Here is a recap of new posts for the week of July 6th on the Amazon Apps & Services Blog.
Monday, July 6th |
Announcing Twitch Stream Special Guest Starr Long Developer Evangelist, Paul Cutsinger announced he will be interviewing Starr Long, the executive producer of Shroud of the Avatar. |
Tuesday, July 7th |
Web Event: Learn What the Top 50 Developers Do With IAP That You Don't Developer Evangelist, Mike Hines will be offering his popular monetization talk as a webcast. If you haven’t seen it, be sure to tune in to learn actionable data on what the top apps are doing in the Amazon Appstore with IAP. Going Granular: Device Targeting for non-Amazon Devices We introduced new features to improve device targeting for your Amazon Appstore apps and games on Android devices. |
Wednesday, July 8th |
An Introduction to the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) We shared an introduction to the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK), a collection of self-service APIs and tools that make it fast and easy for you to create new voice-driven capabilities for Alexa. Alexa is the same cloud-based voice service that powers Amazon Echo. With a few lines of code, you can easily integrate existing web services with Alexa or, in just a few hours, you can build entirely new experiences designed around voice. Planet Destroyer: Concept to Greenlight Welcomes Luke Burtis of tinyBuild Developer Evangelist, Paul Cutsinger announced he will be interviewing Luke Burtis, Production Director from tinyBuild the indie game developer and publisher. From the Twitch Stream: Measuring Social with NinjaMetrics CEO, Dmitri Williams (Planet Destroyer Episode 150703) Developer Evangelist, Paul Cutsinger shared some episode highlights from his interview with Dimitri Williams, CEO of NinjaMetrics. |
Thursday, July 9th |
Build Engaging Second Screen Experiences for Amazon Fire TV with the New Amazon Fling SDK We announced the Amazon Fling service. This new service is a cross-platform toolkit that enables mobile developers to build rich multi-screen experiences for Amazon Fire TV. |
Friday, July 10th |
Creating an Amazon Echo Adventure Game with the Alexa Skills Kit We shared experiences creating a voice based adventure game for Echo using the Alexa Skills Kit. Dialogue is the User Experience for voice based games and so it is where you will spend most of your time when designing the game interactions. |
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