Samsung TV .NET App Templates

Introduction

The Samsung TV .NET App Templates provides basic templates for developing Tizen .NET application. The Visual Studio Tools for Tizen provides Visual Studio extension that enables developing Tizen .NET applications.

Currently we are providing 2 templates:
1.Cross Template
2.NUI Template

To create the projects, Templates can be found in C#->Tizen Samsung TV "VERSION".0.

For more information about the extension, visit http://developer.samsung.com/tv.

For Feedback and Bug reports, please email tvsdk.sec@samsung.com

Features & Benefits

• Cross TEMPLATE:
  A multi project template for building apps with Xamrin.Forms, sharing code using a .NET Standard library.
  Platform specific features (TizenFX, TizenFX TV) are supported in this template.

• NUI TEMPLATE:
  A Single project template for building Tizen NUI apps with TizenFX TV.
  TizenFX API allows you to access platform-specific features not covered by the generic .NET and Xamarin.Forms features, such as system information and status, sensor date, and account and connectivity services.
  Tizen common .NET feature and additional TV feature are supported. Built app using this template can be run on Samsung TVs with Tizen 4.0 or above. It is not compatible with other Tizen devices.

  For more details : Please refer : https://developer.tizen.org/dev-guide/csapi/index.html

Pre-Requisite:

• In NuGet Package Manager check if following package server is added :
  https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json (To check :- Go to Tools->Nuget Package Manager->Package Manager Settings )

• Visual Studio Tools for Tizen:
  https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tizen.VisualStudioToolsforTizen

• Install Tizen TV SDK:
  To install Tizen TV SDK, Go to Tools->Tizen->Tizen Emulator manager
  Pop up will appear, select install Tizen TV SDK (e.g.: In path select c:/Tizen.Net)

Release Updates : Version 1.0.4:

• Tizen 5.0 Emulator:
  Version updated TV Extension Image : 5.0.1
  Emulator launch speed has been improved
  .NET 2.1 has been implemented
  .NET Core 2.1 has been implemented
  TizenFX TV 5.5.0 has been implemented
  The OpenTK and SkiaSharp libraries have been implemented
  
• Emulator Issue:
  OpenTK bugs have been fixed

#Release Updates: Version 1.0.4.1:
Minor Update:- changes in OpenTK Content App TEMPLATE.

#Release Updates: Version 1.17.1:
Minor Update:- All library version updates to support Latest Tizen SDK.

#Release Updates: Version 1.17.2:
Removing Support of OpenTK App Template.