> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://discord-platform-username.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Activity Development Guides Index

> Development guides for building Discord Activities with the Embedded App SDK.

These guides include suggested development practices, SDK commands, and user flows for you to consider while building your Activity. These will help to provide your users with a consistent and clear experience while interacting with your application.

## Local Development

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  <Card title="Run Your Application Locally" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/local-development#run-your-application-locally">
    Get up and running with a local development application.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Launch Your App from Discord" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/local-development#launch-your-application-from-the-discord-client">
    How to launch your app on mobile and desktop Discord clients.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Setup URL Mapping" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/local-development#url-mapping">
    Configure the Discord proxy to allow network requests to necessary external endpoints.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Logging" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/local-development#logging">
    How to use the various levels of logging while building your application.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## User Actions

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  <Card title="Open External Link" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/user-actions#open-external-link">
    Open an external link from within your app.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Open Invite Dialog" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/user-actions#open-invite-dialog">
    Open the Application Channel Invite dialog within Discord.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Open Share Moment Dialog" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/user-actions#open-share-moment-dialog">
    Open a dialog to share media from your application to a channel, DM, or GDM.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Setting Up an Entry Point Command" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/user-actions#setting-up-an-entry-point-command">
    Configure a command that allows users to open your Activity from the App Launcher.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Encourage Hardware Acceleration" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/user-actions#encourage-hardware-acceleration">
    Open a dialog to enable hardware acceleration for compute-intensive applications.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Mobile

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  <Card title="Supporting Mobile Platforms" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/mobile#supported-platforms-web-ios-android">
    Update your application settings to support iOS and Android.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Mobile Safe Areas" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/mobile#mobile-safe-areas">
    Ensure that your app's assets fall within mobile-safe areas.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Mobile Thermal States" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/mobile#mobile-thermal-states">
    Respond to thermal state changes surfaced from iOS and Android.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Layout

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  <Card title="Application Orientation" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/layout#application-orientation">
    Configure and subscribe to changes in application orientation.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Application Layout Mode" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/layout#application-layout-mode">
    Subscribe to layout mode changes to update your application's user interface.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Networking

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  <Card title="Activity Proxy Considerations" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/networking#activity-proxy-considerations">
    Working with our Activity Proxy
  </Card>

  <Card title="Construct a Full URL" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/networking#construct-a-full-url">
    Generate a full URL when working with network requests.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Using External Resources" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/networking#using-external-resources">
    Allow network requests to external resources from inside the Discord proxy.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Security Considerations" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/networking#security-considerations">
    Keep things safe and secure in your Activity.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Multiplayer Experience

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  <Card title="Instance Management" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/multiplayer-experience#activity-instance-management">
    Managing instances to ensure users join the same instance as their friends.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Instance Participants" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/multiplayer-experience#instance-participants">
    Use the SDK to fetch the users currently connected to an instance.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Render Avatars and Names" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/multiplayer-experience#render-avatars-and-names">
    Retrieve and render the usernames and avatars of users connected to your application.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Preventing Unwanted Activity Sessions" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/multiplayer-experience#preventing-unwanted-activity-sessions">
    Validating activity sessions are via a Discord client before adding them to an instance's session.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Growth and Referrals

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  <Card title="Prompting Users to Share Incentivized Links" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/growth-and-referrals#prompting-users-to-share-incentivized-links">
    Encourage your users to share links to your activity by adding tracking and offering rewards for engagement.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Creating and Managing Custom Incentivized Links" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/growth-and-referrals#creating-and-managing-custom-incentivized-links">
    For off-platform sharing of rewards, promotions, or limited time experiences.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Generating a Custom Link Within Your Activity" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/growth-and-referrals#generating-a-custom-link-within-your-activity">
    An API to be able to generate ephemeral links with a customizable embed.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Assets & Metadata

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  <Card title="Setting Up Activity Metadata" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/assets-and-metadata#setting-up-activity-metadata">
    Best practices for configuring how your application shows up in Discord.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Setting Up Art Assets" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/assets-and-metadata#setting-up-activity-art-assets">
    Best practices for configuring how your application shows up in Discord.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Rich Presence

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  <Card title="Integrating Rich Presence" href="/developers/rich-presence/using-with-the-embedded-app-sdk">
    Display live activity data on user profiles while they play your Activity.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Rich Presence Best Practices" href="/developers/rich-presence/best-practices">
    Design tips and a launch checklist for a polished Rich Presence integration.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Production Readiness

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  <Card title="Cache Busting" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/production-readiness#cache-busting">
    Manage asset caching in your application and the Discord Activity proxy.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Handling Rate Limits" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/production-readiness#handling-rate-limits">
    Stay within rate limits to keep the fun going in your Activity.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Static IP Addresses" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/production-readiness#static-ip-addresses">
    Network routing considerations when preparing your Activity for production use.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Backward Compatibility" href="/developers/activities/development-guides/production-readiness#backward-compatibility">
    Future-proof your application and support new commands as they become available in the SDK.
  </Card>
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