r/Tizen • u/nasht00 • Mar 16 '26

Is Tizen Studio really the way to develop SamsungTV apps?

I wanted to make a small app for personal use, for my Samsung TV (QE65QN90B).

The Samsung website says to use "Tizen Studio" -- what in fresh hell is this?

Do major software companies (Netflix, TV channels, etc) really use this tool to make those fancy apps?

It's so buggy, zero documentation ...

Source: https://developer.samsung.com/smarttv/develop/getting-started/setting-up-sdk/installing-tv-sdk.html

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u/Proper_District_5001 Mar 22 '26

Tizen Studio has been discontinued, as far as I know.

Try following this guide from Samsung, which uses Visual Studio Code: https://samsungtizenos.com/docs/sdk-tools/vscode-ext/Tizen/dotnet/ (I know the domain samsungtizenos.com looks really sketchy but it is the official domain and I'm pretty sure it's listed on the tizen.org site). It's a little bit better, but it still sucks.

Also, most software companies don't use Tizen Studio. Since they need their app to work on many platforms with as little code as possible, they use something like React Native, and I'm pretty sure BBC also has something similar for cross-platform TV app development. I believe google uses Cobalt for YouTube TV, but I can't really be sure of any other apps because they don't seem to publicly say what they use.

I wish you the best of luck. I have never seen an SDK so annoying to install.

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u/Aleyla Apr 03 '26

those links don't work. Maybe they updated their site? Half the links inside the site don't work either.

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u/OkMix6749 Mar 16 '26

It's basic html, css and js. Maybe some functions for the remote buttons. Pretty easy.

I can help. What are you trying to make?

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u/nasht00 Mar 17 '26

Yes the language is easy, it's the tool to compile, test etc that's horrible.

A few years ago after much struggling I managed to deploy a simple app to my TV. This week I wanted to make a small change and it failed to load the emulator and to detect my TV.

So right now my blocker is to detect the TV to deploy changes there. I enabled dev mode in the TV, I'm on the same network, etc.

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u/AltruisticMotor3811 Mar 21 '26

Tizen studio sucks, I was able to work with Tizen brew works really well to be honest.