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The Game Developers Conference, being held this year from March 14 to 18 in San Francisco, is the world’s largest annual event in the gaming industry. With some 26,000 gaming professionals on hand, GDC is the hot-bed for all the latest trends ... [More] , experiments and innovations in gaming—and Samsung is there, too.   This year, Samsung Electronics—in cooperation with Unity—is presenting an important development, bringing the popular and powerful Unity 3D game engine to Tizen. Visitors to the exhibition were able to try out the Tizen Unity demo for the Z1 and Z3 smartphones, as well as for Samsung Smart TV.   Through this powerful new tool, developers will be better able to create engaging, innovative games for the latest Tizen-powered devices.   Check out these photos of the Unity 3D game engine for Tizen in use at GDC 2016.     Samsung staff demonstrates the benefits of the Unity engine for app development on the Tizen platform at GDC 2016.   The Samsung TV Games and Samsung Mobile Z display booth at GDC 2016.       Images of a Unity-based car racing demo app being played on the Tizen platform. [Less]

We are pleased to announce that Tizen 2.4 SDK is now available including support of the Tizen 2015 UX (new winset and style) and over 3,000 new APIs. Tizen 2.4 SDK is now available on the SDK download page.   Highlights of this release include, among ... [More] other improvements: Tizen 2015 UX Rich winsets and styles New Tizen Reference Apps (such as Browser, Music Player, and Calendar) New Features Application Background Policy to restrict CPU resources for background application processes Application Resource Manager to support applications for multiple screen resolutions Maps Service to support Geocode, Place Discovery, and Route Calculation Sync Manager to schedule server access time for applications to synchronize data between a server and device Service Adaptor (for Cloud Storage) to access a remote storage as a local device DALi for light-weight rendering based on OpenGL ES Smartcard and NFC HCE (Host Card Emulation) support to facilitate a Mobile Payment Service Enforced Security Over 3,000 new APIs are added, such as IME (Input method), Media vision, Event system, and Voice control   Please refer to the release notes for more details.   Tizen Technical Steering Group [Less]

We are pleased to announce that Tizen 2.4 SDK is now available including support of the Tizen 2015 UX (new winset and style) and over 3,000 new APIs. Tizen 2.4 SDK is now available on the SDK download page.   Highlights of this release include ... [More] , among other improvements: Tizen 2015 UX Rich winsets and styles New Tizen Reference Apps (such as Browser, Music Player, and Calendar) New Features Application Background Policy to restrict CPU resources for background application processes Application Resource Manager to support applications for multiple screen resolutions Maps Service to support Geocode, Place Discovery, and Route Calculation Sync Manager to schedule server access time for applications to synchronize data between a server and device Service Adaptor (for Cloud Storage) to access a remote storage as a local device DALi for light-weight rendering based on OpenGL ES Smartcard and NFC HCE (Host Card Emulation) support to facilitate a Mobile Payment Service Enforced Security Over 3,000 new APIs are added, such as IME (Input method), Media vision, Event system, and Voice control   Please refer to the release notes for more details.   Tizen Technical Steering Group [Less]

BY Technical Steering Group, 22 Sep 2015 We are pleased to announce that Tizen 2.3.1 source code is now available including support for the circular type wearable profile. Developers and manufactures may utilize Tizen to their wearable devices based ... [More] on this source code.   Highlights of this release include, among other improvements: Support web & native UI framework for wearable devices with a circular screen Custom event for the notifications on detected rotary detents Wearable native APIs for wearable native applications Extended web device APIs such as NFC APIs, sensor APIs and bluetooth APIs Watch project types More sample applications for the wearable profile   Please refer to the release notes for details. Tizen Technical Steering Group [Less]

BY Technical Steering Group, 22 Sep 2015 We are pleased to announce that Tizen 2.3.1 source code is now available including support for the circular type wearable profile. Developers and manufactures may utilize Tizen to their wearable devices based ... [More] on this source code.   Highlights of this release include, among other improvements: Support web & native UI framework for wearable devices with a circular screen Custom event for the notifications on detected rotary detents Wearable native APIs for wearable native applications Extended web device APIs such as NFC APIs, sensor APIs and bluetooth APIs Watch project types More sample applications for the wearable profile   Please refer to the release notes for details. Tizen Technical Steering Group [Less]

We are pleased to announce the Tizen 3.0 first milestone release for TV and Mobile profiles. This milestone provides developers with the Tizen kernel, device drivers, middleware subsystems, and Web/Native APIs, necessary to develop future Tizen ... [More] compliant solutions and marks feature completion for the key features of Tizen 3.0 TV and Mobile profiles.   Key features integrated in this milestone include: 2.4 public API (both Native API and Web API) is backward-compatible with 3.0 TV and Mobile profiles. 64bit SoC is tested and verified with 3.0 TV and Mobile profiles. 3.0 TV and Mobile profiles support multi-user architecture for multi-user/single-login usage. New security architecture: 3 domain smack and Cynara Security server and privilege manager are replaced with the new components, security manager and Cynara respectively.  X server is replaced with Wayland at this version.  Webkit2 is replaced with Chromium-efl and core components interacting with the web engine are re-designed/re-implemented for the new WRT and browser. Buxton2 is introduced. Buxton2 provides secure configuration service based on Cynara and is re-implemented considering multi-user and recovery support. Iotivity 0.9.2 is integrated into 3.0 TV and Mobile profiles. Generic policy manager, murphy, is integrated into 3.0 platform.  Linux kernel 4.0 is provided.   Please refer to the release notes for more details.   Tizen Technical Steering Group [Less]

We are pleased to announce the Tizen 3.0 first milestone release for TV and Mobile profiles. This milestone provides developers with the Tizen kernel, device drivers, middleware subsystems, and Web/Native APIs, necessary to develop future Tizen ... [More] compliant solutions and marks feature completion for the key features of Tizen 3.0 TV and Mobile profiles.   Key features integrated in this milestone include: 2.4 public API (both Native API and Web API) is backward-compatible with 3.0 TV and Mobile profiles. 64bit SoC is tested and verified with 3.0 TV and Mobile profiles. 3.0 TV and Mobile profiles support multi-user architecture for multi-user/single-login usage. New security architecture: 3 domain smack and Cynara Security server and privilege manager are replaced with the new components, security manager and Cynara respectively.  X server is replaced with Wayland at this version.  Webkit2 is replaced with Chromium-efl and core components interacting with the web engine are re-designed/re-implemented for the new WRT and browser. Buxton2 is introduced. Buxton2 provides secure configuration service based on Cynara and is re-implemented considering multi-user and recovery support. Iotivity 0.9.2 is integrated into 3.0 TV and Mobile profiles. Generic policy manager, murphy, is integrated into 3.0 platform.  Linux kernel 4.0 is provided.   Please refer to the release notes for more details.   Tizen Technical Steering Group [Less]

We are pleased to announce that Tizen 2.3.1 SDK is now available including support for the circular type wearable profile. Tizen 2.3.1 SDK is now available on the SDK download page.   Highlights of this release include, among other improvements: ... [More] Support web & native UI framework for wearable devices with a circular screen Custom event for the notifications on detected rotary detents Wearable native APIs for wearable native applications Extended web device APIs such as NFC APIs, sensor APIs and bluetooth APIs Watch project types More sample applications for the wearable profile Please refer to the release notes for details.   Tizen Technical Steering Group [Less]

We are pleased to announce that Tizen 2.3.1 SDK is now available including support for the circular type wearable profile. Tizen 2.3.1 SDK is now available on the SDK download page.   Highlights of this release include, among other improvements: ... [More] Support web & native UI framework for wearable devices with a circular screen Custom event for the notifications on detected rotary detents Wearable native APIs for wearable native applications Extended web device APIs such as NFC APIs, sensor APIs and bluetooth APIs Watch project types More sample applications for the wearable profile Please refer to the release notes for details.   Tizen Technical Steering Group [Less]

PUBLISHED 6 July 2015 A new release of Tizen 2.3 SDK (Rev3) is now available with a bug fix in tpk compression tool. Please refer to the SDK download page and the release notes of the Tizen 2.3 SDK for more details. Fixed Bugs Native IDE The ... [More] compression library issue making the tpk size too big due to the defective compression has been fixed. Invalid file permission issue when unzip the tpk has been fixed. This issue can cause the application is rejected due to signing failure from Tizen seller site. Tizen Technical Steering Group [Less]