New Alexa voice commands now available for many Netgear products
Thursday, March 2, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
NETGEAR, Inc. is introducing support of voice commands for your home WiFi network using Amazon Alexa voice service platform. Your voice can now command NETGEAR Nighthawk routers, Nighthawk DSL modem routers and their Orbi Tri-Band WiFi System.The Amazon Alexa voice service has become a popular command center for smart homes. And now, using the NETGEAR skill for Alexa, y...
Amazon Releases System XRay for Amazon Fire TV Developers
Thursday, August 25, 2016 by Richard Harris
Amazon Fire TV now has a feature called System X-Ray that allows developers to visually track device and application metrics while an application is in use. This is a useful tool for developers and testers, as it gives them pertinent metrics that can help diagnose issues within an app or game.System X-Ray is available on all Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick devices...
ColorTV's New Platform is Designed to Help Developers Monetize Connected TV Apps
Tuesday, July 19, 2016 by Richard Harris
ColorTV, a connected TV app marketing platform, has announced that it has raised $1.5 million in seed funding led by Foxconn. ColorTV is developing a platform for brands to drive native discovery of content and apps on connected TVs and for developers to better monetize connected TV applications. ColorTV was founded in part by the team that bootstrapped and sold TapIt.c...
Amazon's New Developer SDK for iOS and Android Adds Functionality for Amazon Fire TV
Friday, July 10, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Amazon has launched the new Amazon Fling service, a cross-platform toolkit that enables mobile developers to build multi-screen experiences for Amazon Fire TV. The Amazon Fling SDK allows sending video, audio and images from iOS and Android mobile apps to Amazon Fire TV. In addition to posting media content to Amazon Fire TV, developers can also leverage two-way communi...
Amazon Releases Developer Preview of Fire OS 5
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon has announced the developer preview of Fire OS 5, the Android-based operating system for Fire tablets, Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. Fire OS 5 is based on Android Lollipop which helps ensure Android apps work on Fire devices with no additional engineering effort. Developers can request early access to the Fire OS 5 developer preview and view apps running...
Amazon Updates Web App Starter Kit for Fire TV
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon’s Web App Starter Kit for Fire TV is an open source project intended to help developers get up to speed on creating simple media-oriented apps for the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. The Starter Kit provides a basic media app template that is designed for the 10-foot user experience and includes UI controls, support for the Fire TV remote, sample UI compon...
Amazon Will Showcase How Game Developers Can Reach New Customers with Twitch at GDC
Monday, February 23, 2015 by Richard Harris
At GDC Amazon Will Showcase How Game Developers Can Reach New Customers with TwitchAmazon is diving deep into the GDC experience as it showcases its Twitch platform, Amazon Mobile Ads API, AWS, and the Amazon App Store. This year’s GDC will provide Amazon with a big opportunity to promote the Twitch live video-game-streaming service as an opportunity for game developers...
New Amazon Firestick to Take on Google Chromecast
Tuesday, November 4, 2014 by Richard Harris
Amazon is taking on Google Chromecast with its new streaming media Fire TV Stick, a small stick that connects to the HDMI port on an HDTV. Priced at $39, the new streaming devices will ship November 19.Developers who have created content for Amazon Fire TV will probably see a bump as the Fire TV Stick makes its way into Christmas stockings offering a dual-core proc...
Tuxera’s AllConnect SDK Provides a Mobile Streaming Solution Across Devices
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Tuxera, a provider of file system and streaming technologies, has announced its AllConnect SDK, a cross-platform content streaming solution which provides compatibility with all devices that support Apple Airplay, Google Chromecast, DIAL or DLNA standard.The SDK helps meet the challenge of accessing, managing and streaming any content from a growing number of storage lo...
Marmalade to Offer Developers $80,000 in Prizes for Apps Deployed to the Amazon Appstore
Monday, July 21, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Marmalade Technologies is hosting a new weekly promotion with a total prize value of over $80,000. To enter the contest developers can use any Marmalade license, including the free license, to deploy to the Amazon Appstore and enter into the weekly prize draw to win Marmalade and Amazon prizes.Every Marmalade app that is successfully submitted to the Amazon Ap...
New Component Allows Xamarin Android Apps to Integrate Amazon Fire TV
Friday, May 9, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Xamarin has announced a new Amazon Fire TV Component to allow Xamarin Android apps to integrate Amazon Fire TV features such as Notifications and Game Controller.With Xamarin’s new Fire TV API developers have access to the in-box Fire TV remote, the Amazon Fire game controller, and other game controllers that support the Bluetooth HID gamepad profile.To gets starte...
Report: Amazon Fire TV Might Be Where You Should Put Your Next App
Monday, April 14, 2014 by Richard Harris
The TV streaming player market heated up a bit with the launch of the new Amazon Fire TV recently and some developers with Amazon Fire compatible (l dedicated) apps already in the market benefited from the launch because their apps were first out of the gate. In a new report from Distimo who was recording the stats of the launch using App Trends, showed Entertainment ap...
