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How do you connect the Samsung Galaxy Gear S2 to the TizenSDK?

There's virtually no information on the Tizen site that explains how someone is suppose to connect their Samsung Galaxy Gear S2 smartwatch to the TizenSDK. There is no USB plug on the watch. Plugging the dock in to my PC does nothing.

 

EDIT: After hours of searching I was able to find developer.samsung.com/technical-doc/view.do?v=T000000251. However, attempting to publish a sample wearable app to my device gave the following error:

 

Error code: SIGNATURE_INVALID
Error message: 
Command: /usr/bin/pkgcmd -i -q -t wgt -p "/opt/usr/apps/tmp/testuicomponentssample.wgt"
Management: Check author certificates in Preferences > Tizen SDK > Secure Profiles > Profile items.

 

When I looked up a video on how to sign my apps (youtube.com/watch?v=Xy2B-nlnprg), it tells me to go to the device preferences and grab the DUID. But that device preferences doesn't show a DUID field.

Edited by: offbynull on 19 Oct, 2015
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offbynull

Attempting to develop on the Tizen platform has been an incredibly frustrating experience...

 

 

  1. English translations in the SDK are wrong.
  2. The Tizen developer site is incredibly slow to respond and contains outdated/incorrect documentation.
  3. The SDK took 3 attempts to install.
  4. The emulator doesn't seem to support emulating a round watch.

 

 

​This entire platform is a convoluted sloppy mess. It doesn't even compare to developing on Android.

AVSukhov

Hello,

I think, after the transition to Tizen 2.4, all documentation (wearable and mobile) will be transferred to unified format. I hope that it is necessary wait a bit.

Regarding Android, what level of detail has been a guide for development in 2008/2009.

offbynull

This is a terrible, terrible platform to develop on... one of the worst I've experienced in my decade in this industry. Why do I need a Samsung account and a certificate to test apps on my own device?

 

The SDK installs with support for Wearables, but you also need to download a separate "Wearables SDK Extension" module before you can push to your device? how does that make any sense? why didn't you just bundle the extension with the base SDK? And even when you download the extension, why can't you just point to the folder where you downloaded the extension instead of manually punching in a file:// url?

 

Tizen is just one bad design decision after another. From the development platform, to the broken english in the Tizen SDK, to the confusing concept of "SDK Extensions", to the obscure and ill-formatted documentation, to this broken question and answer site. Everything is very, very bad. Just terrible.

 

AVSukhov

Hello,

Can only hope that your comments (among them a lot of useful) will be taken into consideration in the future SDK releases. And Tizen platform will be displayed on a higher level of usability.

 

jezra

A comparison to 2008/2009 Android is not very accurate. Android initial release was in 2008. Tizen's initial release was in 2012. As it is now 2015, it would be far more accurate to compare   against 2011/2012 Android.

daniel kim

Hi,

You can find document about connecting to Gear S2 in below link.

      http://developer.samsung.com/technical-doc/view.do?v=T000000251

As well as sample code, necessary document to developer Samsung Gear S2 can be found in below Samsung developer site.

     http://developer.samsung.com/technical-doc/list.do?pi=1&ps=10&pb=Y&ct=CT030000&sc=

Regards