Launching AppStore from Samsung Tizen TV App

Question

I'm trying to implement a button in Javascript based Tizen TV application. Upon clicking the button it should open App Store page of another application.

I'm referring to these documents: https://developer.tizen.org/sites/default/files/documentation/tizen2.3_deep_linking_guide_v1.0.pdf https://developer.tizen.org/ko/community/tip-tech/linking-your-application?langredirect=1 Deeplinking to youtube content on Samsung TV (Tizen)

I have added the following privileges in config.xml

  <tizen:privilege name="http://tizen.org/privilege/application.launch"/>
  <tizen:privilege name="http://tizen.org/privilege/appmanager.launch"/>

window.tizen is returning the following object

{"BundleValueType":{"STRING":"STRING","STRING_ARRAY":"STRING_ARRAY","BYTES":"BYTES","BYTES_ARRAY":"BYTES_ARRAY"},"cordova":{"file":{},"globalization":{}},"tvinputdevice":{},"systeminfo":{},"account":{},"alarm":{"PERIOD_MINUTE":60,"PERIOD_HOUR":3600,"PERIOD_DAY":86400,"PERIOD_WEEK":604800},"application":{},"archive":{},"filesystem":{"maxNameLength":255,"maxPathLength":4096},"content":{},"datacontrol":{},"download":{},"exif":{},"iotcon":{"deviceName":""},"keymanager":{},"mediacontroller":{},"mediakey":{},"messageport":{},"package":{},"push":{},"time":{},"tvaudiocontrol":{},"tvchannel":{},"tvdisplaycontrol":{},"tvinfo":{},"tvwindow":{},"voicecontrol":{},"websetting":{}}

Here window.tizen.application is an empty object

But we need to get window.tizen.application.launch OR window.tizen.applciation.launchAppControl to implement this functionality (as per above documents)

Does anyone have any idea why it's not available?

Answer 1

You need the application.launch privilege.

config.xml

<tizen:privilege name="http://tizen.org/privilege/application.launch"/>

---

Once the privilege is set, you can use window.tizen.launchAppControl().

const appIdFromSellerOffice = '0343289392' // You should know this and it also writes in the URL of the seller office

const appControl = new window.tizen.ApplicationControl(
  'http://tizen.org/appcontrol/operation/view',
  null,
  null,
  null,
  [
    new window.tizen.ApplicationControlData('Sub_Menu', ['detail']),
    new window.tizen.ApplicationControlData('widget_id', [appIdFromSellerOffice]),
    new window.tizen.ApplicationControlData('caller_id', [appIdFromSellerOffice]),
  ],
)

window.tizen.application.launchAppControl(appControl, 'com.samsung.tv.store', onSuccess, onError, null)