Samsung wants developers to build apps for its home-grown Tizen OS. The mobile operating system designed for affordable smartphones and tablets has a limited app ecosystem. But Samsung aims to change that.
The Korean tech giant has announced it will start a collaboration with Microsoft on open source projects such as .NET Core and Xamarin.Forms in order to bring .NET support for Tizen.
It’s pretty good news for users who like Tizen OS and believe the mobile OS has a chance of becoming quite wide-spread. The first preview of Visual Studio Tools for Tizen is already available, so .NET developers can go ahead and start building Tizen apps for multiple platforms such as Smart TVs, smartwatches and loT devices.
Visual Studio Tools for Tizen brings support for mobile application development via device emulators and an extension to Visual Studio with IntelliSense and debugging capabilities.
If it sounds quite exciting that because it is. Samsung said that users can expect to see Tizen .NET support coming embedded in consumer Samsung devices including Smart TVs in 2017.
It would be interesting to see if 2017 will also bring about a higher specced Tizen OS phone. Although the OS has been designed with budget products in mind, it might be useful to see how Tizen feels and behaves on a higher-end handset.
[Samsung]
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