Monogame: Add Tizen Platform

[tomspilman]

Samsung has now officially partnered with Microsoft to provide .NET to Tizen devices. There is a preview SDK up now:

https://developer.tizen.org/development/preview

We need to implement a Tizen backend for MonoGame.

[tomspilman]

The preview seems to unfortunately not have support for OpenGL or any graphics API. So we could start to setup support, but we can't get stuff rendering until the preview is updated.

[harry-cpp]

unfortunately not have support for OpenGL or any graphics API

That is kind of expected.., but aren't we gonna write our own bindings for OpenGL anyway?

[tomspilman]

@cra0zy - Great point! I wonder if we just pinvoke for OpenGL if it would just work?

Anyone have time to investigate?

[harry-cpp]

I'll try getting some Tizen stuff working tomorrow.

[KonajuGames]

Tizen OpenGL ES drivers are standard shared objects, as described here.
https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/3.0_Porting_Guide/Graphics_and_UI/OpenGL
Our bindings should work fine with these.

OpenGL using the view components provided by Tizen is described here.
https://developer.tizen.org/development/guides/native-application/graphics/opengl-es/creating-opengl-es-applications

[harry-cpp]

It seems I can't get tizen emulator to run on my system...

[tomspilman]

@cra0zy - Hum... that sucks. This on Windows or Linux?

[harry-cpp]

Windows.

[KonajuGames]

I'll give it a go this weekend. See if I can get the emulator to run.

[harry-cpp]

This gotta be the worst emulator ever, I tried running it on Ubuntu, had to install some outdated libs (which they didn't even mention in the documentation, had to read the logs of the emulator), and after that found that the emulator segfaults...

[harry-cpp]

I really like how the tizen c# SDK adds an actual tizen project:

So I guess we are doing xamarin forms version of MG?

[tomspilman]

@cra0zy @KonajuGames - New Tizen SDK release...

https://twitter.com/TizenProject/status/847769956808704000

If someone wants to take a look at this again.

[harry-cpp]

Still offering only Xamarin Forms templates...

[Romans-I-XVI]

I don't personally have any knowledge for how to accomplish this task. But I would like to say +1 at least, I would use this.

[SirDragonClaw]

Is there anyone currently working on this? What is the current state of this port?

With Tizen 4.0 and the new galaxy watch, I have the strong desire to get monogame running on it...

[Jjagg]

Nothing has been done for Tizen in the main repo.

[tomspilman]

@CrimsonCastel - If anyone wants to champion getting Tizen support into MG we're all for it.