Samsung Web API Specifications
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Introduction
The APIs listed in this category are supported for Samsung convergence devices. Some APIs will be supported only for specific device types or platforms.
| Module | Description | Supported platform |
|---|---|---|
| Primitive | ||
| Application | This API provides information about running and installed applications. | tizen, android |
| Alarm | This API provides functionality for setting and unsetting alarms. | tizen, android |
| WebAPIs | This API provides generic APIs and exception handling. | all |
| File System | ||
| File system | This API provides access to a device's file system | tizen, android |
| Multimedia | ||
| Content | This API provides functionality to discover contents (such as images, videos or music). | tizen, android |
| Device Information | ||
| Power | This API provides support for requesting power management related resource states. | tizen, android |
| System Information | This API provides information about the device's CPU, battery, storage and display. | tizen, android |
| System Setting | This API provides interfaces and methods providing Web applications with access to various values of the system. | tizen, android |
| Time | This API exposes information about date, time and time zones. | tizen, android |
| Network Communication | ||
| Bluetooth | This API enables control over Bluetooth. | tizen, android |
| NFC | This API allows access to NFC device(s). | tizen, android |
| Message Port | This API provides the functionality for communicating with other applications. | tizen, android |
| Download | This API provides interfaces and methods to asynchronously download the contents of a URL to a storage. | tizen, android |
| Messaging | ||
| Call History | This API provides interfaces and methods for retrieving information for Call history | tizen, android |
| Messaging | This API allows SMS, MMS, IM and Email message sending and retrieval. | tizen, android |
| Personal Information Management | ||
| Calendar | This API enables the management of calendar information. | tizen, android |
| Contact | This API enables the management of contact information. | tizen, android |
| TV Control | ||
| AudioControl | This API provides control of a TV’s audio related functions (volume, mute, etc.). | smart tv |
| AV Play | This API provides interfaces and methods for playback of media content encrypted with DRM. | smart tv |
| DisplayControl | This API provides interfaces and methods for a TV’s display features, like 3D effects, etc. | smart tv |
| Image View | This API provides interfaces and methods for the control of a local image viewer which supports DRM content. | smart tv |
| TV | This API provides an interface to provide a logical group of TV related modules: info, channel, window. | smart tv |
| TV Channel | This API provides interfaces and methods for control of channel selection on a TV | smart tv |
| TV Info | This API provides interfaces and methods for obtaining TV specific system information | smart tv |
| TV Window | This API provides interfaces and methods for TV source relative functions of a TV | smart tv |
| AllShare | ||
| Service Management | This API allows developers to initiate the AllShare Framework (ASF). | all |
| Device Discovery | This API allows developers to get a list of discovered AllShare devices with a specified ID, domain and NIC. | all |
| Media Sharing | ||
| Content Discovery | ||
| Provider | This API allows developers to share media content between DLNA devices. | all |
| Item | The Item API provides access to the content information. | all |
| Playback Content | ||
| AV Player | This API allows developers to stream audio or video and control the AV player. | tizen, android |
| Image Viewer | This API allows developers to display images and control the image viewer. | tizen, android |
| Control Sharing | ||
| Smart TV Control | ||
| TV Controller | This API allows developers to provide the generic remote key control and control the TV browser on a Samsung Smart TV. | tizen, android |
| View Controller | This API allows developers to control the view available on a Samsung Smart TV in detail. | tizen, android |
| Samsung Chord | ||
| Chord Service | This API provides the chord service that can be used to build new exciting distributed applications. | android, tizen |
| N-Service | ||
| N-Service | This API provides a communication channel with any client devices which will be attached to Smart TV. | android, tizen, smart tv |
| Multiscreen | ||
| Multiscreen | This API provides provides interfaces and methods for a TV and mobile devices to communicate with each other. | android, smart tv |
| Wearable | ||
| SAP | The Samsung Accessory Service Framework allows service discovery and the creation of Accessory Service Connections between Application Level Entities (ALE) for data exchange using the Samsung Accessory Protocol(SAP). | android, tizen, wearable |
| IrLed | This API provides access to a device's IrLed. | wearable |
| Motion | This API defines interfaces and methods to manage motion data from various sensors on the device. | wearable |