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Amazon Appstore Starts Accepting HTML 5 Web Apps

10:02 am August 8, 2013 By Julian Horsey

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Amazon has this week announced that they are now accepting HTML5 Web Apps for inclusion into their Amazon AppStore, and has today launched web app support in the Mobile App Distribution Program.

Amazon is now allowing developers to submit URLs for their HTML5 web apps and mobile websites without the need to use third party software or doing any native app development.

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Amazon explains: 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.

For more information on the new Amazon AppStore HTML5 submissions jump over to the Amazon press release website for details.

Source: TNW

Filed Under: Technology News

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