The document discusses building mobile apps using AWS cloud services. It provides an agenda for a mobile development workshop covering web, React Native, and data-driven app development. It lists prerequisites for each day including knowledge of JavaScript, Node.js, and mobile app frameworks. It also summarizes trends in mobile use and apps, and strategies for making apps stand out. Finally, it outlines AWS services for mobile and how the AWS Mobile SDK and Mobile Hub can help integrate AWS in mobile apps.

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Introduction to Mobile Development with AWS
Speaker Name,
Speaker Title

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AWS Loft: Mobile Week Agenda
Building Web Apps with AWS
Introduction to React Native
Data Driven Apps with GrapQL

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Prerequisites: Day 1 (Web Development)
• Knowledge of JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• An AWS Account with administrative privileges
• The AWS CLI installed - http://amzn.to/aws-cli
• Node.js – https://nodejs.org
• Yarn – https://yarnpkg.com
• npm install –g awsmobile-cli

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Prerequisites: Day 2 (React Native Development)
• All the Day 1 prerequisites
• Expo Client (on phone – download from iOS or Android App Store)
• npm install –g react-native-cli
• npm install –g create-react-native-app
• (Optional) Xcode with iOS Simulator
• (Optional) Android Studio with Android Emulator

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Prerequisites: Day 3 (Data Driven Apps, Build&Test)
• All the prerequisites for Day 1 & Day 2
• GraphQL Playground - http://amzn.to/graphql-app

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• We minimize the cost of the workshop. Average cost is < $1 / month
Get a $20 AWS Credit
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The State of Mobile

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Mobile Use
Continues to Grow
91% 61%
US Adult Population
Owns a mobile phone
Of these were
Smartphone users
2.32
Billion
Smartphone usage will surpass
2.5 billion in 2018
Source: Statista

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App Downloads
JULY 2013 JUNE 2014 2017
50
BILLION
75
BILLION
197
BILLION
Google’s Android market
passed 50 billion app
downloads and featured over
1 million available apps.
Apple iTunes reached 75
billion app downloads and
featured 1.2 million available
apps.
In 2017, over 197 billion apps
had been downloaded,
resulting in $77 billion in
revenue.
Source: Statista

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How People Access The Web
Desktop Mobile Tablet
Source: Statcounter

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DENNIS INFOGRAPHIC

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Web and Mobile are converging
• Support from platform
• Feature support first
• Delivery via App Store
• Native Performance
• Vendor lock-in
• No shared code
• Support from community
• Features come later
• Delivery via App Store
• Native Performance
• Common Business Logic
• ~ 80% common code
• Supoort from community
• Common Web Features
• Delivery via Web
• Browser Performance
• Single Codebase
• 100% common code
Native Apps Cross Platform Apps Progressive Web Apps

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What are developers using?
39%
18%
12%
31%
%age of Mobile Developers (primary platform)
Cross-Platform (Xamarin, React Native)
Hybrid (Ionic, Phonegap, Cordova)
Mobile Web (PWA)

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Building your Mobile App

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Make your app stand out
• Creativity is important
§ Start with a compelling app
§ Add cool features that people will talk about
§ Continually innovate
• Understand how your users are using your app
§ Measure Success and Failure
§ Engage your users constantly
• Quality first
§ Look for friction points – then remove them
§ Test up front on a wide variety of devices
§ Collect crash reports and act on them (release often!)

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Make your app stand out: Creativity
Wow Factors
Minimal Needs
Intuitive Design Personalization Experience Transfer

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Business to Employee App Concerns
• Many concerns are the same
– Intuitive and Responsive UI
– Personalization
– Cross-platform Experience
• There are some differences
– Connectivity to existing data sources
– Authentication to enterprise portals
– On-device security and privacy

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Cloud Services for Mobile

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Cloud Concerns
Security Privacy Scalability
User Segmentation Engagement Business Model

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AWS has the services you need

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Mobile Optimized AWS Services
Major
Use-case
Specific
Essential
Amazon Pinpoint Amazon Cognito AWS Device Farm
Amazon DynamoDB Amazon S3 AWS Lambda Amazon API Gateway
Amazon Lex Amazon Polly Amazon Rekognition Amazon Cloudfront

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Security and Privacy: Built-in
• AWS Cloud Security Platform – because security is our highest priority
§ On-disk Encryption, SSL Communication
§ Shared Responsibility Model so you control your own data
• AWS Compliance
§ Certifications (ISO27001, PCI DSS level 1, SOC1, SOC2, SOC3, and more)
§ Compliance Programs (HIPAA, ITAR, EU Model Clauses, and more)
• For more information, see our security pages
§ https://aws.amazon.com/security/

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AWS Mobile SDK for AWS Services
Official
Languages
Native Apps Web / Hybrid Apps
Plus the help you expect
• Tutorials, How To, API documentation
• Starter Kits for common frameworks
• Engineers on Stack Overflow and AWS Forums

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AWS Mobile Hub makes it easy
• Manage multiple services as a
project
• Configure common services
for best practices
• Download service constants
for iOS, Android and JavaScript
• Export project for repeatable
deployments

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Demonstration
AWS Mobile Hub

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AWS: The Right Platform for Mobile Developers
AWS Services AWS Mobile SDK AWS Mobile Hub
The features you need Easy to Integrate Easy to Configure

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@AWSforMobile
Everything you need to connect
Your mobile app to the cloud