Blog Archive

June 2016

Tizen Developments on Display at Unite Europe 2016

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Game developer conference Unite Europe took place on May 31 in Amsterdam, with about 3,000 attendees gathering to discuss the game industry’s latest trends and future prospects. The conference will be held until June 2.

 
Unite is hosted by the famous 3D game engine company ‘Unity’, and is the world’s largest series of mobile gaming events. Unite conferences are held at various cities all over the globe. Previous Unite Conferences have taken place this year in Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai and further events are slated to take place in Brazil, Southeast Asia, United States and Australia.
 
This year, Samsung, one of Unity’s strategic partners, participated in Unite Europe to showcase Tizen platform and to encourage developers build Tizen apps using unity game engine tools.

Samsung Meets Mobile Game Developers in India at Pocket Gamer Connects 2016

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Samsung game developers met at the Bangalore, India edition of the Pocket Gamer Connects 2016 conference, which was held April 21 to 22. About 2,000 developers discussed the latest trends in gaming and the prospects for their future at the conference, the world’s largest series of mobile gaming events. 

At this year’s Bangalore event, Samsung’s booth presented an important development, the popular and powerful Unity 3D game engine coming to Tizen. Visitors to the exhibition were able to try out Tizen Unity demo for the Z1 and Z3 smartphones, Gear S2 wearable devices and Samsung Smart TV.
 
Samsung launched the first Tizen smartphone, the Z1, in India in 2015, and the following product, the Z3, has been receiving positive responses in the Indian market. Samsung also held a Tizen Developer Summit in Bengaluru to establish Tizen ecosystem with developers and partners in India. 
 
Check out these photos of the Unity 3D game engine for Tizen in use at the Bangalore Pocket Gamer Connects 2016.

Samsung Committed to Bringing React Native to Tizen

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Facebook announced React Native at F8 conference which took place from April 12 to 13 and also mentioned Samsung is committed to bringing React native to Tizen. React Native is an open source project which is the cross-platform app framework that help developers to build native app using javascript. Until now, Facebook supported developers to use React Native in order to build app much easier. Samsung have also developed React Native framework to allow developers to port the Facebook app to a Tizen device.  

Read more here: http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/13/facebooks-react-native-open-source-project-gets-backing-from-microsoft-and-samsung/. 

Tizen at Unite Seoul 2016

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“The consumer choice will grow when Tizen ecosystem expands” 

The game developer conference ‘Unite’ is hosted by the popular global software game company ‘Unity’ and took place from April 7 to 8 in Seoul, Korea. Unity is the world’s favorite game engine for creating mobile games and is the tool that will allow developers to quickly achieve stunning results

This year, Samsung Electronics as one of the strategic partner of Unity, participated in the event to showcase Tizen game apps and presented a special session on how to port Unity game app to Tizen platform using its SDK (Software Development Kit). The conference attendees also had an opportunity to experience popular Tizen Unity game app ‘Lonely one’ on TV, mobile and wearable devices.

The game application ‘Lonely One’ demonstrated at Samsung’s booth.

Samsung Brings Game Developers and Tizen Together at GDC 2016

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The Game Developers Conference, being held this year from March 14 to 18 in San Francisco, is the world’s largest annual event in the gaming industry. With some 26,000 gaming professionals on hand, GDC is the hot-bed for all the latest trends, experiments and innovations in gaming—and Samsung is there, too.

This year, Samsung Electronics—in cooperation with Unity—is presenting an important development, bringing the popular and powerful Unity 3D game engine to Tizen. Visitors to the exhibition were able to try out Tizen Unity demo for the Z1 and Z3 smartphones, as well as for Samsung Smart TV.

Through this powerful new tool, developers will be better able to create engaging, innovative games for the latest Tizen-powered devices.

Check out these photos of the Unity 3D game engine for Tizen in use at GDC 2016.

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Samsung staff demonstrates the benefits of the Unity engine for app development on Tizen platform at GDC 2016.