Amazon Developer Newsletter: July 2026

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Expand your reach on Fire TV

Launch your first Vega OS app
This step-by-step guide walks you through setting up your development environment, installing the Vega SDK, connecting to a Fire TV device, and publishing your first Hello World app.
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Build faster with AI-powered developer tools
Amazon Devices Builder Tools for AI brings Fire TV domain knowledge directly into your AI coding agent. Set it up with a single terminal command in Claude Code, Cursor, Kiro, or any MCP-compatible agent.
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Automate your testing

Vitals API is now in open beta
The Vitals API gives you programmatic access to real-time app health data for Fire TV and Fire tablet apps, so you can detect and resolve stability issues faster. Wire it into your CI/CD pipeline to gate releases on stability thresholds, or build automated Slack alerts when regressions appear. Existing Reporting API credentials work out of the box.
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Developer highlights

Meet us at Chain React
We’ll be at Chain React in Portland on July 29-31. Join our workshop “Past the Vibes: Build an Agent Harness for your React Native App” where you’ll learn how to build agents that plan, implement, and verify each other’s work — backed by reusable tools, project memory, and checkpoints.
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Virgin Atlantic’s AI experiment
In this fireside chat, Neil Letchford, VP of Digital Engineering at Virgin Atlantic, shares how they built a multi-agent concierge that lets customers search for flights, plan trips, and book travel. Learn how they shipped a compliant AI system in a regulated industry and what surprised them about how customers are using it.
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