Tizen 2.0 source code and SDK are now available download. The new version is described as a “major milestone” that includes many new features and improvements (when compared to Tizen 1.0 and Tizen 2.0 alpha). Here’s what’s new:
- Enhanced Web framework that provides state-of-the-art HTML5/W3C API support
- Web UI framework that includes full-screen and multi-window support
- Additional Tizen device APIs like Bluetooth and NFC support, as well as access to the device’s calendar, call history and messaging subsystems
- Web Runtime framework supporting new configuration elements for specifying the required features and privileges, and providing the basic runtime environment for NPRuntime plugins
- Native framework with support to full-featured application development that provides a variety of features such as background applications, IP Push and Text-To-Speech
- Core and native reference applications including Calendar, Contacts, Gallery, Phone, Settings and Video Player
- Enhanced Web IDE providing WYSIWYG design environment, Chrome-based JavaScript inspector and JavaScript log viewer
- Native IDE providing a project wizard, WYSIWYG design environment, unit test tool and dynamic analyzer
So if you’re a developer, you can download documentation and tools from here. The SDK is can be found on this page.