Developing & Testing Mobile Apps on AWS

October 25th, 2016

In this session we will discuss how you can leverage the new cross-platform AWS Mobile Services to build a highly scalable and reliable mobile app, powered by the AWS Cloud. We will explore core functionality like authentication and authorization of users, data synchronization, backend infrastructure without the need to manage servers, understanding your user behavior, engaging your users and bringing your users back to your app. Improve the quality of your iOS, Android, and web applications by testing them against real smartphones and tablets in the AWS Cloud. Run tests across a large selection of physical devices in parallel from various manufacturers with varying hardware, OS versions and form factors. Unlike emulators, physical devices provide a more accurate understanding of how users interact with your app, by taking into account factors such as memory, CPU usage, location, and modifications done by manufactures and carriers to the firmware and software. No matter if you are building the next great social app, or a front-office enterprise mobile app, this session will discuss best practices and reference architectures for building reliable and scalable mobile apps.

Transcript

1. Developing & Testing
   Mobile Apps on AWS
   Danilo Poccia, Technical Evangelist
   @danilop
   danilop
   

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2. The best mobile apps run on AWS
   

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3. DEVELOP TEST ENGAGE
   Building quality mobile apps
   

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4. When developing mobile apps today, you want to focus on ...
   The great stuff that makes your app unique
   Not…
   The heavy lifting needed to manage back-end infrastructure
   AWS Mobile Services eliminate the heavy lifting
   

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5. DEVELOP
   TEST ENGAGE
   

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6. “Mobile” growing in all directions
   Published mobile apps
   continue to grow…
   …As “mobile” platforms
   expand to new domains
   TV
   Watch
   Car
   *Source: Vision Mobile
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   Published Apps in App Stores
   ('000s)*
   iOS App Store Google Play
   

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7. Apps are also getting more complex
   …To cloud-connected apps
   From basic client apps…
   Sign-in/Social
   Push notifications
   Usage analytics
   Cloud storage
   Crash analytics
   Ads
   Attribution
   analytics Config management
   Custom back ends
   

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8. AWS Mobile SDKs
   AWS Mobile Hub
   Authenticate users
   Analyze user behavior
   Store and share media
   Synchronize data
   Deliver media
   Amazon Cognito
   (Sync)
   Amazon Cognito
   (Identity)
   Amazon S3
   Amazon CloudFront
   Store data
   Amazon DynamoDB
   Amazon RDS
   Track retention
   Amazon Mobile
   Analytics
   Send push notifications
   Amazon SNS
   Mobile Push
   Server-side logic
   AWS Lambda
   AWS Device Farm
   Test your app
   Build and scale your apps on AWS
   Amazon Mobile
   Analytics
   

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9. “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
   

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10. There has to be a better way…
    

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11. 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
    

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12. AWS Mobile Hub: Fastest way to build apps on AWS
    

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13. DEVELOP
    TEST
    ENGAGE
    

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14. Instrumentation
    UI Automation
    UI Automator
    Your app
    Improve the quality of your apps by testing against real devices in the AWS cloud
    Automated testing on AWS Device Farm
    (native, hybrid, web)
    XCTest
    XCTest UI
    

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15. Select a device View historical sessions
    Interact with the device
    Introducing Device Farm:
    Remote access
    

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16. DEVELOP TEST
    ENGAGE
    

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17. Scalable and generous
    free tier
    Focus on metrics that
    matter. Usage reports
    available within 60
    minutes of receiving
    data from an app.
    Fast
    Scale to billions of
    events per day from
    millions of users.
    Own your data
    Simply and cost-effectively collect and analyze your application usage data
    Data collected are not
    shared, aggregated,
    or reused.
    Amazon Mobile Analytics
    

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18. “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it”
    -Lord Kelvin
    

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19. Daily/monthly active users
    Sessions
    Sticky factor
    In-app revenue
    Lifetime value (LTV)
    Retention
    …. and more
    (9 predefined metrics with one line of code)
    

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20. Fast, flexible, global messaging to any device or endpoint
    Global and fast at
    high scale
    Send messages to any
    device or endpoint
    Support for multiple
    platforms or frameworks
    Amazon Simple Notification Service
    

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21. Without worrying
    about infrastructure
    On real devices in
    the cloud
    Track and improve
    usage and monetization
    DEVELOP TEST ENGAGE
    AWS Mobile Services
    

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22. 
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23. Thank you
    @danilop
    danilop
    

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