Tizen 2.3 Beta SDK Release Notes

• Release Date: October 1, 2014

Introduction

Welcome to Tizen.

Tizen is an open source, standards-based software platform supported by leading mobile operators, device manufacturers, and chip suppliers for multiple device categories, including smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle infotainment devices, and smart TVs.

The Tizen Platform consists of the Web framework (APIs) and Native framework (APIs).

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

Tizen Platform Mobile Profile

Web framework

New Features

• Web Device API
  • Account API
    • Manage accounts within the device (e.g. create an account, change the account information)
  • Archive API
    • Create archive file and perform manipulations on it (e.g. extract files, add a file to the archive).
  • Badge API
    • Display the count of notifications per application (badge) on the application icon.
  • Exif API
    • Manipulate Exif data from JPEG file.
  • FM Radio API
    • Manage FM radio operations.
  • Sound API
    • Control sound volume level.
  • Human Activity Monitor API
    • Support for Pedometer, wrist-up, HRM and GPS added.
  • Sensor API
    • Support for Light, Magnetic, Pressure, Proximity, and Ultra Violet sensor types added.
  • SystemInfo API
    • Added the Memory interface and DUID attribute.
  • Calendar API
    • Create a calendar with account and add/remove calendar to database.
  • Contact API
    • Addressbook interface added
  • Content API
    • 'isFavorite' attribute added in Content interface.
    • Playlist interface added.
  • Filesystem API
    • 'camera' virtual path added.
  • NFC API
    • Card emulation feature added.
  • Push API
    • getUnreadNotifications() to get unread push notifications added.
    • Retrieve unread message via the PushNotificationCallback of connectService().
  • Secure Element API
    • getSelectResponse() to get the data as received from the application select command added.
  • SystemInfo API
    • getCapability() replaces getCapabilities() for retrieving the device capabilities.
    • WEARABLE enum value is added SystemInfoProfile.
  • Time API
    • Register & Unregister callbacks to receive notification of changes to the time, date or time zone on a device.
• Web Runtime
  • The Dynamic Box enabled.
  • Note: Dynamic Box Viewer is only supported on the reference target device, not on the Emulator.

Changed Features

• Web UI framework
  • Base library is changed to TAU from jQM. Recommended to use TAU APIs.
  • The library JS path has been changed from tizen-web-ui-fw/{version}/js/tizen-web-ui-fw.js to lib/tau/mobile/js/tau.js.
  • Default theme file path has been changed from tizen-web-ui-fw/{version}/theme/default/theme.css to lib/tau/mobile/theme/default/tau.css
  • Date-time picker and Multimedia view widget are deprecated. Instead use html standard(input, video, audio tag)
  • Deprecated widgets: Gallery3D, Split view, Virtual Grid

Native framework

Tizen native framework has been fully revised to improve the performance and the scalability of Native applications. The new native framework has following benefits:

• Multi-profile: Mobile in 2.3, other profiles in the near future
  • Minimal porting effort to run native application on multiple Tizen Profiles
• Lightweight and fast enough to fit in every device segment.
• Improved graphics: Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL)
  • Scalable, fast, themeable, easily customizable graphics for native apps (3rd party)
• More open source library support for Tizen Native Applications
  • 10+ opensource libraries supported
• Mature technology was already in Tizen, now in SDK and Compliance

New Features

• Context
  • Activity Recognition
    • Recognize user activities such as walking, running, and in-vehicle
    • React to the recognized user activities
  • Gesture Recognition
    • Recognize gestures such as tap, shake, snap, and tilt.
    • React to the recognized user gestures.
• Multimedia
  • Media Codec
    • Direct access to the media codec on device.
  • Media Tool
    • AV packet buffer for interworking between multimedia modules.
  • Radio
    • Start and stop radio.
    • Seek radio frequency.
    • Scan radio signals.
    • Get state of radio.
• Security
  • Key manager
    • A secure repository protected by a user’s password for keys, certificates, and sensitive data of users and/or their Apps.
  • Privilege Info
    • Read information of the given privilege name with API version.
• UI
  • Tizen Buffer Management
    • Low-level graphics buffer.
    • Get format list supported by the system.
    • Access the surface with the access type.
    • Support for multiple plane graphic buffers.
    • Get the information of surface and planes.
• Open source Libraries
  • The following open source libraries are supported in 2.3 Beta release:
    • libEXIF (0.6.21) : Access EXIF meta information in image files.
    • json-glib (0.10.4) : Manipulate JSON documents.
    • glib (2.38.2) : Basic programming facilities.
    • libcurl (7.28.1_24) : A client side URL transfer library.
    • libxml2 (2.7.8) : Parse XML documents.
    • fontconfig (2.9.0) and freetype (2.4.9) : Render text and fonts.
    • minizip (1.2.5) : Process files in ZIP format.
    • sqlite (3.7.13) : A lightweight SQL database.
    • cairo (1.12.14) : 2D graphics library.
    • openssl (1.0.1g_1) : A library for basic cryptographic functions.
    • oAuth (1.0) : Open standard for authorization.

Changed Features

• Application Framework
  • Tizen::App in 2.2.1 Native API has been replaced with Application Framework with the features listed below.
  • Application model
    • UI application model
    • Background service application model without a graphical user interface
  • Application Controls
    • Framework to share application functionalities
    • Explicit and implicit application control resolution
  • Data controls
    • Framework to access specific data exported by other applications and to share application data
  • Application management
    • Multitasking in the application
    • Service type applications
    • Active application changing event
  • Package management
    • Get information of the installed packages.
    • Application-specific metadata in the manifest
    • Package filtering and package app filtering for more effective ways to get installed package list
    • Get package information from the specific Tizen package file
  • Message Port
    • Send messages to the message ports of another application.
    • Receive messages from other applications
    • Trusted communication (allowed only if both applications are signed with the same certificate)
  • Notification
    • Text message notifications on the status bar
    • Ongoing notifications
    • Additional notification functionality to customize each notification message
    • Change notification title, icon, and sound
    • Badge change event listener
    • Notifications by application control - implicit AppControl resolution is attempted when the user selects the message
    • Remove an individual notification
    • Thumbnail and multiline-type notifications
  • Badge
    • Create and remove badges for the application icon.
    • Set and get the value and visibility of the badge.
  • Bundle
    • A small string-based Dictionary ADT (Abstract Data Type).
      • Create and manage a small dictionary for passing information among modules or processes via IPC like message port.
• Content
  • Tizen::Content in 2.2.1 Native API has been replaced with Content feature with the features listed below.
  • Media-Content
    • Content information management such as file attributes, metadata, custom data, and playlists
    • Retrieve all content associated with a content directory.
    • Metadata extraction (such as EXIF and ID3 tags from images, audio, and video)
    • Scan for a file or directory to synchronize content information with the local content database
    • Content DB change notifications
  • Download manager
    • Download contents through HTTP
    • Enable and disable download notifications
    • Setting the allowed network type
    • Manage the HTTP header fields
• Messaging
  • Tizen::Messaging in 2.2.1 Native API has been replaced with Messaging feature with the features listed below.
  • Message management
    • Create, send and receive SMS messages
    • Search SMS/MMS messages in the inbox, sentbox, outbox, or all message boxes.
    • Send and receive WAP Push messages
  • E-mail
    • Create and send E-mail messages.
    • Set E-mail attributes.
  • Push
    • Connect to the push service.
    • Receive push notification data.
• Base
  • Tizen::Base and Tizen::Locales in 2.2.1 Naive API has been replaced with Base feature with the features listed below.
  • Calendar data (utils-i18n)
    • Convert the date, time, and calendar fields using the Gregorian calendar, which is used by most of the world
    • Manage time zone information with DST (Daylight Saving Time).
  • Formatting data (utils-i18n)
    • Format numbers, currencies, date, and time.
  • Data types & Collections provided by eglibc, glib, and c++ standard library are supported.
  • Utility functions provided by glib, c++ standard library, minizip are supported.
  • Threads and synchronization mechanisms provided by glib are supported.
  • Smart pointers
    • Sole ownership management smart pointers: auto_ptr and unique_ptr.
    • Reference-counted shared ownership management smart pointers: shared_ptr and weak_ptr.
    • Custom deleter: unique_ptr and shared_ptr.
    • Move semantic: unique_ptr (explicit move), auto_ptr (implicit move), and the std::move() method template.
• IO
  • Tizen::Io in 2.2.1 Native API has been obsolete and is supported by open source libraries such as eglibc, glib, sqlite, standard c++ library.
    • File & Directory functions supported by eglibc and glib are provided.
    • Database features supported by sqlite3 are provided.
• Multimedia
  • Tizen::Media in 2.2.1 Native API has been replaced with Multimedia feature with the features listed below.
  • Audio and video recorder
    • Audio and video pre-processing filter APIs.
  • Camera
    • Camera to display a live preview and capture a still image.
  • Image Util
    • JPEG image decoding and encoding.
  • Metadata Extractor
    • Metadata extraction in a media file.
  • Player and recorder
    • Play audio and video from media files stored on a device or streaming over the network.
    • Playback of DTMF tones (Tone Player)
    • Playback of waveform audio file format (*.wav, WAV player)
    • Low-level audio playback and capture
    • Audio and video recording
  • Sound Manager
    • Check and controlling output volumes
    • Handling a volume changed notification
    • Determining a sound session policy
    • Handling the notification of a sound session interruption
  • Video-util
    • Transcoding media files.
• Network
  • Tizen::Net in 2.2.1 Native API has been replaced with Network feature with the features listed below.
  • Bluetooth
    • Support for the following.
      • Bluetooth Audio Profiles (HFP, HSP, and A2DP)
      • GATT(Generic Attribute Profile)
      • OPP (Object Push Profile)
      • HID (Human Interface Device Profile)
      • HDP (Health Device Profile) services
  • Device and service discovery
  • Note: Bluetooth features are only supported on the reference target device, not on the Emulator.
  • Connection management
    • Custom connection management service API.
    • Selecting the preferred connection.
    • Internet protocol (IP) address that represents a network resource or service (IPv4 supported only).
  • Wi-Fi
    • Functionality for managing the local Wi-Fi device.
    • Note: Wi-Fi features are only supported on the reference target device, not on the Emulator.
  • Socket and HTTP features supported by openSSL, libcurl are provided.
• Security
  • Tizen::Security in 2.2.1 Native API has been replaced with Security feature with the features listed below.
  • A wide range of cryptographic algorithms, certificate handling mechanisms, hash functions, and key management algorithms covered by openSSL are supported.
  • Smack
    • A significant number of rules have been revised to allow required access only.
    • Map Smack rules with Native/Web privileges to support better access control on kernel space.
• Social
  • Tizen::Social in 2.2.1 Native API has been replaced with Social feature with the features listed below.
  • Account Manager
    • Methods to manage the account information.
    • Methods to access accounts and account providers.
  • Contacts
    • Manage and search contacts on the device storage.
    • Import and export vCard files.
    • Contact aggregation.
    • Manage user profiles.
    • Bulk operations for adding, updating, and removing contacts.
    • Store application launch data in contacts.
    • Extra data for categories.
  • Calendar
    • Manage and search personal schedule and task information on the device storage.
    • Import and export vCalendar files.
    • Methods to update an event instance.
    • Absolute time for reminders.
• System
  • Tizen::System in 2.2.1 Native API has been replaced with System feature with the features listed below.
  • Device
    • Listen and handle events for various devices such as battery, display, haptic, led, and power services.
  • Dlog
    • Send log outputs.
  • Storage
    • Information regarding internal and external storages.
  • Runtime-Info
    • Runtime information such as hardware availability (e.g., if a USB device is connected or not), current language setting, and so on.
  • System-Settings
    • Access various system settings.
  • Sensor
    • Acceleration, gravity, gyroscope, humidity, light, magnetic, orientation, pressure, proximity, temperature, tilt, and ultraviolet sensors.
    • Getting and setting options for sensors
  • System-Info
    • System information such as API and platform versions, supported device features, and screen dimensions.
  • PowerManager of Tizen::System in 2.2.1 Native API has been obsolete and included in Device feature.
• Telephony
  • Tizen::Telephony in 2.2.1 Native API has been replaced with Telephony feature with the features listed below.
  • Telephony information
    • Getting information of the current call type, status, and event.
    • Getting information of the current network such as the cell ID, LAC, and PLMN.
    • Getting information of the current network status such as the availability of call and data services and roaming.
    • Getting information of the inserted SIM card.
• Tizen::Text in Tizen 2.2.1 Native API is now covered by Base feature.
• UI
  • Tizen::Ui 2.2.1 Native API has been replaced with UI feature with the features listed below.
  • EFL (UI core)
    • UI controls.
      • Containers, such as forms, panels, split panels, and windows, which can be used to hold different UI components
      • Windows, such as frames, pop-ups, and message boxes, which can be used to support layered display surfaces for UI components
      • UI components for user interaction, including button, entry, genlist, gengrid, panes, label, slider, tab bar, and various date, time, and color pickers, and so on.
    • Scalable UI
      • Develop and migrate multi-resolution applications with utilities, such as the layout manager, logical coordinates, and automatic resource selection.
    • Themes
      • Tizen provides a set of themes. Each application can select a theme to use.
    • Effects
      • 3D effect animations, such as page flipping and various rotations.
    • Multi-point touch and gestures
      • Multi-point touch events and touch gestures.
    • Scene management
      • Form life-cycle management and makes the transitions between forms or panels easier.
    • Animation
      • Key frame-based, animation of UI controls (such as view or panel transitions).
    • SW Accessibility
      • Container for customization of screen reader functionality for the visual handicapped people.
    • Focused UI
      • UI controls' focus could be displayed and moved by touch gestures and HW keyboard.
    • 2D Graphics
      • Platform-independent 2D graphics.
      • Graphics rendering methods and data structures
      • Floating point matrix and vector manipulation functions
    • 3D graphics
      • OpenGL® ES 1.1 and 2.0, which are subsets of the OpenGL® 3D graphics API designed for mobile devices.
      • Supported by OpenGL rendering on Evas.
• Web
  • Tizen::Web in 2.2.1 Native API has been replaced with ewk API that supports the features listed below.
  • EWK
    • Web browsing : Load and render a page from the network or local storage
    • Page navigation list : List of visited pages
    • Page control
      • Get the size of a Web page
      • Scroll a Web page
      • Clear navigation history
    • Settings : Configure Webview
      • Set javascript enable, user agent, load image, encoding, font size etc.
      • Private browsing control
    • Cookie and cache control
      • Clear the cache and cookies.

Unsupported Features

• The following features are not supported in 2.3 Beta release:
  • Wi-Fi Direct® (Tizen::Net in 2.2.1 Native API) (will be added in 2.3 official)
  • Tizen::App in 2.2.1 Native API has been replaced with Application Framework with the features listed below.
  • NFC (Tizen:: Net in 2.2.1 Native API) (will be added in 2.3 official)
  • Application management
  • AppSetting (Tizen::App in 2.2.1 Native API)
  • Image recognition and QR code recognition (Tizen::Ui in 2.2.1 Native API)
  • QuickPanelFrame and Dynamic Box (Tizen::Shell in 2.2.1 Native API)
  • Vibrator (Tizen::System in 2.2.1 Native API)
  • Serial port (Tizen::System in 2.2.1 Native API)
  • IME and Downloadable IME (Tizen::UI in 2.2.1 Native API)

Tizen Platform Wearable Profile

Web framework

New Features

• Web Device API
  • Human Activity Monitor API has been added with the support of pedometer, wrist-up, HRM and GPS.
  • The Sensor API has been added with the Light, Magnetic, Pressure, Proximity, and Ultra Violet sensor types.
  • The Memory interface and DUID attribute have been added in SystemInfo API.
  • The MessagePort and SystemSetting and Download API have been added.
• Web Runtime
  • The Dynamic Box is enabled.

Changed Features

• Web Runtime
  • The Application ID constraint has been added to Web application packages (widgets). Once the application has been published, the ID cannot be changed.
  • The following configuration elements have been added to support the Web IME: , , , and .
• Web UI Framework (TAU)
  • The library path has been changed from lib/tau/ to lib/tau/wearable/. All JS and CSS files are present in the changed path.
  • A new wearable theme style has been applied for all widgets (new resolution, 360x480, is supported)
  • The namespace for all widget constructors has been changed from tau. to tau.widget. (for example, tau.widget.Popup()).
  • Default Popup widget style is changed.
  • Options of Popup widget added for modal style.
  • Page layout calculation bug fixed
• Webkit
  • The following Web APIs and features have been added:
    • Geolocation, Webspeech (TTS only), and SVG
    • Network access including XHR, Web Socket, and Web page access through, for example, hyperlinks.

Fixed Bugs

• Web UI Framework (TAU)
  • SectionChanger widget : enable/disable, refresh method bug fix.
  • VirtualList widget : Jumping to the last position of list fixed.
  • Popup widget: Fixed the issue that popup is being closed before finishing animation.
  • IndexScrollbar : Fixed the issue that lowest index in 2nd depth blinks unnecessarily.

IDE and Tools

New Features

• Common tools
  • Dynamic Analyzer
    • The Dynamic Analyzer is tool to analyze the native application at runtime. It can help the developer to enhance the performance and reliability of the application.
      • This feature provides:
        • Effective analysis of the application behavior at runtime
        • Integration with the IDE menu
        • System information in the Timeline view
        • Overall application analysis in the Summary view
        • Detailed file, thread, network, and OpenGL analysis
        • Saving and loading the trace result
        • Recording and replaying application user interaction
        • Showing related source code as a tooltip and in the IDE
        • Combining chart and table selections
        • Range-based analysis
• Web IDE and tools
  • Added the breadcrumb in HTML Editor.
  • Added an advanced content assist in HTML Editor.
  • Added an advanced content hover in HTML Editor
  • Added Javascript static analyzer(JSA)
• Web UI Builder
  • Animator.
    • Added predefined animations (4 categories, 62 animations).
  • Data Binding View.
    • Binding information tooltip on Page Designer.
    • Added 16 bindable widgets for TAU
  • Project Template.
    • Added 4 TAU project templates.
  • N-Screen.
    • CSS Layer panel.
• Native IDE and tools
  • Native IDE is new for Tizen version 2.3.It is a smart and powerful development environment to create native applications for Tizen platforms.
    • Project Wizard.
      • This feature provides:
        • Various templates and samples to create native applications
    • Editor.
      • This feature provides:
        • Code assist for Tizen native APIs for 2.3.
        • Multi-form editor for the manifest file. You can configure the ID, version, icon, and privileges of the application.
    • Building and packaging.
      • This feature provides:
        • TPK (Tizen Package File) packaging.
        • Author and distributor signing
        • Multi-process application packaging. Multi-process applications enable hybrid architecture combining UI and service applications.
        • LLVM 3.4 and GCC toolchain
    • Running and debugging.
      • This feature provides:
        • Various debugging methods: normal, attach.
        • RDS (Rapid Development Support) for uploading only the changed files when re-launching, skipping the packaging process.
        • Crash report service and crash file viewer
        • Building the project automatically if there is no executable file when launching the application
• Emulator
  • Emulator Control Panel (the original event injector is removed)
    • This feature provides:
      • Message Synchronization between ECP(UI and CLI tools) and Emulator.

Changed Features

• Common IDE and tools
  • Common
    • Upgraded the eclipse based platform to Kepler (4.3) SR2.
  • Web UI Builder
    • Programming model
      • Programming model changed for new UI FW TAU
    • Animator
      • Timeline filtering for hiding animation unassigned widgets.
  • Platform IDE
    • On Windows, support to choose file transferring method between device and build server (SCP/SDB).
    • When debugging, disable “load library symbol” option if the project is EFL application.
  • Emulator
    • Menu
      • The host keyboard menu was deleted from popup menu and Emulator Control Panel. From now on, Tizen platform automatically recognizes a host keyboard when key event is injected.
    • Emulator Manager
      • HD(720x1280) resolution density has changed to 306.

Known Issues

• Common tools
  • Because old workspace metadata is incompatible by the major upgrading effect, IDE crash can be occurred. Recommend to create new workspace.
  • Connection Explorer view sometime does not show all running emulator information.
• Native IDE and tools
  • The EDC UI template and sample applications are not available on Mac OS X because the edje_cc for Mac is absent.
  • Some compile warning messages are found when you build some template/sample applications with llvm compiler. This issue is caused by llvm known bug,http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.bugs/23281.
• Web UI Builder
  • Some TAU widgets are not included in the widget palette or not work properly.
  • Selected resolution in the N-Screen View is not applied on the app.
  • In some cases, the designer may not work properly if you modify the HTML code directly.
  • Display scroll bar in the middle of Contents area in the simulator if animation apply to Content
  • Animation does not work properly with N-Screen
  • IDE creates console window when internal browser has been created in Windows 8.
Emulator
• On Windows, depending on your OS theme ( like Windows 7 non-Aero themes , Windows XP themes), a display surface could be erased for a while if emulator window is obscured by other window . If you click the emulator window, the display surface would work correctly.
• The Emulator skin may not be drawn properly on Ubuntu™ . If the graphics driver is not installed or an old version is installed. To fix this issue, upgrade the graphics driver.
• When the disk storage is full, various incorrect operations may occur.
To use the Tizen emulator, you need Intel VTx supported by CPU, latest vendor-provided version of the graphic card driver et al. Please check the prerequisites for the Tizen emulator.
• https://developer.tizen.org/downloads/sdk/installing-sdk/prerequisites-t...
• On Ubuntu, if the host machine is using Nvidia Optimus ™ technology, you can set the Tizen Emulator to run with your Nvidia ® graphics card via the bumblebee project.
• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee

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