Wednesday, July 16th

Adding Dynamic Perspective to Your Unity Games
We walked through how to quickly add Dynamic Perspective to your existing Unity game.

Thursday July 10th

Top 10 Tips for Optimizing Your Android Apps for Fire Phone
Have an Android app already but not sure where to start with Fire phone?  We offer plenty of tips and tricks to get your app quickly up and running on Fire phone and how take advantage of its new capabilities.

Wednesday, July 9th   

90 Seconds to Find out If Your App Is Ready for the Fire Phone
We covered testing your Fire phone app with our free App Testing Service.

Thursday July 3rd

Extend Amazon Fire’s Home Carousel: Make a Great First Impression
We covered Fire phone’s new enhanced home carousel and how you can expose content from your app directly on the home screen.

Wednesday June 25th

Firefly: Connecting Your Apps to the Physical World
We posted examples of how developers are taking advantage of Fire’s new Firefly capabilities.

Tuesday, June 24th

Limited Time Offer: Earn a Guaranteed $6 CPM on Interstitial Ads from the Amazon Mobile Ad Network
We talked about new Amazon Mobile Ad Network incentives for developers distributing qualified apps on Fire phone.

Monday, June 23rd

Amazon Fire: Design Best Practices for Dynamic Perspective
We covered some of the design principles behind the Fire UX and what you need to know to design the best customer experience possible.

Friday, June 20th

Appstore Developer Select Benefits Expands to Fire Phone: 500K Amazon Coins Offer per Qualifying App
We announced Fire Phone extra benefits for our Appstore Developer Select program.  Amazon will offer 500,000 Amazon Coins ($5,000 value) for each of your qualifying paid apps or apps with in-app purchasing that meet the additional program requirements for Fire Phone (up to a maximum of 3 awards/developer). You can create campaigns via the Promotions Console to give these Coins away to consumers purchasing any of your paid apps or in-app items.

Wednesday, June 18th

Announcing the Amazon Fire Phone: App and Game Experiences Never before Possible
We unveiled Fire, the first phone designed by Amazon.  Fire is the first and only smartphone with Dynamic Perspective and Firefly. With Fire Develop SDKs available now, these new technologies enable you to create more immersive experiences in your apps and games that increase user engagement. Now is the time to submit your apps and games! Apps that are approved by July 18 will be in the Amazon Appstore when Fire ships on July 25th.