Category: Developers

blinkx App and Platform for Tizen

22 May 2013 reggie 0 Comments
blinkx

blinkx just announced a dedicated blinkx app as well as an open source blinkx Video Player for the Tizen community.

“We’re delighted to join Tizen in making this innovative operating system even more video-friendly for both app developers and users,” said S. Brian Mukherjee, CEO of blinkx. “By open sourcing our video player for Tizen developers, we look forward to expanding further into the mobile video space.”

The blinkx app will replicate the look and feel of blinkx.com, giving access to over 35 million hours of online video and over 800 media partnerships.

For Tizen mobile app developers, blinkx has developed an open source HTML5 video player to help incorporate a fully-functional video player into their apps. The lightweight and easy-to-use code allows developers to build a single- or multi-video player experience with their own videos in multiple formats.

More info at http://www.blinkx.com/tizen

Tizen Developer Tools v13.04 Released

22 May 2013 reggie 0 Comments

In time for the 2013 Tizen Developer Conference this week, Tizen.org just announced the release of the Tizen Developer Tools (v13.04). The new release includes version upgrades to the Git Build System (gbs 0.16), MIC Image Creator (mic 0.19), and Block Map (bmap-tools 2.3).

Enhancements details:

gbs 0.16

  • introduce new subcommand ‘createimage/cr’, to create image using ks file
  • performance optimization:
    • put all build roots in a individual directory, which can be mounted as tmpfs to speed up building, based on our experimental build time can save 50%. We used 800 Tizen packages as test data, without tmpfs, gbs spent about 5 hours to build all packages, but with tmpfs enabled, only 2h, 25mins spent
    • avoid export multiple times for packages contain multiple spec files
    • refine createrepo by using –update to speed up
  • bug fixes
  • release notes

mic 0.19

  • introduce ‘–part-type’ to handle GPT partition
  • copy bmap creation from bmap-tools
  • update some depends and fix depends issue
  • bug fixes
  • release notes

bmap-tools 2.3

  • Add bmap file SHA1 checksum into the bmap file itself in order to improve robustness of bmaptool
  • Re-structure the bmap file layout
  • Make the test-suite work on btrfs
  • details release

Install docs can be found here.

Tizen 2.1 Nectarine SDK and Source Code Released

18 May 2013 reggie 1 Comment

Nectarine flower

Just in time for the 2013 Tizen Developer Conference, Tizen.org just released Tizen 2.1, codenamed “Nectarine”.

Dubbed as a “minor release”, changes include:

  • Enhanced Web framework that provides state-of-the-art HTML5/W3C API support including new features, such as Content Security
  • Policy 1.0 and Navigation Timing, and relevant specification updates
  • Web DynamicBox runtime framework supporting the embedding of Web DynamicBox in viewer-like applications (e.g., home screen application)
  • Enhanced Web IDE providing WYSIWYG design environment, Chrome-based JavaScript inspector, and JavaScript log viewer
  • Native IDE providing a project wizard, WYSIWYG design environment, unit test tool, and dynamic analyzer

Check out the full list of changes in the Tizen 2.1 release notes. SDK installation instructions are here. Device flashing instructions are here.

Lakspur to Magnolia to Nectarine. Can anyone guess the next flower release — maybe Orchid? :)

Source: Tizen.org
Photo Credit: Ricardo Martins

Qt for Tizen

09 May 2013 reggie 2 Comments

It looks like Qt is unofficially making its way to Tizen. A Qt for Tizen page has just been created in the Qt wiki encouraging the community to help port Qt 5 to Tizen.

Tomasz Olszak is off to a great start, posting a video of Qt 5 running on the Tizen 2.1 Emulator. Check it out:

Join the Qt for Tizen community at Google+.

Havok’s Project Anarchy Coming to TIZEN

08 May 2013 reggie 0 Comments

Havok just announced that their free C++-based Project Anarchy gaming platform will be making its way to Tizen. Havok plans to optimize the full range of Project Anarchy technology for Tizen — Havok Vision Engine, Havok Physics, Havok Animation Studio and Havok AI.

“We’re thrilled to be on the ground floor with a highly robust game engine that will enable mobile developers to push the technology boundaries of Tizen to deliver highly compelling game play.” said David Coghlan, Managing Director at Havok.

Havok will be doing live demos at the Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco, May 22 – 24, 2013. The Tizen-optimized build of Project Anarchy will be available for developers sometime Q3 of 2013.

Check out a demo of Havok’s Project Anarchy on ARM Mali at GDC 2013:

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