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AWS Mobile SDK for Android

For Android, AWS provides an open source SDK that is distributed under an Apache license. This will provide libraries, code examples, and documentation to develop mobile applications using AWS.

Currently, AWS supports the following services for AWS Mobile SDK for Android:

Amazon Cognito Identity:
- Controls authentication and provides temporary credentials to connect devices and/or other untrusted environments
- Saves user data and synchronizes it
- Manages identity throughout the lifetime of an application
- We will discuss this topic in more detail in Chapter 6, User Authentication with AWS Cognito
Amazon Cognito Sync:
- Enables application-specific data to sync on cross-devices
- Syncs user data across the web and devices ...

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