The AWS SDK for Android provides a library, code samples, and documentation for developers to build connected mobile applications using AWS.

For more information about using the SDK, please reference the online documentation here: aws.amazon.com/documentation/sdkforandroid

For best practices for using the AWS SDK for Android, please consider following our AWS Mobile Developer Blog

Version 2 of the AWS Mobile SDK for Android has reached General Availability (GA) and is no longer in Developer Preview. Version 1 is deprecated as of September 29, 2014 and will continue to be available until December 31, 2014 in our aws-sdk-android-v1 repository. If you are building new apps, we recommend you use Version 2.

• Amazon Cognito – is a simple user identity and synchronization service that helps you securely manage and synchronize app data for your users across their mobile devices. With Amazon Cognito, you can save any kind of data, such as app preferences or game state, in the AWS Cloud without writing any backend code or managing any infrastructure.
• Amazon Mobile Analytics – is a service for collecting, visualizing and understanding app usage data at scale. Amazon Mobile Analytics reports are typically updated within 60 minutes from when data are received. Amazon Mobile Analytics is built to scale with the business and can collect and process billions of events from millions of endpoints.
• Amazon Kinesis Recorder – enables you to reliably record data to an Amazon Kinesis data stream from your mobile app. Kinesis Recorder batches requests to handle intermittent network connection and enable you to record events even when the device is offline.
• Amazon S3 Transfer Manager - We have added the ability to pause and resume downloads/uploads to make transferring files to S3 faster and easier.

For more information on Andorid development, see the Android developer site at: developer.android.com