README.md

Running AmazonKinesisVideoStreaming Sample

1. Create a user pool

• Go to https://console.aws.amazon.com/cognito/
• Click Manage your User Pools
• Click Create a user pool
• Fill-in Pool name
• Click Review defaults
• Click Create user pool
• Copy Pool Id 📋
• Select App clients in the left nav.
• Click Add an app client
• Fill-in App client name
• Click Create app client
• Click Show details and copy App client id and App client secret 📋
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2. Create an identity pool

• Go to https://console.aws.amazon.com/cognito/
• Click Manage Federated Identities
• Click Create new identity pool
• Fill-in Identity pool name
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• Under the heading Authentication providers, in the Cognito tab, fill-in the User Pool Id and App client id from the user pools step.
• Click Create create
• There will be details for 2 roles. Look at the one for authenticated identities and click Edit next to the policy document and your policy should look like this:

  {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cognito-identity:*",
            "kinesisvideo:*"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  

• Click Allow
• Copy the Identity Pool Id from the code snippets on the screen. 📋

3. Paste

• You will need all the information from the above steps that have 📋 and paste them into this file on your local copy awsconfiguration.json
• Change the region that the app will stream to by editing the KINESIS_VIDEO_REGION constant in your local copy of KinesisVideoDemoApp.java