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

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.

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

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSzLDkNLkeE

Join the Qt for Tizen community at Google+.]]> http://tizentalk.com/2013/05/qt-for-tizen/feed/ 2 http://tizentalk.com/2013/05/qt-for-tizen/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tizentalk/~3/aiwn-vh18n0/ http://tizentalk.com/2013/05/havoks-project-anarchy-coming-to-tizen/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 13:49:16 +0000 reggie http://tizentalk.com/?p=1247 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:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=019bXJtNjWc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hhOVcDaUIk

INFRAWARE just unveiled their Polaris App Generator (PAG), a platform that can transform Android games and applications to seamlessly run on Tizen. It aims to to smoothly run Adroid apps on a diverse range of devices using Tizen.

INFRAWARE also plans to provide a publishing service for converted apps in the Tizen app store. Interested Android developers should collaborate with INFRAWARE with regards to app conversion and for help leveraging their apps in the Tizen ecosystem.

“INFRAWARE will support the new mobile operating system and its steady growth with our innovative technology and know-how,” said Min Cheol Kwak, CEO of INFRAWARE. “Also, with Tizen and other newly emerging mobile platforms, we are committed to exploring and promoting continuous growth in efficiency and market expansion opportunities for game and application developers through technology and service efforts which minimize their additional costs.”

INFRAWARE will provide more details at the 2013 Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco next month.

This is not the first time we’ve heard of running Android apps in Tizen. Sometime back OpenMobile World Wide Inc., announced a similar service called Application Compatibility Layer (ACL) (link).

Links: INFRAWARE Press Release

• Application development and deployment


• An Overview of the Tizen Native Application Framework
• Basics of HTML5 game development
• Cordova on Tizen Magnolia
• Developer Highlight Presentations: Native App Development for Tizen Devices
• Developer Highlight Presentations: Web App Development for Tizen Devices
• HAXM accelerates Tizen SDK emulator on Windows/Mac
• Highly portable HTML5 games on Tizen
• HTML5 features on Tizen
• Introduction of Tizen SDK minimal web development tools
• Making Tizen Native Apps with the Native UI Framework
• Migration of Existing WebApps to Tizen
• Porting existing PhoneGap apps to Tizen OS
• Porting iOS and Android Applications to Tizen
• Protecting JavaScript Source code in Web Runtime
• Social Platform Concept and Demo: beyond Tizen 2.x
• Tizen Design Guideline and User Experience
• Tizen supporting Enablers and Game Engines
• Tizen Web Device API Hands-On Lab
• Tizen. Using the Smart Approach to Attract Apps
• WebGL & WebSockets for 3D Multi-Platform Multiplayer Gaming
• Write Your “Angry Bird” Game on Tizen for Fun and Profit


• Platform and device development


• Accelerated HTML5 Rendering for the Tizen Platform
• Audio management for Tizen IVI
• Best Practice for Tizen Platform: from code to device
• Content Security Framework
• Experiences Developing a Wayland Based Tizen IVI HMI
• Fixing the leaking tap — power management enabling and tuning for IA Tizen phone
• Hardening WebKit2
• How to embrace wayland for tizen
• It May Be Simple But How Is It Useful, Smack Me Now
• Next generation BlueZ & Bluetooth Smart devices
• Performance optimization of Tizen Webkit: Memory and Graphics
• Rendering Quality in WebKit’s Open Source Graphics Stack
• Tizen Download & Go for IVI
• Tizen Input Service Framework Overview
• Tizen Telephony Framework in Tizen 2.1: what’s new?
• Tizen Web Runtime Update


• Tizen project, process, and progress


• Approach of In-Vehicle Infotainment development on open source software
• Security Analysis of Native Applications for the Tizen platform
• The Tizen Development Model
• Tizen Compliance Tests (TCT)
• Tizen Overview and Architecture
• Tizen Store introduction
• Tizen.org Web Infrastructure
• Web OS opportunities and challenges in China market

Tizen 2.0 Magnolia is now out of Alpha and its official release is now out! Ubuntu 32/62-bit, Windows 32/64-bit, and Mac OS X versions of the SDK and Source Code are now available for download.

Some of the impressive enhancements of the release include:

• Enhanced Web framework that provides state-of-the-art HTML5/W3C API support
• Web UI framework, including full-screen and multi-window support
• Additional Tizen device APIs, such as Bluetooth and NFC support, and access to the device’s calendar, call history, and messaging subsystems
• Web Runtime framework supporting new configuration elements for specifying the required features and privileges, and providing the basic runtime environment for NPRuntime plugins
• Native framework supporting full-featured application development and providing a variety of features such as background applications, IP Push, and TTS (Text-To-Speech)
• Core and native reference applications including Calendar, Contacts, Gallery, Phone, Settings, and Video Player
• 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

The release of Tizen 2.0 Magnolia is just in time for the Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco from May 22 to 24.

Check out the full list of changes in the release notes.

Links: Download | Official announcement

The second annual Tizen Developer Conference has been announced. As with last year, it will be held in San Francisco, from May 22 – 24, 2013. The venue will be at the Hilton Union Square.

Call for Papers/Proposals (CFP) are now open. Intended topics should be regarding Application Development and Deployment, Device/Product Development, and/or Tizen Project, Process, and Progress. The full list can be seen here. The deadline for proposals is on March 13, 2013.

Attendee registration is now open as well. Early Bird registration fee is $50. Registration after March 1st will be $99, up until the conference, and $150 onsite. There will be limited free passes for confirmed students. Travel support may also be available for qualified applicants.

Who’s going?

Link: Official announcement – Linux.com | 2013 Tizen Developer Conference Site

An official Tizen Developer forum is now up. If you have registered previously at the site, you can use the same login and post immediately at the forum. Feel free to post non-official Tizen topics at the Tizen Talk forum.

If I’m not mistaken, this is the third iteration of the Tizen logo — from a puffy font (and a genie), to blue diagonals, to a pinwheel. Anyone know what the pinwheel signifies?