bada Premium Support Service und Remote Test Lab werden eingestellt

Wie in mehreren Mails an Entwickler angekündigt hat Samsung Heute den Premium Support für bada-Entwickler eingestellt. Dieser wurde einst ins Leben gerufen um bada-Entwicklern Unterstützung bei der Entwicklung von Apps zu geben und so schneller ein lebendiges Ökosystem für bada zu erhalten. Weiterlesen

Samsung RD-PQ, WLAN und 3D-Grafik

Wer zum Beispiel im Rahmen des Samsung Port-a-thons ein Samsung RD-PQ Tizen Referenz Gerät bekommen hat wird unter Umständen feststellen, dass sich damit out-of-the-box kein WLAN nutzen lässt und nach dem Start des Geräts immer eine Warnung erscheint, dass keine Hardware-Beschleunigung für 3D-Grafik zur Verfügung steht.  Weiterlesen

Tizen App Challenge startet im Juni

Neben dem von Samsung veranstalteten Tizen Port-a-Thon startet im Juni ein weiterer Wettbewerb für Tizen App Entwickler, die Tizen App ChallengeZu gewinnen gibt es Geldpreise von 30’000 bis zu 200’000 US-Dollar, verteilt auf 54 Gewinner. Zusätzliche Gewinne in Höhe von 50’000 Dollar gehen an die 10 bestplatzierten HTML5 Apps. Die Gesamtsumme der Preisgelder beträgt 4 Millionen US-Dollar. Teilnehmen darf, so wie es im Moment aussieht, wohl jeder. Ab dem 3. Juni können Apps angemeldet werden, Anmeldeschluß ist der 1. Oktober 2013, die Gewinner werden Anfang November bekanntgegeben.

Tizen Support für Unity-Engine in Vorbereitung

Eigentlich hätte diese News noch gut in unseren letzten Artikel gepasst, aber dazu haben wir sie zu spät entdeckt. David Helgason von Unity-Technologies hat durchblicken lassen, dass die Unity-Engine bald auch in der Lage sein wird Tizen Apps zu bauen (Quellen hier und hier). Helgason attestiert Tizen großes Potential und sieht viele Gemeinsamkeiten mit Unity selbst. Fertigstellung der Tizen Build Tools für Unity ist für Ende 2013 angedacht. Weiterlesen

Unity Engine jetzt kostenlos auch für Mobilsysteme

Die kostenlose Basisversion der Unity Game Engine ist jetzt ab sofort in der Lage, auch Apps für iOS und Android zu erstellen. Diese Möglichkeit stand zuvor nur als kostenpflichtige Option zur Verfügung, welche mit mindestens 800 US-Dollar zu Buche schlug. David Helgason begründet diesen Schritt in einem Blog Artikel, inklusive Video, damit, dass es schon immer das Ziel von Unity war, so vielen Menschen wie möglich die nötigen Werkzeuge für Spieleentwicklung zu geben. Weiterlesen

Tizen Design Guides online

In San Fransisco ist derzeit die zweite Tizen Conference noch bis morgen im vollen Gang. Nun gibt es auch diverse Design Guides für Entwickler. Neben allgemeinen Tipps und Richtlinien gibt es auch Empfehlungen für diverse Verhalten der App.

Die Guidelines sind direkt auf der Startseite der Tizen Developer Seite auffindbar oder hier

Tizen SDK und Source Code in Version 2.1 erschienen

Vor kurzem haben wir noch über die Beta-Version von Tizen 2.1 berichtet. Seit heute gibt es für die unter dem Codename „Nectarine“ veröffentlichte Version das finale SDK und den passenden Source-Code.

Einige Neuerungen haben wir kurz bereits im Beta-Artikel vorgestellt. Nun folgt auch der vollständige Changelog.

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Tizen Platform

Web Framework

New Features

  • HTML5 / W3C
    • Security
      • Content Security Policy 1.0
        • This policy language provides the declaration of a set of content restrictions for Web resources, and a mechanism for transmitting the policy from a server to a client when the policy is enforced
    • Performance and Optimization
      • Navigation Timing
        • This API provides an interface for Web applications to access timing information related to navigation and elements
  • Web Runtime
    • Web AppWidget runtime framework to enable embedding of Web AppWidgets in viewer applications (for example, the Home screen). The supported features include:
      • Web AppWidget installation and uninstallation
      • Web AppWidget configuration extensions
      • Web AppWidget execution and life-cycle management
    • Configuration extension updates
      • The „package“ attribute in the <tizen:application> element to specify the package ID

Changed Features

  • For Tizen Web API change details, see Tizen API Change Notes.
  • HTML5/W3C
    • Reference documentation unified as a single document in accordance with the specification changes:
      • CSS 2D Transforms and CSS 3D Transforms Module Level 3 to CSS Transforms
    • Specification version updateNote: If you have developed Web applications based on the previous Tizen versions (including 2.0) of the following specifications, you MUST check whether the corresponding features are available in the updated version of the specifications referred to in this release.
      • DOM, Forms, and Styles
        • HTML5 Forms (Partial) – The formnovalidate content attribute of the form element is not supported
        • CSS Transforms
        • CSS Animations Module Level 3
        • CSS Transitions Module Level 3 (Partial)
        • CSS Multi-column Layout Module (Partial) – The column, avoid-page, and avoid-column values of the break-before and break-after properties, and the avoid-page and avoid-column values of the break-inside property are not supported
      • Device
        • Touch Events version 1 (Partial)
        • The Screen Orientation API
        • The Network Information API
      • Graphics
        • HTML5 The canvas element (Partial) – The toBlob method of the HTMLCanvasElement interface is not supported
        • HTML Canvas 2D context (Partial) – The scrollPathIntoView method of the CanvasRenderingContext2D interface is not supported
      • Media
        • HTML5 The video element (Partial) – The videoTracks attribute of HTMLMediaElement and the abort event are not supported
        • HTML5 The audio element (Partial) – The audioTracks attribute of HTMLMediaElement and the abort event are not supported
        • Web Audio API (Partial)
          • The computedValue attribute of the AudioParam interface is not supported
          • The SOUNDFIELD enum string constant value of the PanningModelType enum for the panningModel attribute is not supported
    • Update to method, attribute, and constructor support
      • DOM, Forms and Styles
        • Selectors API Level 2 (Partial) – The matchesSelector method (Element interface) is not supported
      • Storage
        • File API: Writer (Partial) – The FileSaver interface and saveAs method (Window interface) are not supported
      • UI
        • Clipboard API and Events – The ClipboardEvent interface constructor is not supported
  • Web UI Framework
    • The following widgets are newly introduced:
      • Gallery 3D
      • Split View
    • The APIs of the following widgets are updated:
      • Fast Scroll
      • Token Text Area
      • Progress
      • Multimedia View
      • Virtual Grid
  • Tizen Web APIsThe following APIs are newly introduced or updated:
    • Bookmark
    • DataControl
    • DataSync
    • MessagePort
    • Notification
    • Package
    • Push
    • SecureElement
    • SystemInfo

Native Framework

New Features

Changed Features

  • For Tizen native API change details, see Tizen API Change Notes.
  • Tizen::App
    • AppControl
      • Phone AppControl is split into Phone and Call
      • The AppControl argument is changed, but the previous argument is still supported
    • GetInstanceByAppId() privilege level is changed from Partner to Platform
  • Tizen::Ui
    • The client size of the Tizen::Ui::Controls::Popup control has changed to remove unnecessary left and right margins of 20 pixels
    • The height of the Tizen::Ui::Controls::MessageBox and Tizen::Ui::Controls::ProgressPopup controls is no longer variable according to the length of the body text
    • Indicator height is reduced in the landscape mode to provide more content area. Therefore, client bounds of the Tizen::Ui::Controls::Form control changes in the landscape mode. When the indicator is made translucent while in the landscape mode, it becomes completely transparent. The indicator and Form behavior for the portrait orientation has not changed.
    • The UI control deleting order has changed. UI controls were being deleted from parent to child, but in Tizen version 2.1, they are deleted from child to parent.
    • It is recommended to use „.#.png“ for extension of a nine patch image. If the extension is not „.#.png“, a bitmap which is loaded by the GetBitmapN() method and the UI Builder tool is not represented as a nine patch.
    • Scene management
      • User input is disabled on scene transition animations
      • The RegisterScene() method returns the exception to prevent duplicated form IDs on different form scenes

Known Issues

  • Tizen::App
    • AppControl
      • The PICK operation of the MusicPlayer application control is supported only on the target device
      • Video call is not supported for the Call application control
  • Tizen::Graphics
    • Graphics
      • The Tizen SDK adopts font resources with open source license, therefore, some rarely used glyphs are missing
    • 3D graphics
      • OpenGL® ES
        • To create an egl window surface for Tizen::Ui::Controls, the width of the control has to be an even number
        • When a GL application runs with HW Acceleration enabled in the Emulator, the rendering results are flipped along y-axis
  • Tizen::Io
    • MessagePort
      • Sending ByteBuffer values to a Web application through the RemoteMessagePort::SendMessage() method is not supported for native applications
  • Tizen::Locales
    • Number formatting has known issues when saved number strings with a decimal point or thousands separator are handled after the locale setting has changed
  • Tizen::Locations
    • If the current locale, time zone, or time is changed after region monitoring is enabled, the location provider does not always notify of the region change
  • Tizen::Media
    • The camera preview or video is not shown if the height is longer than width when the H/W acceleration is off
    • The video frame that is rendered on the screen at the end of a stream or when the Player::Stop() method is called can differ depending on the device model and the H/W acceleration mode
  • Tizen::Web
    • Web
      • The UI for the auto-complete feature does not work
      • To use a site supporting geolocation feature, enable the „Remember Preference“ check box when a confirm popup appears
    • JSON
      • The JSON parser is currently locale-dependent. It will be changed in a later revision to be locale-independent.

Core System

New Features

  • Reference Kernel
    • MFC (Multi Function Codec) firmware is added
    • Bluetooth
      • Supports encoding of 32/128 bit UUIDs is added
    • Camera
      • Supports 3264×2488 and 3264×1836 preview resolutions for RD-PQ
  • System
    • Systemd
      • As a system and service manager, systemd (v.43) is newly applied to the platform, replacing the System V init daemon
      • Parallelized service activation, on-demand socket and D-Bus activation for starting services and daemons, managing the service processes as a group using Linux cgroup, supporting automount points, snapshotting, and restoring of services are newly added
      • systemd coredump handler is disabled as the Tizen platform has its own crash debugging module
      • Supports SMACK labeling of FIFO and UNIX domain sockets used by systemd at runtime
      • In order to support backward compatibility of System V init, necessary features, such as „reboot parameter passing“ are added into systemd
    • Device-node
      • New module to control hardware devices. A tunnel between system framework and OAL (OEM Adaptation Layer), which accesses real device nodes. In addition, this module decides the permission of device nodes with which user can access.
  • Security
    • Smack
      • Full Smack support in kernel space including long label support, recursive transmute
      • Smack labels for platform core modules and sample Smack rule sets enabling apps to run properly

Changed Features

  • System
    • System V init daemon is removed and systemd is used as the service manager
    • Power manager
      • When a user or an application changes the brightness of display, the power manager daemon broadcasts the information to other applications
    • Device manager
      • Even in a low battery condition, changing the display brightness can be done
    • Feedback
      • All vibration files are combined to an XML file to reduce the size of binary. The XML file is implemented by base64 encoding schemes.
    • Vibrator
      • When a vibration effect is created, its magnitude can be set
    • Sys-Assert
      • Debug mode is enabled
  • dlog
    • In the logging mode, the platform log turns on or off conditionally

Supported Devices

Features

  • Emulator
    • The Emulator is an x86-based Qemu image which can be run on computers
    • Preloaded applications:
      • Reference Core applications
        • Home and Lock
      • Reference native applications
        • Calculator, Calendar, CalendarService, Camera, Clock, Contacts, Email, Gallery, ImageViewer, Internet, Memo, Messages, MusicPlayer, MyFiles, Phone, Settings, and VideoPlayer
      • Home and Lock applications can be changed from reference core applications to reference native applications with the build configuration
      • All reference native applications can be changed from reference native applications to reference core applications with the build configuration
  • Reference target devices
    • The reference target devices are designed based on commercial target devices:
    • Ref.Device-210
      • Ref.Device-210 is a reference target based on Samsung Galaxy S2 HD
    • Ref.Device-PQ
      • Ref.Device-PQ is a reference target based on Samsung Galaxy S3
    • Preloaded applications:
      • Reference Core applications
        • Home, Calculator, Calendar, CalendarService, Camera, Clock, Contacts, Email, Gallery, ImageViewer, Memo, Messages, MusicPlayer, MyFiles, Phone, Settings and VideoPlayer
      • Reference native applications
        • Calculator, Calendar, CalendarService, Camera, Clock, Contacts, Email, Gallery, ImageViewer, Internet, Memo, Messages, MusicPlayer, MyFiles, Phone, Settings, and VideoPlayer

Supported Languages

  • The following languages are supported:
    • Arabic
    • Armenian
    • Azerbaijani
    • Basque
    • Bulgarian
    • Catalan
    • Chinese
    • Chinese(Singapore)
    • Chinese(HongKong)
    • Chinese(Taiwan)
    • Croatian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • English (US)
    • English (UK)
    • English (Philippines)
    • Estonian
    • Finnish
    • French
    • French (Canada)
    • Galician
    • Georgian
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hindi
    • Hungarian
    • Icelandic
    • Irish
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Kazakh
    • Korean
    • Latvian
    • Lithuanian
    • Macedonian
    • Norwegian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Portuguese(Brazil)
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Serbian
    • Slovak
    • Slovenian
    • Spanish
    • Spanish (Mexico)
    • Swedish
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Uzbek

Licenses

  • The following changes have been made in the licenses:
    • The term „Compatibility Definition Document“ in the Flora license and Tizen SDK License has been changed to „Tizen Compliance Specification“
    • The term „Compatibility Test Suites“ in the Flora license and Tizen SDK License has been changed to „Tizen Compliance Tests“
    • The Flora License 4.4 condition has been clarified regarding the licensee’s own copyright to derivative works or modifications

IDE and Tools

New Features

  • General
    • Design renewal
      • The Tizen pinwheel BI (Brand Identity) has been applied
      • A new delightful color scheme for icons, textures, and shapes has been applied
      • The application icon size has been increased from 108 to 117
    • „Keyboard Shortcuts“ menu added: a user can download Tizen IDE shortcuts in PDF format
      • Menu with a link to Tizen Web site added
  • Common Tools
    • Emulator
      • The following changes have been made in OpenGL® ES:
        • Support for the FBO extension for GLES1.1
        • Removal of SW mesa from the Tizen platform
      • systemd has been adopted for the Tizen platform booting
      • Sleep mode performance on Ubuntu® and Mac OS® X has been enhanced by removing redundant CPU usage
      • The orientation of the general purpose skin can be done with the skin indicator, which is by default located on the upper left corner and rotated along the skin
    • Emulator Manager
      • Checking the OpenGL® capability of host has been added to enable and disable GPU acceleration automatically
    • Event Injector
      • The following changes have been made:
        • Support for the user acceleration sensor
        • Support for the gravity sensor
        • Support for the orientation sensor
        • Support for the MMS sent status
        • UI enhancement for telephony messaging
        • Removal of toggle buttons (check boxes) from the 3-axis sensor
    • Install Manager
      • Supports command line interface (CLI) for installing or removing the SDK
      • Separates the „Minimal“ installation type into „Web Minimal“ and „Native Minimal“
      • Shows the installed size of the SDK packages
      • Supports styling scripting tags for component description
  • Web IDE and Tools
    • Configuration editor
      • Supports app-control operations on the Tizen tab
      • Supports app-widget settings on the Tizen tab
      • Supports account settings on the Tizen tab
      • Supports mouse events and touch effects on the AppWidget on the Tizen tab
      • Supports tools for icon production in the configuration editor
      • Changes the default required version from 1.0 to 2.1
    • Editors (HTML, JavaScript, and CSS)
      • Supports the code assist and privilege list for the add-on SDK
      • Changes the default mode of the HTML editor to the source mode
    • Building, running, and debugging
      • Supports NPPlugin packaging
      • Checks application ID validation during launch
      • Checks the architecture for a hybrid app before launch
      • Launching the application is canceled in case of existing errors in the „config.xml“ file
    • Application signing
      • Application signing is mandatory for launching
      • Checks validation of the certificate password in the Secure Profile before launching
    • Project Wizard
      • Updated template libraries to jQuery 1.8.2 and jQM 1.2.0
      • Updated Tizen Web UI Framework to 0.2.26
    • Preferences
      • Removed the API assist option
  • Web UI Builder
    • Programming model
      • Supports application life-cycle event handlers, such as on-show and on-hide
    • Properties view
      • Supports widget CSS style properties
    • WYSIWYG page design editor (Page Designer)
      • Supports absolute layout
      • Supports HTML block and common container widgets absolute layout
    • Advanced Declaration view
      • Support has been added
  • Web Simulator
    • API implementation
      • SystemSetting, Push, NetworkBearerSelection, and Package modules added
      • Various old modules updated according to a specification change, including Messaging, SystemInfo, Content, and Power
      • Supports system service of dialer and messaging added and manual callbacks from other applications and services enabled
      • config.xml parser updated (as per new schema)
    • UI enhancement
      • UI refinement
  • Native IDE and Tools
    • Building
      • New build configuration: Debug, Release, and Profile
      • New architecture: LLVM-Bitcode/X86 (experimental), LLVM-Bitcode/ARM (experimental)
    • Application signing
      • Application signing mandatory for launching
    • Running and debugging
      • Supports attach debugging
      • Supports Smart Launch
      • Supports „Enable update“ mode to test the Tizen Store update
      • Detailed error messages shown when the package is installed
    • Tools
      • Code coverage
        • Code coverage is supported for the LLVM toolchain
      • Unit Test
        • Changed to use the static gtest library
      • Native CLI supports multi-project application packaging
      • sdb
        • sdbd has the „developer“ privilege, so a user requiring root permission must use the „sdb root on“ command
        • The „sdb install“ command supports the Web package (*.wgt)
      • Rootstrap Manager removed (use the Platform SDK)
    • Dynamic analyzer
      • Feature configuration view is added
      • File chart information on the File analysis page is updated (see the manual)
  • Platform IDE
    • Supports local package repository
  • SDK Development Tools
    • The „build-cli changelog“ command for querying the change log is added
    • Supports the project lock preventing building
    • Shows the progress when registering packages
    • Supports the remote build option („–save“) of the „build-cli“ command to save build results in a local storage
    • Shows detailed log of remote jobs on DIBS WEB

Bugs Fixed

  • Web IDE
    • JSDT
      • Alerting the keyword error for „continue“ and „delete“ used as a property name of an object is fixed
      • Malfunction of the open declaration feature (for the position of creating an object with a constructor which has a declaration with parameters) is fixed
    • NPE at re-launching application after the first launch succeeded is fixed
    • Bugs for incremental signing are fixed
    • UI Builder project exception created by the user template is fixed
    • JSON Validator error is fixed
    • Hybrid app CLI is fixed
    • Various bugs related to templates are fixed
    • Template attribute (data-inline) is fixed
    • Movable header in the jQuery Mobile templates is fixed
    • The issue of not opening the configuration editor when there are errors in the file is fixed
    • Web-hybrid app CLI bug is fixed
    • Including generated signature files into deltaInfoList is fixed
    • Duplicated project location is checked when creating a new project
    • The „Google Chrome® settings in preferences“ problem is fixed

Known Issues

  • Common IDE
    • RDS (Rapid Development Support)
      • RDS is not supported in multi-process application projects
      • RDS is not supported in CLI tools
    • CLI (Command Line Interface)
      • The project path and Tizen SDK path are fixed when the project is generated. If you change the path, the project cannot be built.
  • Web IDE
    • The advanced Declaration view for JavaScript has several known issues due to JSDT-related bugs
    • The Lock function of the advanced Declaration view has been disabled because of a NullPointerException issue
    • Assignment tracing for JavaScript has several known issues:
      • If local variables are used as a method name in a method call expression, assignment tracing does not function
      • Incorrect activation occurs if the inner and outer methods are both anonymous
    • Web Simulator
      • Only a single application can run at a time
      • Modules not supported: DataControl, MessagePort, SecureElement, Bookmark, and DataSynchronization
      • Daylight saving time-related methods are not supported in the Time module
    • The „could not delete resources“ problem while building is fixed
    • An error can occur in the Web UI Builder template when you try to perform the clean and build action. This is a bug in the JavaScript Validator in Eclipse, and can be resolved as follows:
      1. Uncheck JavaScript Validator in the Builders section of the application properties.
      2. Delete errors in the Problems view.
      3. Clean and build the project again.
  • Native IDE
    • Unit test
      • Currently, the unit test is designed to support only functional testing
      • Unit Test application is not an OSP-based application. Therefore, some methods related with OSP application framework, such as methods of the Tizen::Base::String class, can behave incorrectly.
      • The Test Explorer does not work if the project files have not been changed. In this case, edit the code manually, build the project, and run it.
    • Valgrind
      • Valgrind profiling is only supported in the Emulator
  • Emulator
    • If you run the Emulator with Oracle Java® 1.7 or higher on Mac® OS, it may result in your host machine getting slower. If you run two or more Emulator VMs, Occasionally booting the Emulator does no work.
    • Your Ubuntu® desktop session can be occasionally logged out when launching the Emulator Manager, if you use NVIDIA® graphic card. In that case, install the latest driver directly from the NVIDIA® website.
    • OpenGL® ES acceleration can have problems in certain environments:
      • Windows XP/7 with Intel motherboard integrated card
      • Ubuntu 11.10 with Intel CPU/motherboard integrated card

      If this occurs, you can launch the Emulator by switching off the HW GL acceleration in the Emulator Manager. However, you cannot use any GL-related applications, such as a Web browser.

    • When you launch the Emulator on Windows®, you can get a „failed to allocate memory“ error. In that case, try the following:
      • Increase the user area of the virtual memory in the system to 3 GB by running the „bcdedit /set increaseuserva 3072“ command on the console with administrator rights (Windows® 7 only)
      • Close some other programs and try to launch the Emulator again
      • If you have set the RAM size as 768 or 1024 MB for the VM in the Emulator Manager, change the RAM size to 512 MB
    • Using the Emulator with SOCKS (SOCKet Secure) proxy on Mac OS® X can cause unexpected problems
    • You cannot play all video files that are linked in YouTube or other Web pages and require the browsers registered to them
    • The Emulator log file (emulator.log) can become too large if you run the Emulator for a long time
  • Dynamic analyzer
    • A screenshot is sometimes not taken if the screen or scene change is implemented using an animation technique
    • The analysis of the IME and Service Applications is not supported
  • Install Manager
    • A shortcut is not provided in Mac OS® X

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Das SDK kann hier heruntergeladen werden. Den Source-Code findet ihr hier.

Android Kontakte synchronisieren, ohne Google!

Eines der wohl komfortabelsten Features von Android ist die Möglichkeit, seine Kontakte über den Google Account zwischen mehreren Android Geräten zu synchronisieren. So hat man auf seinen Smartphones und Tablets immer die gleichen Daten zur Verfügung und spart sich lästiges doppelt pflegen. Der Haken daran ist aber, dass man dazu seine Daten einem Server von Google anvertrauen muss, über den man keine Kontrolle hat. Weiterlesen

Qt soll für Tizen portiert werden.

Das beliebte Open Source C++-Framework Qt soll in der Version 5 für Tizen portiert werden (Quelle). Qt stellt Programmierern eine Vielzahl von Funktionen, insbesondere zur Gestaltung von User-Interfaces (UI), zur Verfügung und wird in vielen bekannten Softwareprodukten verwendet (Weitere Infos hier).

Das Projekt wurde vor wenigen Tagen erst ins Leben gerufen, deshalb gibt es derzeit noch keinen Termin für eine erste funktionierende Version. Zu den drei Zielen des Projektes zählen

  • Portierung des Qt 5 Frameworks
  • Qt Creator Unterstützung
  • Tizen Look and Feel durch Qt Quick 2

Das Projekt sucht derzeit auch noch Unterstützer für dieses Vorhaben.