Category: Front-End Web & Mobile

Last year I wrote about AWS Device Farm and told you how you can use it to Test Mobile Apps on Real Devices. As I described at the time, AWS Device Farm allows you to create a project, identify an application, configure a test, and then run the test against a variety of iOS and […]

If you build mobile apps, you know that you have two implementation choices. You can build native or hybrid applications that compile to an executable file. You can also build applications that run within the device’s web browser. We launched the AWS Device Farm in July with support for testing native and hybrid applications on […]

Update (August 4, 2015) – Support for testing iOS apps is available now; click here to get started! We launched AWS Device Farm earlier this month with support for testing apps on Android and Fire OS devices. I am happy to give you a heads-up that you will soon be able to test your apps […]

Although the phrase “write once, test everywhere” was coined to describe another technology, I believe that it also applies to mobile applications. The wide variety of carriers, manufacturers, models, operating systems (including versions, patches, and proprietary extensions), screen sizes, input devices, connectivity options, device settings, and permission settings combine to create a test matrix that […]

I like to think of infrastructure as the part of a system that everyone needs and no one likes to work on! It is often undifferentiated & messy, tedious to work on, difficult to manage, critical to the success of whatever relies on it, and generally taken for granted (as long as it works as […]

April 30, 2018: We’ve discontinued HAQM Mobile Analytics. HAQM Pinpoint now provides the analytics features that HAQM Mobile Analytics previously offered. If you’re new to Mobile Analytics, you can integrate the mobile analytics features of HAQM Pinpoint into your app. If you currently use HAQM Mobile Analytics, you can migrate to HAQM Pinpoint.   The […]

Version 2 of the AWS Mobile SDK has been available in Developer Preview since early July (See my blog post, New AWS Mobile Services to learn more). During the Developer Preview, many developers used the AWS Mobile SDK in their apps and provided us with a lot of really good feedback. Today we are wrapping […]

April 30, 2018: We’ve discontinued HAQM Mobile Analytics. HAQM Pinpoint now provides the analytics features that HAQM Mobile Analytics previously offered. If you’re new to Mobile Analytics, you can integrate the mobile analytics features of HAQM Pinpoint into your app. If you currently use HAQM Mobile Analytics, you can migrate to HAQM Pinpoint. The Mobile […]