Samsung Opens Its TouchWiz Technology To Developers And Users

Samsung today announced its new “TouchWiz Connected Mobile Applications”, a unique platform for “rich connected mobile application” widgets that will be designed to run on Samsung’s lineup of TouchWiz touchscreen phones. With this application, both developers and end users will be able create new widgets for the platform. Tools for professional developers will be made available through the Eclipse IDE.

Samsung will also offer developers the opportunity to sell these third-party applications via a new Samsung Rich Connected Application storefront. Yahoo, Google and AccuWeather.com have already jumped in to launch widgets for the platform. Apart from this, Samsung plans to start a web-based tool that will allow end users to create their own widgets based on user-specific RSS feeds, and possibly even other custom content.

Source: PhoneScoop