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New documentation page for Android AppSync Events Library

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@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ const addVersions = (code: string) => {
/ANDROID_AUTHENTICATOR_VERSION/g,
versions.ANDROID_AUTHENTICATOR_VERSION
);
code = code.replace(
/ANDROID_APPSYNC_SDK_VERSION/g,
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Can we choose a different value for this variable, it is too similar to the AppSync SDK for Android.

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AWS AppSync SDK for Android is not on this docs site. I'd be hesitant to name this any different, as its not all events specific.


AWS AppSync Events lets you create secure and performant serverless WebSocket APIs that can broadcast real-time event data to millions of subscribers, without you having to manage connections or resource scaling. With this feature, you can build multi-user features such as a collaborative document editors, chat apps, and live polling systems.

Learn more about AWS AppSync Events by visiting the [Developer Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/appsync/latest/eventapi/event-api-welcome.html).

## Install the AWS AppSync Events library
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Title should be inside the filter or other platforms will have an empty section

* `userPool` authorization, **AuthTokenAuthorizer**

You can create as many Events clients as necessary if you require multiple authorization types.
#### API KEY
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Please make sure all the section headers have a blank line before and after.

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I don't think markdown cares about this. It doesn't add additional space as far as I can see, but I will make the change


#### AMAZON COGNITO USER POOLS

```kotlin
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Should there be a sentence before the code block here (and for the IAM one) explaining what the authorizer does (get tokens from Amplify's Auth category)?

// highlight-start
// Use your own token fetching. This function may be called many times,
// so it should implement appropriate caching internally.
val authorizer = AuthTokenAuthorizer {
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We can remove this example given this is the "with Amplify" section.

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Thats fair. There would be no reason to implement their own at that point.

// Write your own IAM signing.
// Provide an implementation of the signing function. This function should implement the
// AWS Sig-v4 signing logic and return the authorization headers containing the token and signature.
val authorizer = IamAuthorizer { appSyncRequest -> signRequestAndReturnHeaders(appSyncRequest) }
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We can remove this example given this is the "with Amplify" section.

#### Publish a Single Event
```kotlin
val restClient: EventsRestClient // Your configured EventsRestClient
// List of kotlinx.serialization.json.[JsonElement, JsonPrimitive, JsonArray, JsonObject]
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Should not say "List" here

Comment on lines 587 to 588
publishResult.successfulEvents // inspect successful events
publishResult.failedEvents // inspect failed events
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Here (and elsewhere) it might be better to say

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publishResult.successfulEvents // inspect successful events
publishResult.failedEvents // inspect failed events
val successfulEvents = publishResult.successfulEvents // inspect successful events
val failedEvents = publishResult.failedEvents // inspect failed events

Otherwise it just kind of looks weird to have the property accessors not used for anything.

// See throwable for cause
}

// The subscription is not sent until the Flow<EventMessage> is collected.
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Instead of collected it just has to have a terminal operator called. For example if you call first() then it'll establish a subscription and then immediately unsubscribe after the first event is received.

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You could say that subscribe returns a cold flow and that the subscription is established when a terminal operator is invoked.

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