Prepare App Testers
With Live App Testing (LAT), app testers can download your test app on their devices and perform user tests.
Testers receive notifications to perform app testing through an email invitation and a push notification to their device. The following sections explain how your app testers can enable notifications to test your app, how they can download the app, and how they can install the app.
- Opt in a tester for LAT emails
- Test an app from an email invitation
- Test an app from a push notification
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Opt in a tester for LAT emails
When a tester first receives their email invitation, they have an option to unsubscribe from LAT communications. A tester who unsubscribes doesn't receive LAT invites through emails or push notifications. If after unsubscribing, a tester decides they would like to continue receiving LAT invitations, you can share the opt-in link with them. The opt-in link takes them to a web page where they can resubscribe to LAT emails.
To get the opt-in link to resubscribe a tester to LAT emails
- Go to the Developer Console Dashboard, sign in to your account, select Apps & Services > My Apps, and then select your app.
- Under Actions, select the menu icon, and then choose Live App Testing.
- Go to the Tester Management screen, select View all testers, and then click Copy opt-in link.
Test an app from an email invitation
When you add testers to a live app test, your testers receive an email invitation that contains a link to your app's test page with instructions on how to download and install your app on Fire and Android devices. Have your testers complete the following steps to download your app to begin testing.
To test your app from an email notification
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In the LAT invitation email, click the link for the marketplace that you will test, as shown in the following image.
LAT invitation email The link opens the Amazon Appstore retail page for the app in the specified marketplace.
On the page, if you have signed in to the Amazon Appstore on a supported device, you will see a Get App button with a list of compatible devices.
App retail page If you haven't signed in to Amazon Appstore on a device yet, or if a particular device is not available in your current marketplace, that device will not appear. If none of the devices that your app targets are available in a given marketplace, the Get App button is replaced with a Continue button on the app's retail page:
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Click Get App.
You're provided with instructions on how to install the app. You can test on as many devices as you have associated with your Amazon account that your app targets.
Test an app from a push notification
In addition to the email notification, testers can receive a push notification on their Fire tablets, Fire TVs, and Android devices. Testers are eligible to receive push notifications for LAT if the device is registered to the account used for LAT test email notifications.
When you receive a push notification, tap or select the notification on the device. Testers are directed to the app's test page on the Amazon Appstore, where they can download the app and perform user tests.
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Last updated: May 07, 2025