Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Release mobile platform Tizen 2.0


Saw the light of the second stable release of the mobile platform Tizen, which continues to develop systems MeeGo and LiMO, but differs in the use of Web API and web-based technologies (HTML5/JavaScript/CSS) to create mobile applications.

Tizen platform developed under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, with the participation of LiMo Foundation, Intel and Samsung. The platform is universal and suitable for use on various types of mobile devices, including smartphones, tablets, netbooks, TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems.

The release is only available in source form, on which you can prepare yourself for the assembly of various devices. To facilitate the formation of assemblies supported repository of binary packages, as well as a reference assembly to run in the emulator. As standard equipment for which checks the work platform used Samsung Galaxy S2 HD and Samsung Galaxy S3. Simultaneously for mobile application developers released Tizen SDK package 2, which includes a development environment based on Eclipse, phone emulator based on QEMU, documentation, sample applications, tools and components for building software. SDK available for the platforms Linux (Ubuntu), Windows and Mac OS X.


Mobile application developers the opportunity to use HTML5 technology to create cross-platform applications work equally well on a wide range of devices, without the need to build individual versions for each of the hardware and software platform. Web API platform Tizen formed using both the known web-standards and HTML5-technology and advanced interfaces for device management. Within the Web API developers provided the means for creating full mobile application with comparable functionality to programs for other mobile platforms. To create games and graphics applications are encouraged to use WebGL. Running applications written in low-level languages ​​such as C and C + +, is provided by Native Framework.

Key enhancements that were added after the Tizen 1.0: http://softline.blog.com/release-tizen-2-0-key-features/

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