Last year saw the release of Tizen 2.3 of frustration for many developers. Without notice of support for OSP (the bada C - Framework) away and offered no suitable alternative. This' paradigm shift’ now ensures that many developers are stuck with their old code, because a migration tool or the like and there is not a manual port is associated with considerable effort.
Briefly, former bada developer must therefore probably start from scratch. Since Tizen 2.3 is set instead of OSP and C again exclusively on EFL and C for the development of native apps. This decision is based on the fact that C and EFL requires fewer resources and thus also for less powerful devices such as for example Wearables may be better suited. “Could” – because after as before, you can, for example, for the Gear smartwatches only in JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS development.
Whether the affected developers make their native now OSP Apps for Tizen 2.3 fit, may be doubted, as well as the rapid return of OSP in the Tizen project.
After all, the recently released Tizen SDK contains 2.3 Rev2 again a native UI Builder, so can be at least in a shorter time, the surface of the apps rebuild. Much of the app would then but still be virtually rewritten.
Also WebApp developers must make their existing apps for Tizen 2.3 fit. Samsung Apps which the Tizen Tizen web framework from the older version to use Suspend provided. Although an interface for backward compatibility in DEW (Tizen Advanced UI) has been integrated for WebApp developers, however, having to part changes to the HTML structure are made and also in JavaScript.
For us, it looks at the moment as if whether the Tizen Foundation or Samsung shoots in the foot with this decision a little self. “comprehensible”.
Authors: Marco Büttner & Patrick Mortara
