Getting started as a developer using Amazon Location Service

You can use Amazon Location Service to provide geographic-related functionality for apps across many different form factors and systems, including backend web services, web applications, and mobile applications. There are many tools provided to help you build your applications, including SDKs, libraries, and sample code.

This section provides information and links to help you get started with Amazon Location. In particular, the following topics provide information that can be most helpful to you:

• Scenarios and use cases – A list of development scenarios and how Amazon Location Service can help you complete them.

• Amazon Location SDKs and tools – The software development kits (SDKs) and libraries that will help you when programming with Amazon Location.

• Amazon Location Service API Reference – A reference to the core Amazon Location APIs that ship with the AWS SDK.

• Code examples – This section provides samples that will help you get started or to add functionality to your existing application.

• Quick start tutorial – This tutorial shows you how to create your first application. There are versions of the tutorial for creating a web application or an Android-based mobile application.

• Amazon Location Service concepts – This section of this guide describes the basic concepts of Amazon Location, including sections on Maps, Places search, Routes, and Geofences and Trackers.

• Amplify – Amplify is a complete solution that encapsulates much of the functionality needed for creating web and mobile applications using the AWS Cloud. If you are already using Amplify, or choose to use Amplify, it has a geo library using Amazon Location Service built-in that you can use. To get started with Amplify Geo, see the documentation here.