This is the testing app that the Forms team drafted up for automated UI tests and manual verification of (new) Xamarin.Forms features.

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For some reason, I had tried to get Tizen up and running on a (virtual) Windows machine where I couldnt get the emulator to work.

One member of the Tizen team reminded me that you could also develop and run Tizen apps on your Mac.

In this post, I will show you how to get started with Tizen, focussed on Xamarin.Forms.

I already had it installed because its a great tool and I already used it to create a Chrome extension earlier.

To install the Tizen development tools, simply start VS Code and go to the Extensions pane as you can see in the image underneath.

If you have, click yes and enter the existing path to the installation.

If you press No, it will first install all the required packages for Tizen.

You can keep your eye on the progress from the VS Code console window that comes up.

You should be able to activate it with CMD Shift P on your Mac or go to View Command Palette.

In the text box that comes up, start typing Tizen package and it will suggest to you to launch the Tizen package manager.

At the time of writing, 5.0 seems to be the latest available version.

I dont think it doesnt matter very much which one you chose, it all runs on the same platform so it should look and work more or less the same.

If you want to test it on all form factors, install one of each.

To install the necessary tools and SDK, simply click the Install button corresponding to your choice.

At least, when doing Xamarin development, but I have a feeling this is also true for plain Tizen development.

Since I was only interested in implementing a feature in Xamarin.Forms for Tizen, I didnt really look into the native tooling.

You have IntelliSense available and together with the documentation, you can get started with the Tizen APIs pretty quickly.

At the time of writing, there is, unfortunately, no integration with VS for Mac and Tizen.

While I did get everything set up pretty quickly, still debugging and running is a bit of a problem.

Also, developing works, since you will get IntelliSense and everything, but building the full Xamarin.Forms solution from VS Code didnt seem to work.

Tizen Studio Code Was Implemented

All code was implemented in theory, so I just needed to verify.

Tizen Studio For Mac