Smart TV (Tizen) Link opener
Introduction
Simple Tizen Smart TV Xamarin Form .NET application to receive http links via HTTP PUT, open them into a browser.
Requirements
Install Tizen .Net
Download and install Tizen SDK
Visual Studio Code
Check and install extension
Developer mode on Smart TV
Open Apps and enter ‘12345’. Enable developer mode and enter the ip address of your developer machine (that will be used to deliver installation package to TV).
Application
Template
dotnet tizen new Tizen.NET.Template55.Cross.NETStandard -v tizen-5.5 to create Xamarin.Forms application. Remove all projects which are not connected to TV.
Add smart TV device
Run the following command in C:\tizen-studio\tools:
.\sdb.exe connect 192.168.1.4
where 192.168.1.4 is IP of smart TV device
Test
Check that C:\tizen-studio\tools\ide\bin is in Path of environment settings.
Build the project by tizen build-cs and run tizen install -n <path-to-tpk> where <path-to-tpk> is showed during the building.
The installation of an application should be started.
Link opener
Add permission to tizen-manifest.xml to allow launching external application.
<privileges>
<privilege>http://tizen.org/privilege/appmanager.launch</privilege>
</privileges>
The code to open a link into a browser
Tizen.Applications.AppControl.SendLaunchRequest(new Tizen.Applications.AppControl
{
Operation = Tizen.Applications.AppControlOperations.View,
Uri = link,
LaunchMode = Tizen.Applications.AppControlLaunchMode.Single
});