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One Bite of Tizen, May 2023 Standup

Jay Cho edited this page May 4, 2023 · 11 revisions

How to start Tizen

You need 3 things in your hands

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  • Visual Studio 2022
  • Visual Studio Tools for Tizen
  • Tizen SDK

Installing Visual Studio Tools for Tizen

Visual Studio Tools for Tizen is a Visual Studio extension that helps the development of Tizen applications by linking the Visual Studio IDE with the Tizen SDK.

Take the following steps to install Visual Studio Tools For Tizen:

  1. In the Visual Studio menu, select Extensions > Manage Extensions.

  2. Click Online on the left menu and search "Tizen" in the search bar on the top-right corner.

  3. Download Visual Studio Tools for Tizen.

  4. Close Visual Studio, the installation will start automatically.

  5. When the VSIX installer window appears, click Modify. The install may take several minutes. When finished, Close the window.

Installing Tizen SDK

Tizen SDK is a collection of essential software tools for Tizen application development. It includes:

  • Package Manager
  • Emulator Manager
  • Certificate Manager
  • Device Manager
  • ...

The following steps show how to install Tizen SDK through Visual Studio:

  1. Start Visual Studio. On the Visual Studio menu bar, select Tools > Tizen > Tizen Package Manager. Tizen SDK installer window will pop up shortly.

  2. Click Install new Tizen SDK, and click I Agree if you accept the license agreement.

  3. Set an empty folder path for Tizen SDK. Then, click Next to start the installation of Tizen SDK. It will take a few minutes.

    Warning: An unexpected error may occur if there is an empty space within the installation path of the SDK. Make sure there is no space in the path.
  4. If you can run the Tizen SDK tools on the Visual Studio menu bar Tools > Tizen, the installation is complete.

Installing TV emulator is provided under the Extension SDK tab.

For the CLI Lovers

Tizen Workload is at: https://github.com/Samsung/Tizen.NET/tree/main/workload/scripts

~$ Invoke-WebRequest 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Samsung/Tizen.NET/main/workload/scripts/workload-install.ps1' -OutFile 'workload-install.ps1'
~$ .\workload-install.ps1

Tizen Baseline SDK: http://download.tizen.org/sdk/Installer/Latest/

Next Up

How to set the TV to developer mode

https://developer.samsung.com/smarttv/develop/getting-started/using-sdk/tv-device.html