Tizen Releases Source Code and SDK Previews

Tizen, a new Linux based HTML5 operating systems aimed at mobile and consumer devices, was announced at the end of September 2011 without much detail.

Today, Tizen has posted a set of pre-release tools, source code and related documentation to give application developers an early look at Tizen. Tizen Alpha (pre-1.0) is a very early preview and is not yet designed for use to create production applications.

They specifically released the following items:

• Tizen source code preview – Operating system source code, including middleware, basic UI, and menu interface
• Tizen SDK preview – SDK & APIs: Web IDE, Emulator, Web API documentation, and Toolchain

If you plan to try Tizen SDK, you development machines should match or exceed the following requirements:

• Ubuntu 10.04/10.10/11.04 32-bit (Windows and Mac version will be available later)
• At least dual-core 2 GHz CPU (recommend VTx supported by CPU)
• At least 2 GB of RAM memory
• At least 3 GB of free disk space
• At least 1280×1024 screen resolution

The documentation is divided into 2 main sections:

• Getting Started with Tizen:
  
  • Platform Overview
  • Development Tools
  • Getting Started
• Tizen Web API Reference:
  
  • Tizen Web API
  • WAC 2.0
  • W3C Widget Specifications

If you are a developers and reviewed the source code and/or SDK, and have some feedback, you can contact them via:

• General mailing list for general questions about the project, the community, or events.
• Tizen application developer mailing list for questions or feedback about development for applications that will run on top of Tizen using the Tizen SDK / APIs.
• Tizen product developer mailing list for questions or feedback about development for the operating system distribution.
• IRC channel for general discussions about Tizen.

 

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