Changing the Default Tizen 5.0 Project for Samsung TVs

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When using Tizen Studio if you start a project from one of the templates for a TV you may find that the project won’t deploy to a Samsung Consumer TV. There are a couple of changes that can be made to take care of this.

One is to edit the config.xml. There are a couple of lines in it to be changed. There is an element named tizen:profile with a name attribute of “tv”. Change this to “tv-samsung”. The other is in a file that isn’t listed by the IDE named “.tproject”. Under the Platform element is a text value of “tv-5.0”. Change this to “tv-samsung-5.0”. I’ve found that even on a TV running Tizen 4.0 that these changes are sufficient to work. Just don’t use any Tizen 5.0 features on a display that is running an older OS.