Sky Is the Limit for Qt Games on Tizen

We had the opportunity to ask software engineer Thorbjørn Lindeijer to share his experience of using Qt for Tizen for developing Source of Tales, an online roleplaying video game. On Tizen smartphones it's an adaptation of earlier code to a full Qt Quick app and thus runs with true OpenGL hardware acceleration.

Smartphone Sensors

Sensors App demonstrates rich Qt's support for sensors on Tizen smartphones. It is available in Qt for Tizen 1.0 Alpha 3 and newer.

Available sensors include rotation, compass, accelerometer, gravity, proximity and light sensor, gyroscope, and magnetometer.

Qt Joins Tizen Store Ecosystem

Many of you, Qt fans, may remember the recent alpha 2 update of the Qt application development platform for Tizen. It has enabled Qt applications to natively run on actual Tizen smartphones.

Now we have reached another milestone: Tizen Store Support! Today the Tizen Store team has accepted our first Qt Controls app created for test and educational purposes:

Qt 5.1 Cinematic Experience Demo on Tizen Devices

Qt Cinematic Experience is a famous QML application that demonstrates the power of Qt 5 and the new additions in Qt Quick 2.0. The app uses Qt Quick particles, sprites, path animations, shader effects and other cute graphical effects.

Qt Cinematic Experience demo app is running successfully on two different Tizen reference devices: RD-210 and RD-PQ. Both devices have been updated by flashing Tizen 2.1 (Nectarine) and the QML app is powered by Qt 5.1 for Tizen. Hardware acceleration has been enabled on the devices by installing Mali DDK for Tizen 2.1. The frame rate is approximately 60 frames per second on both devices.