Tizen- An open source, standards-based software platform

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Tizen

The open-source Smartphone Operating System

Tizen is an open source, standards-based software platform supported by leading mobile operators, device manufacturers, and silicon suppliers for multiple device categories, including smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle infotainment devices, smart TVs, and more. Tizen offers an innovative operating system, applications, and a user experience that consumers can take from device to device.
The Tizen project resides within the Linux Foundation and is governed by a Technical Steering Group. The Technical Steering Group is the primary decision-making body for the open source project, with a focus on platform development and delivery, along with the formation of working groups to support device verticals.
The Tizen Association has been formed to guide the industry role of Tizen, including gathering of requirements, identification and facilitation of service models, and overall industry marketing and education.
Tizen provides a robust and flexible environment for application developers, based on HTML5. With HTML5's robust capabilities and cross platform flexibility, it is rapidly becoming the preferred development environment for mobile apps and services. The Tizen SDK and API allow developers to use HTML5 and related web technologies to write applications that run across multiple device segments.
The Tizen application programming interfaces are based on HTML5 and other web standards.

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Community

The Tizen community is made up of all of the people who collectively work on or with Tizen:

• Product contributors: kernel/distribution developers, release managers, quality assurance, localization, etc.
• Application developers: people who write applications to run on top of Tizen
• Users: people who run Tizen on their device and provide feedback
• Vendors: companies who create products based on Tizen
• Other contributors: promotion, documentation, and much more

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Anyone can contribute by:

• Submitting patches
• Filing bugs
• Documenting Feature requests
• Developing applications
• Helping with wiki documentation
• Participating in other community efforts and programs

Membership in most project teams (Release Engineering, QA, Program Management, etc.) is invite-only and will mainly be open to people at companies who are building products based on Tizen. However, Community Office, Localization, and some Middleware development teams will be open to participation on a merit basis.

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The Tizen SDK

The Tizen SDK provides you with the essential tools and images to begin development.
Download the Tizen SDK

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Getting Started

Learn the application development process with step-by-step instructions including SDK basics.
Developing your first Tizen application

Tizen Source

Find all Tizen components and explore the Tizen source code.
Source Code

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Join the Tizen Community

The Tizen community is made up of all the people who collectively work on or with Tizen. Come and get involved.
More about the Tizen Community

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Source Code Available for Tizen 2.0 Alpha

The source code for the Tizen 2.0 Alpha has been released. This release is targeted towards smartphones and runs on the PC emulator and an ARM-based reference device. This release allows OEMs to begin considering Tizen 2.0 for their commercial devices, and open source developers to look into Tizen to find what they can improve and contribute.
Tizen provides a standards-based software platform for multiple device categories, which supports Web applications. The API reference provides a comprehensive description for application development.
For information on how to obtain the source code and start platform development, visit our
Developer Guide.

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Devices

Tizen is an open source, standards-based software platform for multiple device categories, including smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle infotainment devices, smart TVs, and more. Tizen offers an innovative operating system, applications, and a user experience that consumers can take from device to device.

Smartphones

Tizen smartphone technologies include a flexible and powerful user interface, 3D window effects, advanced multimedia, location based service frameworks, sensor frameworks, and multi-tasking and multi-touch capabilities. In addition, support for scalable screen resolution means that the platform can deliver a consistent user experience across a broad range of handset types and form factors.

Tablets

Tizen offers a touch-optimized user interface for tablets with a suite of built-in applications for Web browsing, personal information management, and media consumption.

Netbooks

Tizen will provide expanded features, improved performance, and a richer user experience for netbooks. Tizen is a light-weight, scalable, fast-booting, brand-able operating system, with advanced support for touch and connectivity.

In-Vehicle Infotainment

In-Vehicle infotainment systems are devices that deliver navigation, entertainment, and networked computing services in vehicles, such as cars, trucks, planes, and buses. The Tizen In-Vehicle infotainment software platform is designed to enable rich internet and multimedia consumer experiences for vehicles.

Smart TV

Tizen for Smart TV delivers a complete, open standards-based Linux stack, optimized for living room devices, such as Blu-ray players, set top boxes, and digital TVs. It is designed for an Internet-connected TV experience, allowing users to enjoy access to multiple applications, services, and personal media, all while watching TV.

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Tizen Developer Conference

The first annual Tizen Conference engages and educates developers on Tizen technology and HTML5 app development for Tizen devices. This conference is for Tizen developers, app developers, platform designers, operators, OEMs, hardware vendors, software vendors, open source enthusiasts, and anyone engaged in Tizen. The Tizen conference will be hosted at the downtown Hyatt in San Francisco, CA on May 7-9th, 2012. You can view the full schedule online. Conference highlights Monday, May 7th, we will open registration at 12:00. There will be a welcoming reception from 15:00-18:00, with demos from our sponsor companies, and afterwards, dinner will be provided. There will be a 24-hour hacker lounge open during the conference, with many games (including werewolf), networking, quiet space, food, and drinks. Tuesday, May 8th, after a full day of sessions, we will host an offsite party for all conference attendees at The California Academy of Sciences.. This night will be filled with amazing exhibitions, great local foods, and bands. Interested in Tizen application development? Enter the Tizen Developer Contest before August 7th.

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For more information, visit Tizen Website Tizen.

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