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With Amazon GameOn, you can drive engagement and increase monetization of your games by adding leaderboards, leagues, and multi-round competitions to your games, allowing players to compete for real-world prizes fulfilled by Amazon or other in-game rewards.
GameOn is a set of flexible APIs built on AWS cloud infrastructure that works on any operating system, giving you the ability to scale quickly. It's easy to integrate GameOn — all you need to do is access the REST APIs.
In this tutorial, we will walk you through how to integrate GameOn's APIs into an Android game. Using a simple quiz game as an example, you'll see how each piece fits together to produce a working game integration. The code for this game will be provided in whole without integration, then we'll go through each integration step.
We'll use the Kotlin language in code, but all concepts apply to Java. We'll also stick to standard Android framework classes, like Activities and AsyncTasks.
You'll learn how to:
- Register and authenticate players
- Allow players to enter a tournament or match
- Submit scores and get the leaderboard
- And more!
About Amazon GameOn
Are you new to GameOn? Get started today. Some developers have even been able to set up competitions in their game with GameOn in as little as one day.
Want to learn more about GameOn? Here are some additional resources:
- Amazon GameOn, a set of flexible APIs that lets you easily create cross-platform competitions and award players with real-world prizes fulfilled by Amazon.
- Free eBook: Best Practices for Setting Up Tournaments in Your Games: Learn how to pick the best tournament style for your game, when to use entry requirements, how to leverage user-generated competitions, and more.
- On-demand webinar: The Case for Competitive Gaming. Evangelist Mike Hines talks about the growth behind esports and what it means for developers. You'll learn about who is watching and playing competitive games, esports revenue, and where competitive gaming is taking off.
