second test (milestone) release of the mobile platform . The release is aimed at familiarizing developers with the platform's new capabilities. Code is licensed under GPLv2, Apache 2.0, and BSD. Builds are available for the emulator, Raspberry Pi 3, odroid u3, odroid x u3, artik 710/530/533, and various mobile platforms based on armv7l and arm64 architectures.
The project is developed under the aegis of the Linux Foundation, primarily driven by Samsung in recent times. The platform continues the development of the MeeGo and LiMO projects and is distinguished by the ability to utilize Web API and web technologies (HTML5/JavaScript/CSS) to create mobile applications. The graphical environment is built on the Wayland protocol and the Enlightenment project's work, while services management is implemented using Systemd.
Tizen 5.5 M2:
- A high-level API for image classification, object detection in photographs, and face recognition using deep machine learning methods based on neural networks has been added. TensorFlow Lite package is used for processing models. Models in Caffe and TensorFlow formats are supported. A set of GStreamer plugins has been added. ;
- Support for multi-window environments and devices with multiple screens has been added;
- A backend for using the Android platform's rendering API has been added to the DALi subsystem (3D UI Toolkit);
- A Motion API for rendering vector animation has been added, based on the library ;
- Optimization of D-Bus rules has been carried out, and memory consumption has been reduced;
- Support for .NET Core 3.0 has been added, along with a Native UI API for C#;
- The ability to add custom effects for window opening animations when launching applications has been implemented. A ready-made effect for animating window switching has been added;
- Support for the DPMS (Display Power Management Signaling) protocol has been added for transitioning the screen to a power-saving mode;
- A Sticker Framework for extracting information from identification stickers has been added;
- A distributed web engine (Multi-Device Distributed Web Engine) based on Chromium has been added, allowing web content processing to be distributed across multiple devices. The Chromium-efl engine has been updated to release 69;
- A quick connection mode to wireless networks (DPP - Wi-Fi easy connect) has been added. Connman has been updated to release 1.37 with support for WPA3, and
wpa_supplicant has been updated to release 2.8; - The Battery-Monitor framework has been added to track resource consumption by applications and analyze their impact on energy consumption;
- EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Library) has been updated to version 1.23. Wayland has been updated to version 1.17. The libwayland-egl library has been added. Support for programmable keys has been added to the Enlightenment display server.
Source: opennet.ru
