Tizen Studio Installation and Setup Guide

1. TIZEN STUDIO
INSTALLATION &
ENVIRONMENT SETUP
FOR DEVLAB

2. Installing Tizen Studio
Prerequisites
Check the following prerequisites before attempting to install Tizen Studio
 Computer for running the Tizen Studio with the following system
requirements:
◦ Ubuntu® 12.04 or 14.04 (32- or 64-bit), Microsoft Windows® 7/8/10 (32- or 64-bit),
Apple Mac OS® X 10.8(Mountain Lion) 64-bit, 10.9(Mavericks) 64-bit, 10.10
(Yosemite) 64-bit, 10.11 (El Capitan) 64-bit
◦ At least dual-core 2 GHz of CPU
◦ At least 3 GB of RAM memory
◦ At least 6 GB of free disk space
◦ Intel processor with Intel VT support (required for emulator)
 Oracle® Java* v8 or later installed (do not use OpenJDK)
◦ Download the Oracle JDK installer executable
◦ Execute the file and setup the path in the environment variables.

3. Installing Tizen Studio
 Download Tizen Studio 1.0 with IDE installer from
the following link
https://developer.tizen.org/development/tizen-
studio/download
 Run the Tizen Studio 1.0 installer

4.  Accept the software license agreement

5.  Basically, Tizen Studio is installed in the default
location specified in the installation settings
window, it can also be changed to your desired
directory. After setting the location, click Install

6.  Once you click install, the installer installs the
required packages and tools in the specified
directory. After installation launch the package
manager by clicking the Launch the Tizen Studio
Package Manager check box and clicking on
Finish

7.  The installer installs the basic mobile web
application platform and its IDE. Through the Tizen
Studio package manager, you can install additional
platforms and tools. Internet connection is needed
for the package manager to show all the available
tools, platforms and to install them

8.  In the package manager expand 2.4 Mobile, here
install Emulator and Native app. development IDE

9.  In addition to the 2.4 Mobile tools, Samsung
certificate extension has to be installed. In the
package manager click on Extension SDK tab->
install Samsung Certificate Extension. With this
step Tizen Studio installation is complete.

10. Setting up the Environment for
Development
 Open Tizen Studio. In the start click Tizen Studio

11.  Set a workspace in your desired location, then click
OK

12. Setting up the Emulator
 In the connection explorer window (highlighted
part) click on Emulator Manager-> Emulator
Manager windows opens

13.  In the Emulator Manager window, click on Create
which opens emulator configuration window

14.  In the emulator configuration window select mobile-
2.4 (basic) and click on Next

15.  In the emulator configuration window select HD
Mobile device definition and click on Next

16.  In the emulator configuration window, setup
emulator general properties like its Name, No. of
processors, RAM size. Navigate to Device,
Camera, Network, HW support tabs to configure
properties of your choice and click Finish (or you
can directly click Finish without editing any
properties i.e default properties are set).

17.  Now you can see an emulator in emulator
manager, select the emulator and click on Launch.
The emulator gets launched

18.  Once the emulator gets launched, it should be
seen in the connection explorer window

19. Running a sample application on
the emulator
 In the Tizen Studio, goto File-> click on Tizen project->
select Sample -> click on Next -> select Mobile -> click
on Next -> select Web Application -> click on Next

20.  Internet is required for loading sample applications
 Select any sample application, for example select
Exercise Planner in the Application category

21.  Click on Next

22.  Give a project name of your choice and click on
Finish.

23.  The web project Exercise Planner is created and
can be seen in the project explorer window

24.  To run the application, right click on the project
Exercise Planner in the project explorer-> select
Run As->select Tizen Web Application.

25.  The application gets installed on the emulator.
Check the emulator to see the application running

26. FAQ
1. My emulator is up and running but its not shown in the
connection explorer. What should I do?
To solve this issue open command prompt goto C:tizen-
studiotools and execute the command sdb connect
localhost:26101. The emulator comes up in the connection
explorer

27. FAQ
2. Installed the emulator but I am unable to launch it or the
emulator shows a black screen with a boot message
“Decompressing Kernel” for a long time?
The problem may be with the Intel HAXM driver which
automatically gets installed while installing the Tizen Studio but
in some cases it may fail. So try to install the HAXM driver
manually, download the driver from the following link
https://developer.tizen.org/development/tizen-
studio/download/installing-tizen-studio/hardware-accelerated-
execution-manager
Hardware requirements for Intel HAXM
 Intel processor with support for VT-x, EM64T, and Execute
Disable Bit
 At least 1 GB of available memory
To verify that Intel HAXM is running, open the command prompt
and execute the following command
sc query intelhaxm

28. FAQ
If you meet an installation failure because of hardware
requirements, check the BIOS/OS settings:
 Make sure VT is enabled in BIOS
 Make sure Execute Disable Bit is enabled in BIOS
 Make sure Data Execution Prevention is enabled in windows.
On the windows platform, click Control Panel > System >
Advanced system settings > Advanced tab > Performance
section, Options (or Settings) > Data Execution Prevention.
Make sure that DEP is enabled

29. FAQ
3. How to check if my system supports emulator or
not?
Most of the issues caused while setting up the
emulator are related to hardware virtualization or
graphic driver. A simple tool to check them is already
included in the Tizen Emulator package (located in
tizen-studio/tools/bin). Run the following tools from
the command prompt
 check-hax.exe
 check-gl.exe
Check if your system has an updated graphic driver,
support HAX and UG features, and has hardware GL
acceleration

30. FAQ