Tizen SDK for Wearable 1.0.0b1 Release Notes

Tizen URL: https://www.tizen.org/ko/blogs/tsg/2014/tizen-sdk-wearable-1.0.0-beta1-release

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BY Technical Steering Group, 17 3월 2014

We are pleased to announce that Tizen SDK for Wearable 1.0.0 Beta1 is now available at  SDK download page.

 

Tizen SDK for Wearable is a comprehensive set of tools for developing Tizen wearable applications. It consists of the Tizen wearable IDE, Emulator, tool-chain, sample applications, and documentation. Tizen SDK for Wearable runs on Windows®, Ubuntu, and Mac OS® X.

If developers want to develop corresponding applications with Tizen wearable applications using Samsung mobile devices, please visit Samsung Mobile SDK. (or http://developer.samsung.com/samsung-mobile-sdk/...)

 

For more information, please refer to the release notes.

 

Tizen Technical Steering Group

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Introduction

Welcome to Tizen SDK for Wearable.

The Tizen Software Development Kit (SDK) for Wearable is a comprehensive set of tools for developing Web applications and the platform component for wearable device. The SDK contains an install manager, IDE, tools, documents, samples, and a platform image.

API Information

Web framework

Provides a complete implementation of the Web API optimized for wearable devices. It includes WebKit, a layout engine designed to enable web browsers to render web pages. It also provides a runtime for web applications. Its features include:

• W3C/HTML5 specifications support:
  • DOM/Media/Graphics: HTML5 audio/video element, HTML5 Forms (Partial), Session History API, DOM/JS related HTML5 Enhancements, iframe sandbox attribute, HTML5 2D Canvas
  • CSS3: CSS3 2D Transforms (H/W Accelerated), CSS3 3D Transforms (H/W Accelerated), CSS3 Animations (H/W Accelerated), CSS3 Transitions (H/W Accelerated), CSS3 Colors, CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders (Partial), CSS3 Flexible Box Layout (Partial), CSS3 User Interface (Partial)
  • Device: Touch Events, CSS3 Media Queries (Partial), Vibration API, getUserMedia API, Battery Status, Device Orientation Events (Accelerometer, Gyro sensor only)
  • Communication: XMLHttpRequest Level 2
  • Security: iframe sandbox, CSP1.0 (Partial)
  • UI: Clipboard API, Drag and Drop
  • Storage: Web Storage, File Reader API, Indexed DB API
  • Performance: Web Worker (Partial), Page visibility API
• Changes in W3C APIs:
  • Page visibility API: “webkit” prefix is now removed.
    • E.g., webkitvisibilitychange à visibilitychange
  • File Reader API: BlobBuilder is deprecated and replaced by Blob object
  • Indexed DB flag change: multientry à multiEntry
• Khronos specifications support : WebGL, Typed Arrays
• W3C Widget specifications support
  • Packaging and Configuration, Digital Signing, Widget Interface
• Device APIs to access to a device’s platform capabilities support
  • Alarm, Application, Bluetooth, Filesystem, System Information, Power, Motion(currently pedometer supported), SAP(communication between host and wearable device) API
  • SAP (communication between host and wearable device) API which now supports send/receive strings, send/receive files, find peer agents, peer agent found/update notification callback, device status change notification callback)
  • Motion(pedometer, heart rate monitor, Wrist-up) API is supported to get various sensor information efficiently
  • IrLED API is supported to show a string through IrLED
  • Note that the following properties in System Information API are not supported: LOCALE, NETWORK, WIFI_NETWORK, CELLULAR_NETWORK, SIM.
• Camera API support
  • Camera preview, change camera settings (picture size, picture format, etc.), image capture, video recording etc.
• Web application templates
• Web UI framework
  • Page navigation and basic event handling support as JavaScript library
  • CSS themes and resources for reference Web UI widgets
  • Winset test application for wearable UI
• Clock widget support
  • User customized clock widget on home screen

Wearable framework

Provides a complete implementation to support wearable device specialized features. It includes context manager, a controller of various sensors and context data via Motion Web API. It also provides communication protocol stack, Samsung Accessory Protocol (SAP), to interact with various smart devices. Its features include:

• Context manager support
• Samsung Accessory Protocol stack support
• Interoperability support via host manager (Phone side) and wearable manager service (wearable device side)

IDE and Tools

Information

• Multiple OS support
  • The IDE and Tools are available for Ubuntu® 12.04 or 12.10 (32- or 64-bit), Microsoft Windows® XP (32-bit) Service Pack 2 or later, Microsoft Windows® 7 (32- or 64-bit), Apple Mac OS® X 10.7 Lion (64-bit), Apple Mac OS® X 10.8 Mountain Lion (64-bit), Apple Mac OS® X 10.9 Mavericks (64-bit).
• IDE
  • Project Wizard
    • Provide various samples and templates.
  • Editor
    • JavaScript Development Tools (JSDT)
      • Validator policies changed to remove unnecessary warnings
    • Support for JavaScript and CSS source code beautifier (Ctrl + 6)
  • Views
    • HTML and CSS previews
      • Container changed from the in-place view to the Google Chrome® browser
      • Instantly displaying changes made to HTML or CSS code (live-reload)
    • JavaScript Log view
      • Support for colors based on the level
      • Support for IDE-related views through help context pop-ups
    • Building, running, and debugging
  • Certificate
    • Provide generating certificate request
    • Provide registering certificate
• SDB(Smart Development Bridge)
  • Support for installing and uninstalling application packages
  • Support shell for a target device and emulator
• Emulator
  • Support for HW VT acceleration, GPU acceleration on 32/64-bit Linux (Ubuntu), Windows® and Mac OS®
  • Supports x86-based QEMU Emulator
  • Supports multimedia codec.
  • Emulator Manager
    • Convenient creation of emulator and execution
  • Emulator Control Panel
    • Supports for virtual input like Pedometer, Battery, Gesture, and USB
    • Supports for uninstalling Apps
  • Supports for convenient features like screenshot, Always on Top, and SDB Shell
• CLI(Command Line Interface) Tool
  • Provides web-build command tool for building and optimizing Tizen Wearable Web projects

Known Issues

• Emulator
  • The Emulator skin may not be drawn properly on Ubuntu™. If the graphics driver is not installed or an older version is installed. To fix this issue, update the graphics driver version.
  • When the disk storage is full, various incorrect operations may occur.
  • A screen shot image may not be copied to clipboard on Ubuntu™ 64-bit.