Adrian Hall

Adrian Hall

Microsoft Program Manager by day; Mobile Developer by night

Recent posts

Learn to build mobile and web apps with AWS Amplify and Serverless Framework

October 02, 2018  3 minute read  

There has always been a bit of a problem between deploying your backend and then integrating that same backend with your front end code. The front end needs to know where the back end is located. The traditional approach is to create a configuration file for the purpose. But how? The AWS Mobile team created the awsmobile CLI and followed that with the AWS Amplify CLI. These tools are great for new projects. They provide for best practices deployment capabilities on the backend — and automati...

Authentication with AWS Amplify and Android: Facebook Login

October 01, 2018  8 minute read  

This will be an in-depth series on authentication with [AWS Amplify]. Here are the topics I am going to cover, and I will update each blog with the links as I complete the articles. The basics - a username/password system. Customizing the UI. Authenticating with Facebook. Authenticating with Google. Using third-party authentication providers. Using Time-based One-time passwords (TOTP). Using Biometric authentication. Doing fraud protection and analytics. This is part 3 — a...

Authentication with AWS Amplify and Android: Customizing the UI

September 23, 2018  9 minute read  

This will be an in-depth series on authentication with AWS Amplify. Here are the topics I am going to cover, and I will update each blog with the links as I complete the articles. The basics - a username/password system. Customizing the UI. Authenticating with Facebook. Authenticating with Google. Using third-party authentication providers. Using Time-based One-time passwords (TOTP). Using Biometric authentication. Doing fraud protection and analytics. This is part 2 - cus...

Authentication with AWS Amplify and Android: The Basics

September 18, 2018  11 minute read  

This will be an in-depth series on authentication with AWS Amplify. Here are the topics I am going to cover, and I will update each blog with the links as I complete the articles. The basics - a username/password system. Customizing the UI. Authenticating with Facebook. Authenticating with Google. Using third-party authentication providers. Using Time-based One-time passwords (TOTP). Using Biometric authentication. Doing fraud protection and analytics. I’m not going to cov...

Let your analytics drive engagement: Endpoint profiles with AWS Amplify and Android

September 11, 2018  6 minute read  

In my last article, I showed the current best way of integrating analytics into your Android app using Kotlin. The events are only half the story for engagement. You need to be able to segment your users so that you can send them appropriate signals to draw them back to your app. That means understanding your users — where they are, whether they have authenticated (and how), and what they are interested in. Amazon Pinpoint and the AWS Mobile SDK for Android provides some demographic informat...