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On October 20-21 the second Tizen Developer Summit took place in Shanghai, where hundreds of Tizen developers, app developers, ISVs, platform designers, operators, OEMs, hardware vendors, software vendors, open source enthusiasts, partners and ... [More] students met at the Marriott Parkview Hotel. With near-capacity crowds, attendees got an overview of current and upcoming Tizen technologies and received hands-on tutorials and deep dives into the latest wearable software development kit. Hyogun Lee, executive vice president of Samsung and co-chair of Tizen Technical Steering Group, and Mark Skarpness, director of Systems Engineering in the Open Source Technology Center at Intel, kicked off the summit with a keynote in which they announced that Tizen would release Tizen 3.0 by the end of this year. This release promises, among other things, to enable profiles that will support multiple device types across the connected device ecosystem. In addition to platform news, other Tizen products such as the Tizen Smart TV were on display at the show, with launch dates expected in the near term. Demonstrations illustrated how users can control Tizen Smart TVs and home appliances, and additionally how to access real-time TV content using voice commands and Tizen wearables. Other news out of TDS included the continued success of the Tizen Association Partner Program, which grew to over 100 members across the app developer, operator and device maker markets with the addition of 16 new partners. The excitement and momentum around Tizen was evident throughout the developer community and within some of the most prominent Chinese companies. Liu Jun, vice president of Baidu, Xie Pingzhang, vice president of Tencent, and Yu Yongfu, CEO of the Mobile Business Group, UC and member of Alibaba Strategy Committee delivered a joint keynote at the event. The executives discussed the value of the Tizen platform and voiced their interest in adapting services and products to Tizen’s open source operating system to create a smart, connected consumer experience. Many attendees also entered a lucky drawing and were offered some Tizen-powered devices: Samsung Gear 2 smartwatches for Tizen wearable app development Intel-based Minnowboard MAX boards for Tizen:Common and Tizen IVI development Intel-based NUC systems for Tizen:Common and Tizen IVI development The Giveaway was sponsored by the Tizen Technical Steering Group, and meant to give developers access to the latest in high-performance wearable and ultra-compact form factor PC devices. What better way to celebrate free and open coding than with free, cool devices? Take a look at our Facebook album for more photos of #TDS14SH and make sure that you follow us on Twitter to stay up-to-date on the latest Tizen news and events.     [Less]

Tizen SDK for Wearable 1.0.0 is now available on the SDK download page. Tizen SDK for Wearable is a comprehensive set of tools for developing Tizen wearable applications. It consists of the Tizen wearable IDE, Emulator, tool-chain, sample ... [More] applications, and documentation. Tizen SDK for Wearable runs on Windows®, Ubuntu, and Mac OS® X. More information on the release can be found here: https://developer.tizen.org/downloads/sdk/release-notes/tizen-sdk-wearable-1.0.0. If developers want to develop corresponding applications with Tizen wearable applications using Samsung mobile devices, please visit Samsung Developers. (or http://developer.samsung.com/samsung-gear/) Tizen Technical Steering Group [Less]

We are pleased to announce that Tizen 2.3 Beta SDK is now available including support for the wearable profile.   Highlights of this release include, among other improvements: Native IDE for new native framework Dynamic analyzer : tool to analyze the ... [More] native application at runtime   Please refer to the release notes for details and download files from the below link. SDK Install Manager Download   http://download.tizen.org/sdk/InstallManager/tizen-sdk-2.3b/ ( CDN ) SDK Image Download   http://download.tizen.org/sdk/sdk-images/2.3b/ ( CDN )   Tizen Technical Steering Group [Less]

Tizen SDK for Wearable 1.0.0 Beta3 is now available on the SDK download page. Tizen SDK for Wearable is a comprehensive set of tools for developing Tizen wearable applications. It consists of the Tizen wearable IDE, Emulator, tool-chain, sample ... [More] applications, and documentation. Tizen SDK for Wearable runs on Windows®, Ubuntu, and Mac OS® X. More information on the release can be found here: https://developer.tizen.org/downloads/sdk/release-notes/tizen-sdk-wearable. If developers want to develop corresponding applications with Tizen wearable applications using Samsung mobile devices, please visit Samsung Developers. (or http://developer.samsung.com/samsung-gear/) Tizen Technical Steering Group [Less]

The Tizen Steering Group is pleased to announce the third platform milestone of Tizen 3.0 IVI. This milestone marks the first release of IVI based on the Tizen 3.0 Common code base. Tizen IVI is an open platform designed specifically for the ... [More] automotive market to accelerate open innovation, facilitate differentiation, benefit from mobile and consumer advances, enable common frameworks to lower the cost of software integration, and speed time to market of new services. Tizen is supported by leading mobile operators, auto makers, device manufacturers, and silicon providers. It is easily portable across a broad range of device categories including in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems. Tizen IVI is an automotive version of Tizen which utilizes open source innovations from consumer and mobile segments and includes several components and frameworks specific to automotive applications. Features integrated in this milestone include: 64-bit support for both Intel and ARM architectures Crosswalk-based web runtime Modello Sample UI Weston Rygel LMS GENIVI Layer Management Systemd Security: three-domain rule system for SMACK and Cynara as authorization framework Wayland display server To build this release, please refer to the All-In-One Instructions. Pre-built images for this milestone can be downloaded here. Please see the documentation page on flashing a device for information on installing this image.  We welcome your comments and feedback on the wiki pages and directly by discussion with the developers on the Tizen IVI mailing list. [Less]

Tizen Developer Conference Recap: New devices, profiles, developer tools and Internet of Things roadmap Today marked the closing of the third-annual TDC event in San Francisco. The event saw a record number of developers and media attendees witness ... [More] the official unveiling of the world’s first Tizen smartphone, the Samsung Z, set to launch in Q3 of 2014 in Russia. A number of other new device prototypes, software, device profiles and developer tools were also on display at the event. Highlights included: Keynote from the Tizen Technical Steering Group unveiling the Samsung Z smartphone—Imad Sousou of Intel and JD Choi of Samsung, co-chairs of the Tizen Technical Steering Group, kicked off the conference with the unveiling of the Samsung Z smartphone, which was demonstrated for the first time ever during the keynote and shortly thereafter in the TDC 2014 Tech Showcase. Tizen In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) 3.0—Tizen IVI 3.0 was displayed in a pair of automotive demonstrations featuring a Chevrolet Corvette and a Land Rover SUV. Leading up to TDC, Intel Corporation announced its Intel® In-Vehicle Solutions module, which is optimized to run Tizen IVI and is being used in development with several additional automotive manufactures. Tizen Smart Television Software Development Kit and Prototypes—Just prior to TDC 2014, Samsung announced the release of the Tizen SDK for Samsung smart televisions that allows developers to extend their native Tizen apps and HTML5 web apps to the television and Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. Samsung showcased Tizen TV prototypes at the event, including 65-inch curved screen and flat-screen models running the Tizen operating system. Connected Home and Fitness Demonstrations—Other Samsung demonstrations at the event included WiFi and Bluetooth connected devices managed by the Samsung Gear 2 and Gear Neo, including interactive control and management of connected lighting, vacuums, air conditioning units and entertainment systems. Tizen Partner Program Growth and Development—Tizen’s Partner Program continues to grow, with the announcement of 37 new partners leading up to the show. A number of Tizen partners had news announcements around the conference, including appbackr, Atooma and FocusMotion. TDC 2014 delivered a number of major announcements across the Tizen open source platform, creating momentum that the growing ecosystem will look to continue at the newly announced Tizen Developer Summit, slated for Shanghai, China. More details on TDS can be found here. [Less]

Tizen Steering Group is pleased to announce the first platform milestone of Tizen 3.0 Common.  As Tizen 2.0 did, Tizen 3.0 Common supports both IA and ARM architectures.  This milestone marks the feature completion for Tizen 3.0 Common.  Tizen 3.0 ... [More] Common is a common development / build / test platform for any upcoming features that may be needed by mobile, IVI, wearables, and other profiles. Its milestones will be released every quarter going forward. For more information, see https://source.tizen.org/release/tizen-common-milestones. Features integrated in this milestone include: 64-bit support for both Intel and ARM architectures Crosswalk-based web runtime Multiuser support Systemd Security: three-domain rule system for SMACK and Cynara as authorization framework Wayland display server To build this release, please refer to the developer guide. Pre-built images for this milestone can be downloaded from here. Please see the documentation page on flashing a device for information on installing this image.  We welcome your comments and feedback on the wiki pages https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Tizen_3.0 and directly by discussion with the developers on the tizen dev mailing list. [Less]

Tizen 2.3 Alpha source code is available, now including support for the wearable profile. Developers and manufactures may utilize Tizen to their wearable devices based on this source code. Highlights of this release include, among other improvements: ... [More] Performance improvement and more lightweight webkit as well as webkit version update BT LTE functions for wearable device connectivity such as privacy and peripheral role The source code for this release is available in Tizen's Git repositories (under the tizen_2.3 branch) and as for OBS project please refer to Tizen:2.3:Wearable project. In addition, Tizen 2.3 Alpha SDK for wearable application developers will be released soon at Tizen.org. Tizen Technical Steering Group [Less]

  We are pleased to announce that Tizen 2.3 Alpha source code and SDK are now available including support for the wearable profile.  Highlights of this release include, among other improvements: Performance improvement and more lightweight webkit ... [More] as well as webkit version update BT LE functions for wearable device connectivity such as privacy and peripheral role   Please refer to the release notes for details and download files from the below link. SDK Install Manager Download   http://download.tizen.org/sdk/InstallManager/tizen-sdk-2.3/ ( CDN ) SDK Image Download   http://download.tizen.org/sdk/sdk-images/2.3/ ( CDN )   The source code for this release is available in Tizen's Git repositories (under the tizen_2.3 branch) and as for OBS project please refer to Tizen:2.3:Wearable project.   Tizen Technical Steering Group [Less]

More Than a Thousand Developers and Tizen Platform Contributors will Converge on San Francisco to Learn About Tizen Profiles for Wearables, Consumer Electronics and Automotive During Three-Day Event The Tizen Developer Conference today announced its ... [More] 2014 conference agenda. The San Francisco-based show is taking place from June 2-4 and is expecting over a thousand developers. Hosted and produced by the Tizen Technical Steering Group with the support of a number of ecosystem partners, TDC is the world’s largest event focused exclusively on the growing developer ecosystem around the Tizen open source operating system for converged devices. This year, TDC’s schedule really illustrates how Tizen is becoming the operating system of everything. Highlights of this year’s event include: New Product Profiles and Platform Milestones—Developers attending this year’s event will see product demonstrations and presentations on emerging and established product profiles including a new Tizen SDK release for wearables, Tizen for Smart Televisions, and the new Tizen IVI 3.0. The TDC 2014 “Tech Showcase”—A demonstration showcase featuring the latest in commercial Tizen devices, prototypes, reference devices and software demos related to automotive, consumer electronics, wearables, mobile and other “Internet-of-Things” (IoT) related devices. Samsung Gear 2 smart watch and ultra-compact PC Intel® NUC Kit giveaways—Every registered attendee that comes to TDC will receive a free Samsung Gear 2 and an ultra-compact PC Intel NUC Kit to celebrate the growth of the Tizen developer and partner ecosystem, and the free and open nature of Tizen. Presentations by Mobile and IoT Thought Leaders—This year’s speakers include executives, technology evangelists and experts from Appbackr, Expedia, iControl, Intel, The Linux Foundation, Marmalade, OpenMobile, Samsung and Stanford University discussing application development and technology trends related to automotive, IoT, mobile, wearables and a number of other fast-growing market opportunities. Application developers, members of the media and analyst community, and other connected device ecosystem stakeholders can register for TDC 2014 here.  [Less]