Flutter for Tizen

Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google, for crafting beautiful, fast user experiences for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. Flutter works with existing code, is used by developers and organizations around the world, and is free and open source.

Flutter for Tizen is an extension to the Flutter SDK for building Flutter applications for Tizen devices. Samsung Smart TV based on Tizen supports Flutter since Tizen 6.0. You can develop and release Flutter applications to this device.

Flutter supports the followings:

• Supports one-source, multi-platform applications: Android / iOS / Windows / macOS / Linux / Web and Tizen
• Multiple devices can give the same user experience with the same UI.
• Supports fast development using hot reload and native code level performance.

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Guides

You can refer to the following documents when you develop and build Samsung Smart TV applications using Flutter SDK.

• Flutter documentation
  Flutter general development guides, tests, and debugging
  

• pub.dev
  The official package and plugin repository and usage guides for Flutter applications.
  

• Flutter-Tizen
  An extension to the Flutter SDK for building Flutter applications for Tizen devices including Samsung Smart TVs.
  

• Flutter-Tizen plugin
  Flutter plugins for Tizen and its guides
  

Compatability

Samsung Smart TVs support Flutter framework since Tizen 6.0. You can refer to the TV year models.

Setting up Environment

In order to develop a Flutter application for Samsung Smart TVs, you must set up Flutter application development environment. A Flutter application project must be created through Flutter-Tizen. You can refer to the following guides for this settings.

• Flutter-Tizen installation documents
• Supported Flutter-Tizen plugins

Development Tips

Input Device

When your application needs to interact with input device, the following guides may be helpful.

• Applications for TV need to respond to remote control input.
• Getting key input:
  • RawKeyboard
  • PhysicalKeyboardKey
  • LogicalKeyboardKey
• Remote control key value is converted to the keyboard key value. You can refer to the remote control key conversion table of Samsung Smart TVs.

Focus Effects

• Flutter engine automatically applies blur to a focused widget.
• Depending on the UX design of your application, the effect may not be clearly visible.
• Refer to the page listed below if you want to apply clearer effect to the focused widget.
  • Understanding Flutter's focus system
  • WidgetStateProperty: Example of changing color when widget is focused.
  NoteThe property name is different for each widget type. (foregroundColor, onPrimary, focusColor)

Video App Sample

• Share the video sample that will be used the most among TV applications.
  • MovieLab
  • video_player_tizen plugin

Additional Information

You can build a Flutter application and create a tpk package by build command.

flutter-tizen build tpk -ptv

Distributing Applications

You can publish Flutter applications to Samsung Smart TV Apps. You can refer to Flutter-Tizen github for the detailed guides about how to distribute Flutter applications to Samsung Smart TVs.

• Release Flutter-Tizen TV applications
• Samsung Apps TV Seller Office