New partnership with Microsoft aims to expand app availability on Tizen

posted by Joe M. / Nov 17, 2016, 11:47 AM

New partnership with Microsoft aims to expand app availability on Tizen

Looking back on Samsung and their activities in 2016, the company kicked out some pretty solid handsets, Albeit for the debacle with the Note 7, the Galaxy S7 series, Gear S3, Gear Fit 2, and Gear IconX all brought something new and fresh to the table. They may not all be the best devices in their class, but each one certainly has something unique and interesting to bring to the table. Although 2016 may be on its way out the door, Samsung hasn't stopped with their efforts in the mobile landscape. The company recently announced that they would be investing a grand total of $9 million to get more developers to create apps for their Tizen operation system, and in a recent announcement that Samsung would be partnering up with Microsoft, it looks like Sammy is taking even more steps to do something once and for all about the lack of apps for their own OS.

Thanks to the new deal between Samsung and Microsoft, the two companies will be working together on "open source projects, such as .NET Core and Xamarin.Forms, to enable .NET support for Tizen." According to a press release from Samsung -

The first preview supports mobile application development with device emulators and an extension to Visual Studio with full IntelliSense and debugging capabilities. Support for Smart TVs, wearables, and other IoT devices will be added in future releases.

What's all this mean though? With Samsung now officially joining the Microsoft .NET community, developers will now be able to use Microsoft's Visual Studio to create apps for Tizen in the C# language. Samsung says that more than 50 million gadgets are currently powered by the Tizen OS, and with the expansion to allow developers to create apps for the platform with a system that they're comfortable with and native to, we should start seeing more and more apps make their way to Samsung's baby in the near future.

We recently held a poll to see what our readers though about Tizen, and almost half of the results came back with people saying that Samsung should continue to work on it and make it better. A move like this certainly is a step in that direction to improve the quality of the OS, and with .NET support being released and shipped on Tizen-powered devices starting in 2017, we won't have to wait too much longer to start seeing the results of this partnership.

source: Samsung via Android Authority

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7 Comments

1. FluffyBled unregistered

Is Tizen the Android of the Symbian era? Maybe not, but it'll certainly be a competitor soon enough!

posted on Nov 17, 2016, 1:33 PM 0

2. kefalin

Posts: 292; Member since: Feb 08, 2015

I dont think so,it reminds me Bada or touchwiz os back in a day. It was same as Android at first glance and looked promising,but no apps in store and slow development that couldnt keep up with Android. In 3rd world it might be success,but i dont see place for 3rd OS,many have tried and many have failed (MS, Jola,Blackberry etc)

posted on Nov 17, 2016, 2:37 PM 1

3. FluffyBled unregistered

That is exactly where Tizen has the potential to shinr ... since Tizen apps can be built using HTML5, CSS3 and JS aswell as C/C++, the first option being extremely convenient.

posted on Nov 17, 2016, 3:14 PM 1

4. Martin_Cooper

Posts: 1774; Member since: Jul 30, 2013

Its an OS thats available only on tiny fraction of samsung low end phones. Who the f**k will care for this OS? NO ONE. Unless they start putting it on all of their phones.

posted on Nov 17, 2016, 5:40 PM 2

5. KingSam

Posts: 1395; Member since: Mar 13, 2016

Too bad Android doesn't use c# as a native language.

posted on Nov 17, 2016, 6:16 PM 0

6. joey_sfb

Posts: 6794; Member since: Mar 29, 2012

I think its great, Samsung and Microsoft able to see past their differences. I also suspect the success of Google Pixels has spooked Samsung to retaliate on Google. Also signal Microsoft view WP success as a nice have and a must have.

posted on Nov 17, 2016, 8:54 PM 0

7. johnh3

Posts: 142; Member since: Aug 23, 2012

Interesting. I think Google have play a dangerous game with the Pixel phones. So it could result that Samsung speed up the Tizen development and even releasing flagship device with it.