Here’s what you missed last week on the Amazon Developer blog:
“Recommended By Your Apps” – Coming Soon to the Fire TV Home Screen
In an upcoming release, the Amazon Fire TV home screen will have a new row called “Recommended by Your Apps.” This row will show content recommendations that your app sends, promoting deeper engagement and loyalty for your apps.
Mobile Power Users: Four Important Traits
Globally, there are 67.2 million mobile gamers who spend big on mobile games each month. In the US, 6.7 percent of all mobile gamers spend more than $25 per month on or in mobile games. In this post, we list four things that all developers should know about targeting mobile power users.
Huawei Updates Mate 9 with Amazon Alexa-Integrated Mobile App
Huawei released an over-the-air (OTA) update today bringing hands-free Amazon Alexa capabilities to Mate 9 smartphones in the US. New Mate 9 smartphones will ship with the Huawei Alexa application pre-installed, making it the first Android smartphone to have the cloud-based voice service as a native, out-of-the-box feature.
Makers Academy’s Alexa Series: How to Build a ‘Hello World’ Skill with Ruby
Amazon Alexa has partnered with Maker’s Academy to produce a series on building Alexa skills using Ruby. This blog post is the first module in the series, and covers all the terminology and techniques required to get fully-functional skills pushed live to owners of Alexa-enabled devices all around the world using Ruby and Sinatra.
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Source: Alexa