Samsung has recently released the much awaited SDK 4.0 for the 2013 series of Smart TV Platforms. This means a whole lot of new features and functionalities have been added and the TV app developer community can build TV apps with these new features and functionalities for an amazing user experience. To experience some of the Smart TV Apps on the Samsung TV’s visit the Samsung Smart Hub (Smart TV App store ) US Store , India Store
Lets look at what the SDK 4.0 has to offer. The toolset includes an Eclipse-based application editor, Visual Editor, debugger, and Smart TV Emulators for current and past TV platforms.
The Mac OS X and Linux platforms are now supported by the Samsung Smart TV SDK. In addition to the Eclipse-based App Editor, a new Linux-based Emulator has been released. This Emulator executes in an Ubuntu virtual machine that is run in the Virtual Box virtualization tool.
This release also marks the introduction of the Cloud Emulator. The Emulator is hosted on a remote server that developers can connect to using a “thin client” Emulator on their development machine. Currently, this feature is supported only on the Mac OS X platform.
■ [Editor]
- Open Samsung Smart TV Semantic Service
- Support for Mac OS X and Linux platforms
- Full WYSIWYG code editing (visual editor and code editor are synced)
- 6 new Visual Editor components (arrowbutton, hscrollbar, pageindicator, slidern, togglebutton, tooltip)
- Smooth re-sizing of components
- Web Inspector (debugger) support
■ Features for 2013 Platform on Windows
- Smart Interaction: Gesture events have been added (New HI (including Gesture) Simulator).
- Apps Framework
- 2013 App Engine (HTML5 Video/Audio, WebSocket, WebGL)
- UniPlayer
- SEF (Service Extension Framework)
- Convergence Framework
- OCI (Open Convergence Interface) : MIDI support
- MPEG Dash
- AllShare
- In-App Ads
- Flash 11.1
- Smooth Streaming
- Web Inspector support
- ATT (Automatic Test Tool) : User can record and playback input events for testing.
■ Features for 2013 Platform on Linux (First Release)
- Apps Framework
- App Engine / WebKit
- UniPlayer
- SEF (Service Extension Framework)
■ Features for 2013 Platform on Mac (First Release)
- Apps Framework
- App Engine / WebKit
- UniPlayer
- SEF (Service Extension Framework)
- Cloud Emulator client for Mac OS X
With this release I see a great potential in Video streaming apps for entertainment companies. TV channels / Video on Demand categories can best utilize these features. With motion sensors, the Minority Report style of experience is very much possible in the apps. Gaming experience will be amazing. Social interactivity will increase. Education is another space which can better utilize this platform. A whole new world of opportunities awaits . I am sure with Samsung and other OEM’s focusing a lot on R & D , we can expect this space to evolve.
The TV Apps space will do well in countries where broadband speeds are good. To experience the streaming content on the smart Tv’s a high speed internet is required. India is yet to catch up, once 4G/wimax is launched, this space will see some growth. But in countries like US where Technology adoption is faster and better, will see tremendous growth with Europe and Australia markets picking up well.
If you are interested in keeping track of this space you can follow the following Networking/Professional/Developer Groups @ Linkedin
Smart TV/Connected TV/Social TV App Developers (700+ Members)
Samsung Smart TV Apps ( 170+ Members)
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