AWS Mobile Hub lets you easily add and configure features for your mobile apps, including user authentication, data storage, backend logic, push notifications, content delivery, and analytics. In this session, we will demo how to create a mobile app with AWS Mobile Hub and integrate the features with AWS Services.

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John Chang 張書源
Technology Evangelist
October 2016
使用 AWS Mobile Hub 在雲端打造你的
行動 App

2. What to Expect from the Session
1. Mobile Hub background
2. Feature overview
3. Demo

3. The best mobile apps are built on AWS

4. “Mobile” growing in all directions
Published mobile apps
continue to grow…
…As “mobile” platforms
expand to new domains
TV
Watch
Car
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5. Apps are also getting more complex
…To cloud-connected appsFrom basic client apps…
Sign-in/Social
Push notifications
Usage analytics
Cloud storage
Crash analytics
Ads
Attribution
analytics Config management
Custom back ends

6. “AWS has what we need, but…it’s complex”
1. Which services should I use? 2. How do I connect them?
Identity provider SDKs
+
=
Example:
Login screen & integration code
+
SDK

7. There has to be a better way…

8. Introducing: The AWS Mobile Hub
1. Single integrated console
2. Pre-built features
3. Auto-provisioned services
4. Auto-generated app
Result: Build apps on AWS in minutes

9. Introducing: The AWS Mobile Hub

10. Create a project and add features

11. Configure how your users sign in:
• No sign-in, optional, or mandatory
Configure sign-in providers:
• Facebook (Google, Twitter, Amazon to follow)
• Your own system
Adds a sign-in screen to your quickstart app
Powered by Amazon Cognito Identity
User sign-in

12. Store user files such as photos
• User-only access or all-user access
Store user profile data
• Key-value pairs
• Syncs across devices where user signed in
Quickstart app includes usage examples
• Contains file browser and color selector
Powered by Amazon S3 and Amazon Cognito Sync
User data storage

13. Monitor app usage with analytics
• Session, monetization, and custom events
• Monitor active users, monetization, retention
Quickstart app includes all three event types
Access your dashboard from the Mobile Hub
App analytics
Powered by Amazon Mobile Analytics

14. Store application assets in the cloud
• Example: Resource files or media assets
Use a CDN for faster delivery (optional)
Quickstart app includes on-device cache logic
• Set max cache size
• Pin specific files to the cache
Powered by Amazon S3 and CloudFront
App content delivery

15. Run back-end code in the cloud
• Share functions across apps
• Update on the fly without app submissions
Call directly from your mobile app
• You define inputs/outputs
Write in Java, Javascript, or Python
You write code, we manage infrastructure
Powered by AWS Lambda
Cloud logic

16. Send push notifications to your apps
• iOS or Android
• 1:1 or topic/subscription based
Quickstart app demonstrates features
• Enable/disable notifications
• Auto-registers push tokens with SNS
• Lets you select topic subscriptions
Powered by Amazon SNS
Push notifications

17. AWS IoT Rules Engine & Amazon SNS
Push Notifications
Apple APNS Endpoint, Google GCM Endpoint, Amazon ADM Endpoint, Windows WNS
Amazon SNS -> HTTP Endpoint (Or SMS or Email)
Call HTTP based 3rd party endpoints through SNS with subscription and retry support
SNS
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18. Download your starter app & start coding…

19. Testing apps with Amazon Device Farm

20. Monitoring usage with Mobile Analytics

21. Demo

22. 挑戰 A: 建立推播通知的 Mobile App
Step 1
使用 Mobile Hub
建立一個Android
或是 iOS 應用程式
Step 2
加入SNS
推播訊息功能
Step 3
測試：按下Mobile App上
的按鈕之後，可以推送
“Hello, MOPCON!” 訊息
到模擬器或是手機上
AWS
Mobile Hub
Amazon
SNS
Mobile client

23. 挑戰 B: 使用Device Farm測試 Mobile App
Step 1
完成挑戰 A
Step2
使用 Device
Farm 測試
Mobile App 在三
個不同裝置的執
行畫面
測試Android或
iOS裝置
AWS
Mobile Hub
Mobile clientAWS
Device Farm

24. 挑戰 A & B: 獎品
Step Task Prize
1 使用 Mobile Hub 建立一個Android或是 iOS 應用程式
AWS 文件夾
2 加入推播訊息功能
3
測試：按下Mobile App上的按鈕之後，可以推送 “Hello, MOPCON!” 訊
息到模擬器或是手機上
Step Task Prize
1 完成挑戰 A
AWS 工具組
2 使用 Device Farm 測試 Mobile App 在三個不同裝置的執行畫面
• Android: Sony Sony Xperia Z5 (5.1.1), HTC One (5.1),
Samsung Galaxy Note5 (5.1.1)
• iOS: Apple iPhone 5s (9.3.1), Apple iPhone 6s (9.3.1), Apple
iPhone 6s Plus (9.3.1)
完成挑戰A & B且完整填寫問卷者，還可以得到價值50美元 AWS 積分!

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27. Thank you!