Amazon Appstore Now Accepting HTML5 Web Apps - Making It Easy for Developers to Reach Millions of Kindle Fire and Android Customers Worldwide
HTML5 web apps can now be discovered, downloaded, installed and used in the Amazon Appstore providing better opportunities for developers to make money
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 2013-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) - Amazon today launched web app support in the Mobile App Distribution Program. Developers can now submit URLs for their HTML5 web apps and mobile websites and have Amazon offer that content to millions of Kindle Fire and Amazon Appstore customers in the same, convenient way as native apps. Developers can submit and distribute mobile web content without using third party software or doing any native app development, and they can take advantage of Amazon's In-App Purchasing API for JavaScript, which provides them the option to build sales of digital goods into their apps. Customers can find great new web apps in the Amazon Appstore today, including Dream Pet Link from Spil Games, and IGN Video Game Reviews, News & Previews from IGN Entertainment. Developers can get started with the Amazon Mobile App Distribution Program by visiting https://developer.amazon.com/appstore.
Web developers and content publishers have historically faced numerous challenges when building, optimizing and distributing web apps for mobile devices. Previously, third party software was needed to convert mobile web content to native apps to participate in an appstore, and on-device debugging was a challenging and necessary prerequisite for achieving strong performance on a large variety of web runtimes. Amazon is removing these roadblocks by providing the following benefits:
Easy distribution through the Amazon Appstore: Developers submit URLs and metadata for their HTML5 web apps and mobile websites directly to the Amazon Mobile App Distribution Portal. Amazon distributes the mobile web content through the Amazon Appstore to millions of Amazon customers using Kindle Fire and Android devices in nearly 200 countries.
Strong web app performance on Kindle Fire: Developers benefit from native-like experiences on Kindle Fire with a new, faster web runtime, based on the open-source Chromium project. The runtime supports the latest HTML5 features and includes standards-based extensions enabling developers to build a web app once and deploy it across multiple platforms without requiring platform specific changes. In addition, the new runtime includes web developer tools enabling on-device debugging on Kindle Fire.
Great ways to make money: Amazon's proven In-App Purchasing API is now available for JavaScript. This provides web developers the ability to easily build sales of digital goods such as subscriptions, level upgrades, and digital currencies into their web apps, thereby enabling a friction-free checkout experience.
We've heard from developers that making their web apps available for mobile devices is hard because many times it means rewriting their app, which takes extra time and often requires third party tools, said Mike George, Vice President of Amazon Appstore, Games and Cloud Drive. By launching support for HTML5 web apps in the Mobile App Distribution Program, we're giving web developers the tools they need and all the benefits that native apps already enjoy in the Amazon Appstore and on Kindle Fire. This opens up new possibilities-starting with faster discovery, access to tools for increased monetization, and the ability to reach new customers for greater exposure.
TreSensa is a game development/distribution company that optimizes games for the mobile web. Web apps represent one of the largest growth sectors for games, so we are thrilled to see Amazon innovating in this space by adding web apps to the Amazon Appstore, said Rob Grossberg, CEO of TreSensa. Now we are able to offer all our games to millions of Amazon customers worldwide. What's more, we can implement frictionless game monetization by leveraging Amazon's updated In App-Purchasing API for JavaScript. Web app support in the Amazon Appstore is a literal game-changer for both consumers and TreSensa.
Spil Games is a games publisher of online and social games. Amazon's new web app initiative has opened up a brand new avenue for us to reach customers through the Amazon Appstore, said Erik Goossens, CEO of Spil Games. With the addition of web apps to the Mobile App Distribution Program, we are able to offer our games to millions of customers worldwide using the same discovery and launch experience that native Android apps enjoy.
Scirra is a popular HTML5 game framework. We believe HTML5 is the software platform of the future, said Ashley Gullen, Founder of Scirra. Were really excited that Amazon supports HTML5 and has taken the innovative and valuable step of using state-of-the-art browser technology to allow development of web apps that are listed alongside traditional native apps. It also opens the door to sophisticated HTML5-powered engines like Construct 2, and were proud to be launching immediate support today.
IGN Entertainment is a leading provider of game reviews, news and videos. Our goal is to make IGN available on all screens where people play or read about games, so we're delighted to be launching an app on Kindle Fire, said Todd Northcutt, VP of Product at IGN Entertainment. Amazon's innovative approach made it an easy decision to bring IGN to the Amazon Appstore with minimal time and development effort on our part. We're very excited to stand beside Amazon as they make the mobile app ecosystem more accessible to millions of content publishers worldwide.
Today's launch of web app support in the Amazon Appstore is the latest offering in an array of services that make Amazon the most complete end-to-end ecosystem for de
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Amazon Appstore Now Accepting HTML5 Web Apps - Making It Easy for Developers to Reach Millions of Kindle Fire and Android Customers Worldwide 
