Samsung Tizen OS

Great news today as VLC media player, commonly known as VLC, the portable, free and open-source, cross-platform media player and streaming media server becomes available in the Tizen Store. VLC media player supports a huge range of audio and video file formats, codecs and streaming protocols, so this is a great addition to the Tizen app ecosystem. We have support for hardware acceleration and subtitles which includes complex text scripts. As promised by the VideoLAN project this is a native VLC app, not a repackaged android app or HTML 5 app, so you can enjoy full performance. Oh it is also open source. Grab it now from the Tizen Store and its only a 9.64MB download.

Today, the SHAREit app has been released in the Tizen Store for the Samsung Z3. SHAREit is a highly requested app by the Tizen community, as it is a fast way for you to share photos, music, and more across devices. It does not use network data or even need you to be on the same WiFi network, now that’s cool ! Share everything with other devices including pictures, videos, music, documents and contacts. SHAREit requires Tizen 2.4 in order to run, so it is not compatible with the Samsung Z1 at the moment. Hopefully we will see a Z1 version after the Tizen 2.4 update. Features Easily find devices running SHAREit Transfer HUGE files, with speeds up to 40x faster than traditional bluetooth No need for network data or even the need to be on the same WiFi Supports Group Sharing – Share your media with up to 5 devices at a time Supports Tizen, Android & iOS & Windows Phone & Windows XP/7/8

WhatsApp Messenger has been updated to version 2.12.10 (released 31 March 2015) on the Tizen Store, and brings with it the ability to make WhatsApp voice calls. This feature went live for Android users yesterday and it’s great to see Tizen Samsung Z1 users also getting access this so fast. After the update users are now presented with three Tabs for Calls, Contacts, and Contacts. Manual Update You should get a notification to update your WhatsApp application, but if you don’t then do the following to manually check and update: Launch the Tizen Store Select APPS at the top left Select My Apps Select WhatsApp (under updates) Select Update Users in both India and Bangladesh (the countries that the Z1 is on-sale) have confirmed the can access the update. How are you finding the Calling feature? Let us know in the comments.

Great news for those who are looking for an alternative for the default pattern lock screen that is in the Tizen phones. Developer Rajesh Bawri and Anup Kushwaha was able to create a pattern lock screen app for Tizen phone. The default Pattern Lock screen by Tizen is using blocks to unlock the screen regardless of where the user start to draw. The Pattern Lock Screen by Rajesh, is more of like the familiar pattern lock screen that we see in Android phone. On the Pattern Lock Screen you have to draw a pattern of 4 or more series on dots on the screen to unlock. If you happen to forgot the correct pattern a back-up pin is available to unlock your phone.

Clash of Clans is a 2012 freemium mobile MMO strategy video game developed and published by Supercell, a video game company based in Helsinki, Finland. The game was released for iOS platforms on August 2, 2012.For Android, it soft-launched in Canada and Finland on September 30, 2013.On October 7, 2013, it was released on Google Play internationally. Clash of Clans is an online multiplayer game in which players build a community, train troops, and attack other players to earn gold and elixir, and Dark Elixir, which can be used to build defenses that protect the player from other players' attacks, and to train and upgrade troops.The game also features a pseudo-single player campaign in which the player must attack a series of fortified goblin villages

When the Gear S2 first launched, one of the apps that Samsung showed off was the KLM Flight app which unfortunately was not available when it came to release day. Well, now the app has been released on the Tizen Store and can be accessed using the Gear Manager app on your compatible handset. The app has some useful features for some of us that spend a fair bit of time in the sky. You can check your Flight status, Fying blue points (loyalty miles), flight time remaining, Display boarding pass, and Flight gate details. Exactly the type of things us travellers need. The Tizen Store is still expanding its app catalogue and this is these types of apps are eaxctly what we need.   Do you fly KLM and do you find the app useful ? Let us know in the comments.

Samsung Electronics has announced that Samsung Pay, their mobile payment solution, now supports 50 popular merchant gift cards in a new gift card store. Samsung Pay is currently the most accepted mobile payment system as it works with newer NFC payment terminals and also older MST technologies. The only Tizen device at present that will support Samsung pay, in early 2016, is the Gear S2 which supports NFC method of payment. Samsung Pay allows you to purchase, store, pay with, and share gift cards right from your Samsung phone. The 50 popular merchant gift cards including Babies“R”Us and Toys“R”Us, Bass Pro Shops®, Domino’s®, eBay, GameStop®, Nike, Regal Entertainment Group and Staples in partnership with Blackhawk Network. The company are also looking at expanding support for more gift card options in the coming months. “WITH THE SUPPORT OF MORE THAN 50 MAJOR RETAIL GIFT CARDS AND THE LAUNCH OF THE IN-APP GIFT CARD STORE, SAMSUNG PAY IS BRINGING CONSUMERS AN E...

S-File Manager is a fully featured file manager that is compatible with the Samsung Z3 Tizen Smartphone. The app features a friendly user Interface with all the file functions that you might need. which uses a fresh UI design and user friendly functions. You can search for files in the mobile storage locations, and also for particular types of files (pics, music, video, etc.). You can also be very specific on the type of file searches, so finding the exact file shouldn’t take too long to do. There is also cloud services Integration that allows you to move items between local and cloud storage. One killer feature as part of cloud storage is the ability to copy from one cloud service to another, without the need of first downloading it locally, such an un-needed step.   Main features Phone storage / SD Card Files Browsing Copy / paste from directory to directory Move option Filter same type of file Cloud services Copy / paste in G Drive Zip / Unzip Th...

Here is another useful app for your Tizen phone, “QuickApp Launcher” a very useful app that help you find and launch an app fast. Unlike the traditional way of accessing app where you have to go to the app section and go to directories of your app, the “QuickApp Launcher” find your app much faster, just type the name of the app and automatically “QuickApp Launcher” shows you the list of apps similar to the keyword. I find it very convenient finding the app in my Tizen phone, searching the app fast has never been this easy. It also shows the list of apps in alphabetical order, “Quickapp launcher” also sets the most frequently used app in the home screen for easy access. If you are always having a hard time searching for your app download the QuickApp Launcher Tizen app. Description: Quick app launcher helps you to find and launch an app much faster than the conventional way. Just start typing app name and it shows you the full list of all matching apps. Q...

Fleksy has today released their Messenger App for the Tizen based Samsung Gear 2 Smartwatch, giving users the ability to respond to messages directly from your wrist. The Fleksy app is the first keyboard to integrate with the Samsung Gear 2, allowing users to access SMS conversation threads and reply to them without the need to get their Smartphone out of their pockets, and is available to download free now from Samsung Apps. FOUNDER AND COO OF FLEKSY, IOANNIS VERDELIS SAID: “WE ARE EXCITED TO HAVE WORKED WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE SAMSUNG GEAR TEAM TO BRING AN AWESOME NEW APP TO THE GEAR ECOSYSTEM AND TIZEN OS. OUR UNIQUE TECHNOLOGY IS REDEFINING WHAT WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY DEVICES ARE CAPABLE OF, AND HOW USERS WILL ENGAGE WITH THEIR SMARTWATCHES.” Fleksy’s patent pending technology allows you to accurately reply to text messages, which is a challenge in such a small watch face area, but as our video below proves, it can be done !!!! “IT’S EXCITING TO BE EXPANDING TO...

If you are looking for a challenging game that will challenge your quickness and your pulse in the moment of pressure. You might want to check out the Run or Die Tizen game by Playtouch company a game developer from Paris France that develops apps based on HTML 5. The game is an HTML5 platformer type of game, to get a high score you have to jump from structure to structure in each platform to survive and get a high points, every successful jump gains 1 point. Tap to jump or double tap to double jump to reach a much higher elevation. We played the game and was really frustrating at first, we can’t figure out the perfect timing to jump but eventually we were able to sense the perfect timing. We are a fan of platformer games and Run or Die is one of the games in Tizen Store that provided as some challenge. The graphics are ok, and a black and white/monochrome concept is a good mix is good one. The game supports several languages from English, French, Italian, Turkish, ...

Candy Crunch a fun and challenging game to entertain you in your boring time, the game is somewhatlike a Candy Crush type of game (sort of bug not close). Candy Crunch has two game option so far Turns Mode and Time Mode. In Turns Mode you will be given 35 moves to get the highest score as possible, and the Time mode where at least 3 minutes allotted time is given. It is far from getting close to the hit smash game “Candy Crush” but the game is enough to entertain you and challenge you to get a high score. Just like in the Candy Crush, the Candy Crunch do have some power up sweets allow you to get a high score and remove other candies in just one sweep. If you achieve a good sweep line up of the sweets you will get a congratulation notification for every achievement that you are able to get, like “Tasty”, “Sugar Rush”. The graphics are ok, the sound as well but the transition is not that smooth, I hope the developer will improve this on the next update, ...

Here is another great game from fudog.org. Shake Island, a unique game where your goal is to build a boat and use it to travel to the next island, in you quest to build a ship you will need a lot of resources, and this is where the challenge begins. Professional Tizen Application Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) In order for you to get the needed resources to build a ship, you will need some materials like pitch, board and glass, you have to do have smart strategy like trade and buying items from pirates, or you might want to dig some out from the beach. You can also make a cocktail, syrup or juice that the aborigines are requesting, with this you will earn money from the payment of happy aborigines, well seems like it’s easy at first, but you need to be fast and pour the requested fruits in order to make the customers happy and contented, the faster you serve them the happier they are and you get more payments. Other options to earn are, playing a gam...

Check out this simple yet entertaining Tizen game for your mobile phone. “Sky Jumper” a fun game where your goal is to sky jump, deploy your parachute and land safely. But be careful, avoid hitting birds, air balloons and even Alien ships on your free fall. Playing the game is easy you first stage will be at altitude of 750 m, you have the option to either tilt or tap to move from left to right avoiding any obstacles. Touch to accelerate or just let it fall on its normal speed, when you are close to the ground its your call to deploy the parachute or not, deploying it on late stage will lead to a fatal velocity, killing you instantly, but having a perfectly landing will get you a high score. Check out this free game, get a high score and share your score online. Description: Now you have a chance to feel like a real sky diver and see what it is free falling from thousands of meters. You will jump airplane out on 3000 meters or higher and fall d...

The fact that the Tizen platform is compatible with a number of web applications makes it a much sought after operating system in the present day where you will find web applications galore. It is basically a Linux based OS and has found extensive usage in smart television, smartphones, and tablets aside from the IVIs or the so called devices that support in-vehicle infotainment. Identifiably, the Tizen OS has a number of advantages over the other operating systems. First and foremost, as it is an open source, not much is required to tweak the OS as per your requirement. For instance, in case of iOS and Android, the flexibility is limited as far as tweaking is concerned. Another benefit of using Tizen OS is that the Tizen apps can be written by using HTML 5. Not only that this particular OS is not just compatible with smartphones and tablets but can also be used as a notebook personal computer. The Tizen operating system is also compatible with Android apps. As such,...

How to get Python and related libraries / packages running on Tizen (1.0 "Larkspur", as shipped on the TizenConf developer device). Prerequisites: A device with Tizen 1.0 "Larkspur" installed (emulator might work too, but untested) The Scratchbox Build System set up for Tizen:  SBS The "sdb" utility from the  Tizen SDK  (usually installed as  SDK/sdb/sdb ) Need help? Want to discuss? Go to the  tizentalk.com forum thread  and post your comments, suggestions and questions there :) Building Python 2.7 from source TODO: Add instructions Building SDL 1.2, PyGame and related libraries TODO: Add instructions Build order (prefix is always  /opt/sdl-1.2.15/ ): SDL 1.2.15 SDL_ttf 2.0.11, with: freetype 2.4.9 SDL_image 1.2.12, with: libpng 1.5.10, jpegsrc v6b SDL_mixer 1.2.12, with: libogg 1.3.0, libvorbis 1.3.3, smpeg SVN PyGame 1.9.1 (requires all of the above + Python) ./configure  line needed to find some libraries: ...

Candy Crush Saga is a match-three puzzle video game released by the developer King on April 12, 2012 for Facebook, and on November 14, 2012 as a mobile app for smartphones

Here is a game where its game play is like the Maya Magic Puzzle for PocketPC, it’s a strategy game where you have to move each square animal puzzle until one animal remains. The game is simple to understand yet hard to master, you need to solve the puzzle in just a short period of time, so you can get the BEST Time record for solving the puzzle. Crown The Thing Crown the Thing Tizen app The game has been ported to Tizen, and hopefully we will be able to download the game in Tizen store once it is open. There is a sample game available for Chrome OS version see the game at http://ctt.tuzsuzov.com or you can watch the game mechanics on how to play at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=348zAtRdA6s. See more details about the game below: Crown The Thing Tizen App Crown the Thing Tizen app Description: The game is re-issue of the “Maya Magic Puzzle” for PocketPC from early 2000-ties. The game was designed by me, while working for GargaGames (the company behind the game at tha...

Here is another Flappy bird type of game,  Candy Flapp  by  8Bitband . But instead of a Flappy Bird, this time it’s a doughnut bouncing up and down in the candy land, avoid hitting the candy poles to get a high score. If you experienced playing the Flappy Bird or similar type of game, this game has similar game play, that game is easy to understand but very challenging to achieve a high score. The app is already available in Android and  iOS  platform and now it’s also available in Tizen smartphone. The graphics are good, and fun to playIf you are a fan of Flappy bird game and want to relieve the experience of playing it in the Tizen platform check out the  Candy Flapp Tizen game . What we like about the game is that it has far more better graphics than other Flappy Bird concept game, colorful background and much smoother controls.   Description: If you liked Flappy Bird then you will love  Candy Flapp . Take Flappy Bird and add q...

CamCard is one of the companies, who participated in the recent, Tizen Developers Conference 2014 San Francisco, CamCard showcase its award winning app a very useful tool to manage your business card, it can read any business card by taking a photo of it, it has the fastest optical recognition technology, making it very easy to read and save business cards right on your phone the app has the ability to read and scan multiple business card at once, even read read email signature; Read QR Code on cards. A very cool app for business minded persons. No need to type or save a photo of a business card in your phone, no need to collect those piece of papers and card boards, these business card clutters your wallet or bag, with the CamCard app you can store hundreds or thousands of business card right in your smartphone. CamCard Tizen App CamCard Tizen App  Professional Business Card Reader I have been using the business card for over a year now and I must say it’s a great ap...