With Amazon Fire TV customers can now enjoy your mobile apps and game through a console-like experience on the big screen. Before you publish your app or game there are some important things you will need to consider.

Recorded live at MoDev Wearables and Things this free video will introduce you to Amazon Fire TV and what you need to do to get your apps ready. What does your app’s 10 foot experience look like, how will your touch controls convert to a controller based experience, how will you sync game progress across all of your players devices, and what are the TV-specific gotchas like overscan. This session will get you started with Amazon’s free Fire TV developer SDK and provide plenty of tips for getting your app up and running.  Both Android Studio and Xamarin Studio will also be covered showing how you can target Fire TV using the same familiar developer environment.

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Come Join Us at MoDevCon 2014

The Amazon Appstore team will be at MoDevCon 2014 next week. From the MoDev conference site “Now in its fourth year, ModevCon (formerly ModevEast) is must-attend for anyone developing, designing, and marketing mobile apps, websites and related products. For two days, you'll connect with the people, content and platforms that matter most.”  Stop by the Amazon booth to get one on one help from a developer evangelist and test out your Android app on a Fire device.

Getting started with Fire TV on Android Studio and Xamarin Studio

For more information about getting started with Xamarin Studio and Amazon Fire devices, check out the following additional resources:

• MoDevCon 2014 Conference
• Xamarin Studio
• Xamarin Getting Started with Android
• Xamarin Fire TV Component
• Amazon Mobile Apps and Services Developer Portal
• Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick SDK

-Dave (@TheDaveDev)