Tuesday, June 23^rd           

Picking the Right Tool for the Job: Unity vs HTML5

Amazon Developer Evangelist, Jesse Freeman, shared his advice on choosing between HTML5 or Unity for your own game development.

Thursday, June 25^th    

Introducing the Alexa Skills Kit, Enabling Developers to Create Entirely New Voice Driven Capabilities

We announced 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 cloud-based voice service that powers Amazon Echo, a new category of device designed around your voice.

Announcing the Alexa Voice Service (AVS)

We announced that the Alexa Voice Service (AVS), the same service that powers Amazon Echo, is coming soon to third party hardware makers who want to integrate Alexa into their connected devices.

Build New Voice Experiences with Help from the Alexa Fund

We announced the Alexa Fund--named for Alexa, the cloud-based voice service that powers Amazon Echo—will provide up to $100 million in investments to fuel voice technology innovation. Experiences designed around the human voice will fundamentally improve the way people use technology.

Friday, June 26^th

Amazon Appstore in the News: Week of June 26^th

Lots of news this week with the public release of the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK), which was reported by VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Gizmodo and many others. ProgrammableWeb covered the launch of the Fire OS 5 developer preview, which provides early access to new OS features plus more.