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UPDATE: The contest winners have been announced. Thanks for your participation!

We want to hear your advice, product feedback, and experiences on writing apps for Tizen devices and build the knowledge base of Tizen.org members.

Post a comment to this blog related to application development for Tizen devices. To be eligible for prizes, your comment must be at least 100 words long (that’s only about the length of this section), and include one of the following:

A testimonial on experience developing a Tizen app
Recommendations and/or product improvements for future releases of Tizen and/or product improvements
A solution to a specific challenge in Tizen development
Advice or a demo on how to write an app for Tizen
Porting an existing app to Tizen
Using Tizen SDK

We will award $50 gift cards for the first 50 eligible entries, and three monthly prizes of a 480 GB SSD drive. The Grand Prize is an Intel Core* i7 desktop PC. Our judging panel of Tizen experts at Intel will be looking for technical accuracy, relevance, innovation, enthusiasm, community building/reaction, and overall quality of posts. Complete contest details can be found on the Intel website.

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The Fine Print:

Contest open to registered members of Tizen Community at http://tizen.org.
Contest open to participants worldwide. All national and local laws and regulations of the resident’s country of residence apply. Contest is void wherever restricted or prohibited by law.
No purchase necessary.
Entrants must be able to speak, read, and understand English.
Participants must be 18 years or older to enter.
Contest runs from 7:00 PM PACIFIC May 7, 2012 to 7:00 PM PACIFIC August 7, 2012.
Post must meet community and content guidelines for Tizen.org.

Complete Rules and Terms of Contest Entry This contest is subject to the Complete Rules and Terms of Contest Entry found on the Intel website.

Comment below. We want to hear from you.

Comments

BY Eric Mantion, 22 Jan 2013 2:24 am

**FINAL UPDATE** The Winners have been announced. Please go here to read them: https://developer.tizen.org/blogs/captgeek/2013/winners-announced-tizen-contest

BY Eric Mantion, 9 Nov 2012 1:29 am

Update: potential prize winners have been all notified by email now. People have until November 30, 2012, 5PM PST to respond by email or their contest entry will be removed from prize consideration.

Once eligibility of receiving prizes have been verified, the list of winners will be posted here.

If you have questions, please message me.

BY jezra, 3 Oct 2012 8:46 am

Thank you for your quick response. While I am sure that such things take time, it would be nice if there was more interaction with the community in regards to the state of this event and other such events.

BY Eric Mantion, 3 Oct 2012 8:24 am

Jezra, we are following the process for international contests. We are going though all the legal reviews of the host countries of potential winnners. Sorry this is not a quicker process. I am not the Tizen Community Manager. Thanks.

BY jezra, 3 Oct 2012 5:47 am

Hi Eric, It has been a month since your last post. Is there any update on this community event? On a side note, in your profile, your job title is listed as "Tizen Community", does this mean you are then new Tizen Community Manager at Intel?

BY Peter Zoll, 30 Sep 2012 5:42 am

Any signs of life on the announcement of contest winners?

BY Eric Mantion, 31 Aug 2012 2:03 am

Hi Folks, Just an update on this contest - our panel of judges met yesterday and deliberated on all the entries. We are in the process of communicated out to the winners & once we have that complete, we will list to prize winners. Thank you to all that participated - we really appreciate all the activity! Thanks, Eric

BY jezra, 23 Aug 2012 2:53 am

Jabencroft, when you spoke to the contest administrator, did they give any sort of timeframe for when they would reply?

BY Josh Bancroft, 14 Aug 2012 2:25 am

I've asked the contest adminstrators to provide an update on the contest. They will post here with the info.

BY Phil rzr, 14 Aug 2012 2:19 am

It would be also useful to list the contributions and merge it the tizen wiki what do you think ? For now I am updating my entry : http://rzr.online.fr/q/webdav# TRANSIG : testimonial on experience developing #Tizen app , synch'ing notes on #WebDav with #JavaScript (wip) 1st version was at : https://www.tizen.org/blogs/jabancroft/2012/announcing-tizen-developer-contest-intel?page=1#comment-389

BY jezra, 14 Aug 2012 12:40 am

According to the contest terms and conditions: "Winners of the monthly prizes, and the Grand Prize will be posted on Tizen.org within 14 days of notification to the winners. A list of winners of the $50 VISA gift cards can be requested by emailing appdeveloper@intel.com." However, after searching the Tizen.org website, I have not been able to find any postings about the winners of the first two monthly prizes (perhaps they haven't been notified yet).

BY Ahmet YILDIRIM, 13 Aug 2012 11:09 pm

Does anyone know, when results are going to be announced and where?

BY Aloke Das, 13 Aug 2012 11:05 pm

I was going through the Tizen documentation. I see that I can create a c++ project. But do Tizen SDK has c++ APIs?

BY Peter Zoll, 7 Aug 2012 8:28 am

For fans of performance monitoring so that as a discerning selector of operating systems you can brag to strangers as you ride mass transit: the 'getconf' command which can be used to show the cache parameters. To show cache hits, misses there is a new tool called 'perf' which must be installed. Results from getconf: LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE 32768 LEVEL1_ICACHE_ASSOC 8 LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE 64 LEVEL1_DCACHE_SIZE 32768 LEVEL1_DCACHE_ASSOC 8 LEVEL1_DCACHE_LINESIZE 64 LEVEL2_CACHE_SIZE 262144 LEVEL2_CACHE_ASSOC 8 LEVEL2_CACHE_LINESIZE 64 LEVEL3_CACHE_SIZE 3145728 LEVEL3_CACHE_ASSOC 12 LEVEL3_CACHE_LINESIZE 64 LEVEL4_CACHE_SIZE 0 LEVEL4_CACHE_ASSOC 0 LEVEL4_CACHE_LINESIZE 0 Example output from perf:

perf stat -B dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=1000000

Performance counter stats for 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=1000000':

5,099 cache-misses # 0.005 M/sec (scaled from 66.58%) 235,384 cache-references # 0.246 M/sec (scaled from 66.56%) 9,281,660 branch-misses # 3.858 % (scaled from 33.50%) 240,609,766 branches # 251.559 M/sec (scaled from 33.66%) 1,403,561,257 instructions # 0.679 IPC (scaled from 50.23%) 2,066,201,729 cycles # 2160.227 M/sec (scaled from 66.67%) 217 page-faults # 0.000 M/sec 3 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 83 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 956.474238 task-clock-msecs # 0.999 CPUs

0.957617512 seconds time elapsed

For Tizeneers, three go-fasts are

1. use GPUs to do some of the computing 2. strive to take more than your share of cache 3. multi-thread

perf gives you a good idea how successful you have been at #2

BY Peter Zoll, 6 Aug 2012 2:30 am

Good news for Tizeneers! In econometrics and system performance analysis a much-feared condition is what is called heteroskedasticity. This occurs when variance is not uniform. At app start you will likely spin up multiple non-homogeneous threads that do all sorts of different things in parallel so your code appears to a user to run faster. It is often easier to measure multiple homogeneous threads - suppose you have to evaluate 32 million calculations - rather than do one at a time it is almost always far faster to launch, for example, 16 threads doing 2 million each. You'd expect all the threads to more or less finish at the same time. What happens in Windows (7 and 8) is as you increase the number of threads and increase the number of calculations the variances in how quickly the threads execute increases. This is not good. Tizen currently holds it own on speed. Of importance in terms of consistency and predictability is that Tizen has less heteroskedasticity regardless of whether one increases threads or calculations. In real life, were one trying to predict the impact of prevailing economic policies on the economies of America, it's individual states, and even counties, what would be desired is low variance (= high confidence) in the outcomes. A strategy that might gain or lose one million jobs in California would likely be viewed with skepticism if not outright scorn.

BY Phil rzr, 5 Aug 2012 10:42 pm

TRANSIG : A testimonial on experience developing a Tizen app

Here are a few comments, I plan to reformat this into a tutorial.

More details up to come (sources, video, demos) on those URL :

https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/User:Rzr

INTRODUCTION

When tizen came up, I was quiet amazed on this new Linux Platform, coming from MeeGo, I expected to port some of my projects (Qt/Qml) to compare ...

But unfortunately TiZen is so far restricted to HTML5/JavaScript API.

So I had to think about a new product, I wanted to dig into multimedia API but I felt I had a wait a bit to get them more mature...

Finally, I thought about creating a WebDav client to be manage my files...

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

First I created an HTML file and started to code with in my favorite editor (emacs)

I had some javascript knowledge since netscape year, so It was quiet easy to get familiar with jquery, JS API : local storage XmlHttpRequest...

After synch'ing files on my private server, and tested it on tizen's lb default browser,

It went working...

PACKAGING

The final goal was to have a local app that can connect to any WebDav server so I did use the SDK to migrate my "webpage" into a tizen app...

This was pretty easy, just generate a default project and merge previously written code...

After upgraded SDK, updated time of target, deployment succeed. we're done

FUTURE

Today I am facing a major issue with using XmlHttpRequest from local file ...

so I had to figure it out before releasing a beta version of the product...

Anyway the project is opensource and welcome any review patches at the URL at the top

RECOMMENDATIONS AND/OR PRODUCT IMPROVEMENTS FOR FUTURE RELEASES OF TIZEN AND/OR PRODUCT IMPROVEMENTS

supporting Native Development would be appreciated , Qt
backward compatibility with MeeGo would be awesome
inclusive platform would be perfect

A SOLUTION TO A SPECIFIC CHALLENGE IN TIZEN DEVELOPMENT

Unsure this is an acceptable solution, but using XmlHttpRequest in Tizen WebApps puzzling me ...

I guess running a local webserver would unblock this null's Origin restriction...

I am listing existing workarounds

ADVICE OR A DEMO ON HOW TO WRITE AN APP FOR TIZEN

Try to stick to standards as much as you can, since the devices are not in mass market.

Depending on a risky feature can be a problem (like XmlHttpRequest on local files)

PORTING AN EXISTING APP TO TIZEN

As said previously , create your project out of tizen and test it on your regular browser will save you deployment to target, once mature, you can integrate it into a tizen generated project.. and keep testing this on your desktop browser...

Using the Tizen SDK

I was lazy to discover all feature in eclipse, and preferred my regular tools (emacs, chromium etc), but I figured out how to use basic features to deploy project on device

Get the SDK working a debian amd64 through a chroot into bohdi linux i386

BY Peter Zoll, 30 Jul 2012 9:06 pm

Intel graciously gave me and other attendees a Windows 8 Ultrabook last Thursday (7/26) at the San Jose event. Comparing it to another Intel Ultrabook we have for Windows 7 a core i5 at 1.70 GHz versus a core i7 at 2.0 GHz for Windows 8. They have the same L1 and L2 caches. The Windows 8 machine has a megabyte more (4 versus 3) of L3 cache. I have asked Intel is there are any differences in cache abilities. They both have 4 gigabytes of DDR3 RAM and a solid state drive. As with the cache, I have asked if the SSDs are notably different. It's currently fair to say the systems are comparable. Both are dual cores with hyperthreading. I ran quite a few tests with an application of mine named ORIBI. The tests vary the number of threads the application starts, do a bunch of calculations and write results to disk. If there were, for example, one billion calculations to do and ORIBI was spawning four threads this execution there would be 250 million calcs per thread. There are some technical (statistical) problems with heteroskedasticity - variance among threads increases as the number of calculations increases - but so far this Windows 8 machine is markedly outperforming its Windows 7 counterpart THREE TO ONE. Not the result I expected. Had Windows 8 been as slow as or slower than Windows 7 it would have been good for Tizen. I am going to try and get Tizen running on these machines but Tizeneers should be concerned that any hoped for performance advantage for Tizen is in jeopardy. Detailed results at www.imagsts.com/Windows8.html

BY Maria Baker, 30 Jul 2012 5:01 pm

I am trying to develop an tizen app from they expert mobile apps developers to win this contest.

BY Peter Zoll, 23 Jul 2012 11:45 pm

There will be two Intel-sponsored Windows 8 Ultrabook kickoffs - one in San Jose this Thursday and one in New York City in August. Several colleagues and I will be attending the San Jose event. We'll likely be the only ones in ties, so stop by and say hello. Two comrades in arms from the StartUp bus expedition to Elements 2011 (prospects seem dim for there being an Elements 2012) will be journeying to New York. We all had two questions: Will Visual Studio 2012, presumably with Intel's Parallel Studio extensions, be pre-loaded? More importantly, how about a dual boot to Tizen? I am working my way through trying to get Grub to handle Win8 and Tizen. Has anyone out there succeeded?

BY Peter Zoll, 23 Jul 2012 11:21 pm

WHERE is the Tizen equivalent of Project Mercury? Dell revealed that it will deliver a new developer-focused, Ubuntu-powered laptop as part of its Project Sputnik in the fall. Dell announced this and other open-source moves at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2012 (OSCON). Dell plans to deliver an official developer laptop based on the Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu 12.04LTS preloaded, available in select geographies. Made possible by an internal innovation fund, the system will offer developers a complete client-to-cloud solution. The included software will allow developers to create microclouds on their laptops, simulating a proper, at-scale environment, and then deploy that environment seamlessly to the cloud. This is very cool for applications that need scalability - like political polls and post-disaster communications websites. Fans of ancient history will recall the namesake satellite transmitted signals for 22 days until the transmitter batteries ran out on 26 October 1957. A word to the wise about power management! Alas, Sputnik 1 burned up on 4 January 1958, as it fell from orbit upon reentering Earth's atmosphere, after travelling about 60 million km (37 million miles; 1440 orbits) in 3 months. America had been working on satellite launch rockets since 1955, but was not able to have a successful launch until January 1958. As the name of that product, Explorer, is taken perhaps the speedy launch of a cloud-integrated Tizen laptop (or ultrabook) can find another historically significant project title.

BY John Ixion, 17 Jul 2012 9:15 am

It would be great to have a Samsung Ultrabook in all Amazon stores, and a Tizen ISO (SDK included) on tizen.org Intel, Samsung and other members of the Tizen Association could emit discount coupons to lower the price for selected developers.

BY Peter Zoll, 10 Jul 2012 1:45 am

Curiously, on the Code Project (see http://www.codeproject.com/Competitions/585/Android-at-Play-Android-Game-App-Contest.aspx) there's an announcement of an ANDROID contest:

"Got an idea for an amazing Android game? Create a new, NDK-based Android game app for Intel® architecture (IA) based devices, then write an article about it and you could win a $25,000 cash prize!

This Intel® sponsored contest runs for four months, from July 6^th 2012 and ends November 6^th 2012. There will be four prizes (one each month) of $1000 cash prizes, and a grand prize of a $25,000 cash prize."

How about a Tizen contest - presumably for $1001 dollars and $25001 as the grand?

BY karthik s, 3 Jul 2012 12:03 am

I am very happy to write html 5 application using Tizen SDK.

Download and Installation

You can download Tizen SDK here.now available forUbuntu 10.04/10.10/11.04/11.10 32-bit, Windows XP SP3/7 32-bit Start -> Programs -> Tizen SDK-> Tizen IDE then File New Project Explore Tizen Folder and then Select Tizen Web Project click Next Template section select HTML5 Boilerplate Template Boilerplate Enter project name --> click Finish button Lets how to write a simple animation demo using css3 . Just expand css folder Edit style.css file Copy & Paste below code into style.css .div { width:100px; height:100px; background:red; position:relative; -webkit-animation-name:myfirst; -webkit-animation-duration:5s; -webkit-animation-timing-function:linear; -webkit-animation-delay:2s; -webkit-animation-iteration-count:infinite; -webkit-animation-direction:alternate; -webkit-animation-play-state:running; } @-webkit-keyframesmyfirst { 0% {background:blue; left:0px; top:0px;} 25% {background:yellow;left:200px;top:0px;} 50% {background:blue;left:200px;top:200px;} 75% {background:green;left:0px;top:200px;} 100% {background:red;left:0px;top:0px;} } Ignore warnings and then include div class into your Index.html file Like this <pclass="div"> </p>

Save project

Run Project

Press run button or right click on project folder Run As -->Tizen Web Simulator Application It's just a sample for Tizen SDK You can Write more Happy Coding

BY karthik s, 1 Jul 2012 2:40 pm

Tizen SDK is easier way to develop web applications and its feature is very friendly. Tizen SDK web simulator is excepted developer result .and then touch events ,sensor frameworks is more flexible to use .HTML5 feature ,css3 and WebGL ,3D window effects are normal things .Tizen SDK is right place to develope web applications happy Coding

BY Peter Zoll, 30 Jun 2012 11:34 pm

Has anyone applied for (or, better yet, been approved for or even received) a Tizen developer device? Availability was announced June 19, but I am still not seeing anything available even when selecting <any>.

Would anyone have any notion when (or if) Tizen netbooks (mentioned in the list) will be available?

At one time Intel was handing out ExoPC tablets with MeeGo layered on top of Win7. Would anyone have managed to remove MeeGo and upgrade to Tizen? If so, did the Tizenized ExoPC perform with credible speed and stability?

Is it safe to assume Oracle will NOT have a Java for Tizen and that one should use the Java for LINUX?

BY Nabeel Jamal, 30 Jun 2012 6:08 pm

Hello, I am a graphic artist and 3d Modeller,Animator and have worked with Vengeance Studios for 3-4 years.Recently I have developed an interest in designing new firmwares for Bada OS and eventually I found about Tizen OS.After Reading certain reviews about it,I decided to explore it more and then I found this site.As a developer,I can take responsibility of User Interface and graphics,Flash files of Tizen OS.I can also be elgible as a debugger and logic designer behind many apps and features. I have knowledge in Java,certain knowledge in C++ and also Python.As a 3D modeller,I have knowledge in 3Ds Max,ZBrush Detailing and Adobe Photoshop. Certain new features are always expected from many OS.As of now,the only large difference between many OS' is there User Interface.They tweak the positions of clock,change the theme format and add some small graphic features and present it as an upgraded OS.While I want to have a global OS superior than any other,like it can support widgets whether made for Android,Bada,IOS or any other.Adding certain lines of codes in the widget compatibility are may not be very hard and will add a GREAT new feature that may become as an eyecandy for most of the customers. There are lot of features that Chinese Propreitory OS have and which are not present in many big brand OS'.Like once I used a Chinese mobile in a shop and its User Interface was mind boggling.It had 3D view of Main menu,It had great functionality and its speed was amazing,the only con was it was Propreitory,so if we can add new features that the world hasn't seen yet in any other Mobile OS,for example,for Ultra-High security of mobile devices with secodary front camera,we can develop a lock screen that recognizes the face and scans it for matching.For Mid level security we can add finger print scanning and for low level security we can have bubbles with different colours or letters and from these many certain bubbles would have to be brought one over the other in order to unlock the phone. Regards, Nabeel

BY Vivin NL, 27 Jun 2012 8:04 pm

In the Name of God I am going to start my first mobile application development with the Tizen OS. I know Tizen's Potential in the not too distant future:-) and I am in that contest too....

BY Ahmet YILDIRIM, 7 Jun 2012 7:29 am

Here is video demonstration of the LunarCannon game on Tizen Developer Device: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV0gYn3ZJJw

BY Muhammad Hakim Asyari, 4 Jun 2012 8:22 pm

as mobile developer (I have some app published in google play here https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Muhammad+Hakim+A, Blackberry Appworld http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/vendor/2034/?lang=en and also managing high traffic blackberry developer miling list here: http://groups.google.com/group/blackberry-developer), developing in a new platform is relly interesting to me. knowing there is tizen project, I try to port my web app project that I currently developed for Blackberry Playbook using Blackberry Webworks SDK; and surprisingly it is very easy. in lest than 3 minute (copy & paste) I can run my prototype app in tizen simulator. here the video demo : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1s-vtJlQ6M

so far I am very interested with tizen as "web OS" beside there is boot to gecko by mozilla, since tizen is designed to run not only in smartphone and tablet but also in other platform like netbook, smart TV that mean more vast monetization opportunity for me as developer.

BY jezra, 1 Jun 2012 12:17 pm

While I agree that the mobile web is gettng fragmented with a lot of CSS that is webkit specific, The Tizen SDK created webapps use jQuery and jQuery Mobile which are rendering engine agnostic frameworks. The reason that so much code is being written that is Webkit specific is that the Webkit development is moving forward faster than the W3C is clarifying their specifications. If any single entity is to be blamed for web fragmentation, it may very well be the W3C and their slow pace.

BY John Ixion, 1 Jun 2012 12:07 pm

I'm talking about the Webkit/Gecko fragmentation, the "Works best with Safari" f.i.

BY jezra, 1 Jun 2012 10:46 am

Tizen HTML/JavaScript apps are W3C widgets http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/.How do they fragment HTML5?

BY jezra, 1 Jun 2012 10:46 am

Tizen HTML/JavaScript apps are W3C widgets http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/.How do they fragment HTML5?

BY John Ixion, 1 Jun 2012 10:24 am

Collaboration with Mozilla should be a priority: we don't want a fragmented HTML5.

BY oytun eren sengul, 26 May 2012 8:19 pm

Great app and porting success! Nice work!

BY Sebastian Stiffel, 22 May 2012 8:31 pm

Hi, I am a student and develop webbased apps for several platforms: Android & iOS via PhoneGap, BlackBerry via WebWorks and even some HP webOS projects. Some of them for fun, some for clients. References available upon request. ;) During my internship in San Francisco I started working on a MUNI (public transportation) tracker app that was meant to look nice and offer some features not found anywhere else yet (like live vehicle tracking on the map). You can easily set your favorite stations to see the upcoming departure times. The attached screenshots shows how my prototype currently looks like on iOS.

However: this app is neither completely finsished nor published yet. I'd consider bringing it exclusivly to Tizen if you guys are able to provide an SDK for OS X. I really don't get the point of developing in a VM when we talk about platform independent HTML5...

BY John Ixion, 21 May 2012 10:04 am

Phone OEMs never port an OS to existing devices (except for devs): high costs, high risks, zero profits. But Bada device owners will profit from the Tizen SDK, which will be Bada compatible: more apps will be available. Disclaimer: I'm not a Samsung guy. ;)

BY Shashank Rathore, 21 May 2012 12:00 am

Can you please tell me will tizen be ported to any Samsung Wave Devices since I am the Owner of the site Badahub.com and All of my site visitors want to know about it. I will be very thankful to you if you could tell me the Wave devices for which the update is planned. If you could tell me about it then i would be able to help my millions of visitors who are dying to get the answer.

BY michele tameni, 18 May 2012 4:41 pm

Thinkin about the creation of html5 application, one of the most annoyng thigs that a developer has to develop is adhoc solution for content caching. I mean that many app can't store all the content within the app itself, but many time is usefull to allow the user to bring some of that content offline for on the go reading. If there is no problem for text content, problems come when we need to store image or media for offline usage. Any dev on any platform is forced to develop his own solution for doing this caching. A standard api do download media for offline reading i think can be a huge improvment. T he manifest file is not always the best solution for this king of things, use won't keep all the content his view, but only what he really care about. Thanks. Michele

BY Peter Zoll, 15 May 2012 2:21 am

As of 5/14 no obvious way to use Intel's fine VTune™ on Tizen or, for that matter, Android. One would assume VTune and friends are being used on Tizen itself. Between static code analyzers and dynamic ones like VTune and its siblings, an app code pounder has to spend a lot of time learning the interface, how to run the analyzer, and how to analyze the results. It has been claimed over the years that this makes one a better coder. Unfortunately, today there are lots of variants of C/C++ that don't always compile or run quite the same. Did Intel ever consider having a fee-based service where an app writer sends in a script and some code and Intel runs VTune Amplifier XE (with its helpful advisor) and probably Inpsector XE against them in a number of configurations: dual core phone; quad core ultra; many core server; cloud ... The submitter would get back a matrix that in essence might say: 1. this function or hunk of code is a sloth on all configurations and here's our recommendation to fix it. or 2. this code is a butterfly - it is colorful and nimble but only on small configs - cannot scale up or 3. this code is a crocodile - most of the time it does very little, but in some cases it is very active (lethally from an antelope's point of view) - more consistency is desirable. As an example, suppose you have a subroutine or function which you call all the time from all over the place. If things are ok with the battery, it just exits. If not, it does all kinds of stuff. It is more tunable and testable if the code only gets called when the battery is in trouble. or 4. what we call ants or termites or bees depending on how someone is feeling. This is code that is much more effective when parallelized. Perhaps this service is free during the early days of Tizen. Intel might get a few pennies; apps will run better (on Intel chips at least) AND, perhaps most importantly, Intel gets a massive and mostly free sample database of what people are actually writing and running. This tells Intel areas to explore in the operating system, software tools and hardware design. Wherever on Planet Earth there are antelopes or other prey creatures they know they must run faster across the grasslands than other nearby antelopes or be eaten when big cats or wild dogs are hunting. Likewise, predators know they must run faster than their target herbivore or starve. Great plains like the Serengeti must regenerate grass faster than antelopes or fires consume it, or turn into deserts. It does not matter much whether one is an bovine or a feline or a prairie - when the sun comes up you best be ready to run. In the equally competitive world of information processing there's little compassion for slow code. VTune sooner rather than later, please.

BY Timo Jyrinki, 14 May 2012 7:04 pm

I briefly managed to visit the San Francisco event while I was mostly on the Oakland side. The event seemed fine and dandy, and generally people believed there's something to it in Tizen. On the other hand, it feels like Tizen in its 1.0 release form doesn't recognize itself crystal-clearly. On a technical basics front, it's mostly a Samsung's Linux distribution with seemingly not too many outside contributors? On the application / API front the stuff Intel (and Samsung?) do seem pretty great, with genuine interest in both improving W3C standards and contributing to those, so that Tizen can do real-world experimenting while not forking away too far by contributing immediately back. The community side of Tizen at the moment does not in my opinion clearly define what it is, what it isn't and what it aims to be. Referring to the MeeGo SF conference talk of ”Transparency, inclusion and meritocracy”, the same problems MeeGo had are in Tizen and maybe a bit more even. A community participant searching to join Tizen should not have false beliefs what the community will be in the future, but should feel like there is a clear place to be at both now and in the future. What kind of separation there is and will be for being in the vendor community, the system development community, or the application development community, while being either a company or an individual? So for Tizen 2.0, I'd hope for more clear understanding what Tizen is, and what ”parts” of Tizen are there – Tizen distribution, Tizen vendors, Tizen community, Tizen application API, Tizen operators. It's fine to keep some parts more closed than others, but it'd be good to be actually specified (with reasoning) how everything is compared to eg. something completely open like Debian. (as a remark, I did not ask for the Tizen developer device while in SF, but it's good that they're spread out to enable developers)

BY Newton Chan, 14 May 2012 9:56 am

look @ this picture http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8143/7158804182_40f10188b5_c.jpg Dont you feel like someone had put a lot of thoughts & considerations to insure that we'll have the best comfort & experience when we're in the TDC environment as if we're VIPs? If the Tizen UI & usability team has the same level of conviction, elegance & thoughtfulness, then hundreds of millions of end users will have the same experience. http://tizentalk.com/2012/05/gallery-2012-tizen-developer-conference-day-1/ for more photos. btw tiled uniformly laidout icons on a small display is pleasant to look at imho :)

BY Newton Chan, 14 May 2012 9:09 am

whichever forum platform that works right & is available now, ideally organized in parallel to the Tizen community listserv groups, ie. Application-dev, General, IVI, Product-dev & documentation. Listserv is archaic & hard to use. Also provide inhouse & crowdsourced examples to the API documentation. PHP exploded in adoptation due to intuitive documentation & lots of sample codes.

BY x xiao, 13 May 2012 9:09 pm

is there a way to delete my account? I think not, which is strange.

BY jezra, 13 May 2012 2:03 pm

While it may be interesting, posting links (without adding any extra context) doesn't really add anything to the conversation, nor is it in line with the sort of feedback that was requested by Intel for this "contest". That being said, where else could you post? As far as I know, there is no developers forum or knowledge base for Tizen.

BY John Ixion, 13 May 2012 1:57 pm

yeah, I know, but: * I'm not participating in the contest; * The link previously posted is blocked by Firefox (don't know why); * It's a very interesting blogpost imo: the author is a Linaro member; * I've posted another interesting blogpost just above this one; * I've been an active participant in MeeGo/Tizen for years, I'm certainly not trying to "steal" contributions from others: the authors are clearly identified in the blogposts ;-)

BY jezra, 13 May 2012 10:00 am

It was someone elses experience. The blog that was linked to belongs to a different user who had already posted to this page.

BY yuning liang, 13 May 2012 8:51 am

> Try the Web Simulator Bob, thanks for the web emulator. looks cool in brief and will give an extensive try soon. if good, so we could forget about Tizen SDK u agree? >SDL Qt exclusion No worry, once Tizen open the whole source as long as their kernel source works, we could build whatever we want to build.

BY yuning liang, 13 May 2012 8:41 am

If I were from the Tizen guys, I feel absolutely sad about the experience you have on Tizen. Hope they will address that or just another Maemo/Meego/MoLin or whatever like platform, the market will kill it naturally no matter who is backing it if it does NOT have 1) usability for platform developer, app developer or user. 2) the technical edges against other platform 3) the money making side over the competitors for all partners We all know what Apple and Android for them to be so successful.

BY John Ixion, 13 May 2012 8:18 am

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