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Gear Manager application on Tizen phone?

"Samsung Gear Application consists of the Host-side Application which runs on Android-based Samsung mobile devices, and the Wearable-side Widget which runs on Tizen-based Samsung Gear devices. The Host-side Application can be developed in the common Android development environment, whereas, the Wearable-side Widget can be developed with Tizen SDK for Wearable."


So when we have Tizen phones, we're obviously going to want to pair Gear devices with Tizen phones as well as Galaxy Android phones.

Is there any specific roadmap for achieving that?    Would it be a criteria for initial Samsung Tizen phone launches, for example?

While we're on this topic, is there a roadmap for Gear Manager being SUPPORTED on non-Galaxy Android devices?    That flow is already confirmed to be largely functional, given some "fancy dancing" - http://www.tizenexperts.com/2014/04/samsung-gear-2-gear-2-neo-working-on-non-samsung-devices/.

 

Cheers,

Bob Summerwill, Kitsilano Software Inc

 

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Corstian Boerman

Hi Bob,

The link you sent is about users using Samsung their apps on non Samsung Android phones. Right now there's nothing available for iOS/Windows Phone/Tizen.

There are two things we can do to make the Gear (2) work with non Android phones:

  1. Reverse engineer Samsung's Gear Manager application and port it over to the other platforms.
  2. Write a custom firmware for the Gear 2 (Maybe also the Gear 1) which is compatible with all platforms. (Which is possible because Samsung released the source right here: http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=sub&sub=F&searchValue=r381)

Right now I'm trying to make the Gear 2 work with non Android phones. Sadly I can't give any ETA.

 

Cheers,

Corstian

I read that tizen 2.3 sdk will have support for wearable ..!!

Corstian Boerman

You mean this? http://developer.samsung.com/events/developer-blog/news/Tizen-SDK-for-Samsung-Gear-2-and-Gear-2-Neo-Available-Starting-Today

Alex Ashirov

Hi,

It was discussed recently. They told about Tizen 3.0.

https://developer.tizen.org/forums/general-support/can-rd-pq-connect-gear2