User guide

Developing AWS Applications for Android

If you are an Android developer, Amazon Web Services publishes a separate SDK specifically for Android

development. For more information, go to the documentation for the AWS SDK for Android.

What's in this Guide?

This is the AWS SDK for Java Developer Guide, which aims to provide you with information about how

to install, set up, and use the SDK for Java to program applications in Java that can make full use of the

services offered by Amazon Web Services.

Here is a guide to the contents:

Getting Started (p. 4)

If you are just starting out with the SDK for Java, you should first read through the Getting

Started (p. 4) section. It will guide you through downloading and installing the AWS SDK for Java,

and how to set up your development environment.

AWS SDK for Java Basics (p. 9)

This chapter provides general programming guidance for developing software with the AWS SDK

for Java, such as how to work with AWS credentials, AWS regions, exception handling, logging and

more.

Using AWS Services (p. 23)

This chapter provides specific guidance about using the SDK for Java with various AWS services,

such as DynamoDB, Amazon EC2 and Amazon SWF.

Additional Resources (p. 66)

This chapter provides information about additional resources that you can use to learn about the

AWS SDK for Java.

Document History (p. 72)

This chapter provides details about major changes to the documentation. New sections and topics

as well as significantly revised topics are listed here.

Viewing the Revision History for the SDK for

Java

The AWS SDK for Java is regularly updated to support new services and new service features. To see

what changed with a given release, you can check the release notes history.

Each release of the AWS SDK for Java is also published to GitHub.The comments in the commit history

provide information about what changed in each commit.To view the comments associated with a commit,

click the plus sign next to that commit.

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