the new Amazon Fire TV and Fire HD 10 tablet.

Apps that don’t have a target audience can fall into the trap of trying to be everything to everyone. This often creates a product that has a tough time standing out or appealing to any particular subset of users. That can mean missed opportunities for downloads.

We’re excited to announce that Vungle’s industry-leading performance marketing platform is now available on Fire tablets and the Amazon Appstore.

Starting today, customers in the US, UK, Germany, and Japan will begin receiving the new Fire HD 10 with Alexa Hands-Free, available for order on Amazon.com, starting at $149.99.

Come spend an evening with Amazon's Android Developers on Friday, October 13th from 6-9PM for an opportunity to meet and network with fellow Android enthusiasts.