Emulator “Device initialization failed” with macOS and Tizen 2.x Web app development issues

Emulator “Device initialization failed” with macOS and Tizen 2.x Web app development issues

BY 18 Jun 2018 SDK & IDE

Hey,

I’m having hard time getting started with the Web application development for Tizen TVs (OS 2.3 and 2.4). I installed the latest version of Tizen Studio (2.4).

When I try to launch the emulator with default “tv-samsung-4.0-x86” device configuration (CPU VT and GPU is set to ON) I get the following error:

“-device vigs,backend=gl,wsi=vigs_wsi: Device initialization failed”

Could someone please help with this issue? Could not find any working solution for this problem.

My system:
macOS High Sierra
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017)
2,9 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3
Graphics: 
Radeon Pro 560 4 GB
Intel HD Graphics 630 1536 MB

Other issues and concerns

  • What version of Tizen Studio I should use for developing Web applications for these quite new Samsung Digital Signage screen such as PM32F? These have Tizen 2.x if I’m correct.
  • Is Tizen 2.x Web app compatible with Tizen 3.x-4.x versions? So if I build my app that is targetted for Tizen 2.3, should it run also with the latest Tizen versions such as 4.0?

Note: I also added this post to Samsung Developer forums but perhaps this questions belongs more here.

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