Here’s what you missed last week on the Amazon Developer blog:

Webinar: Integrating Amazon APIs in Unity

If you are one of the millions of developers who create apps and games with Unity every day or are considering developing with Unity, you won’t want to miss our latest free webinar—Integrating Amazon APIs in Unity—hosted by Peter Heinrich on Tuesday January 31st. Reserve your spot now!

Unity touches 770 million gamers all over the world through games made using their engine. If you are one of the millions of developers who create with Unity every day or are considering developing with Unity, you won’t want to miss our latest free webinar: Integrating Amazon APIs in Unity.

Meet the Sugr Cube, a portable minimalist Wi-Fi speaker system now with Amazon Alexa.

With a growing number of smart products found in the home today, form factor design has become just as important as the technology found under the hood. Customers want smart home products that make their lives easier, but not at the expense of personal taste and design aesthetic. That’s where Sugr, a global innovator in high-definition Wi-Fi audio systems, comes in.

Customers can stream music from Spotify with Spotify Connect technology, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and more just by tapping and asking. The speaker also responds to unique gestures or movements—customers can play music with simple touch commands, with rocking motions, or with the companion mobile application.

In our previous post in the series, we shared the 2 ways to integrate the Amazon IAP API into your Unity game: using the built-in cross-platform Purchasing API from Unity or using the Amazon Appstore Unity plugin. In this episode we provide a detailed walk through for implementing the Amazon IAP Unity plugin.

According to the Newzoo 2016 Global Mobile Market Report, the average revenue per paying user (ARPPU) on the Amazon Appstore is $23.40, 3.2 percent higher than the Android average.

With non-game app categories expected to reach $22.5Bn globally by 2020 (a 30.2% Compound Annual Growth Rate), the report suggests that these non-game publishers should look to mobile game publishers for insights on monetization strategies and metrics (ARPPU, conversion and retention rates).

Earlier in the summer, Ashwin Karuhatty reached out to a group of connected home integration professionals in the Custom Electronics Design and Installation Association (CEDIA). Karuhatty, part of Amazon’s Smart Home business development team, wanted to encourage integrators to develop new Alexa skills for the connected home. CEDIA’s annual conference was an ideal place to start.[Read More]

With Amazon Alexa, developers are creating novel and delightful voice experiences for customers. University students are rethinking the way we live. Meet Adam Betemedhin, an Electrical Engineering major, and Kevin Duong-Tran, a Computer Science major, from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Adam and Kevin, along with roughly 20 other students from multi-disciplinary backgrounds at UNLV, are participating in the 2017 Solar Decathlon, a competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy that will culminate in October of this year. [Read More]

Here’s what you missed last week on the Amazon Developer blog:

Announcing the Winners of the Amazon Alexa API Mashup Contest

Winners of the Amazon Alexa API Mashup Contest were announced early in the week. The contest challenged developers to connect their favorite public APIs to Alexa and attracted 163 projects. Congratulations to our winners in both the Most Creative and Most Useful categories.

We just wrapped up an exciting week at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). You may have read some of the buzz around voice and Alexa at CES this year. Companies and developers expanded Alexa skills and integrations with dozens of announcements and demonstrations at CES. Developers like you are helping to build the future of a voice-driven world . Thanks to your work, Alexa now has over 7,000 skills and a growing number of integrations on third-party devices. [Read More]

We love our Amazon Developer Evangelists! Unfortunately we hardly get to see them because they are traversing the globe, on a quest to connect with all of the brilliant developers out there and talk about their favorite subject: development! Here’s where you can find them this January:[Read More]