Wants developers to bring web apps to its range of smartphones.
Samsung has opened up its TouchWiz mobile widgets platform to third-party developers, and is encouraging them to create widgets that will run across its range of handsets.
TouchWiz actually debuted last year, letting users flick between different widgets providing access to web-based services. However, developers didn't have access to the platform.
Now they do. Samsung has opened up access to its Samsung Mobile Innovator portal focused on TouchWiz, offering tools, SDKs, discussion boards and virtual handset emulators to help developers.
"As touch becomes more popular you can find this interface on increasingly more devices across the entire Samsung portfolio, whether they are built on Symbian, Windows Mobile or our own proprietary system which drives Samsung's feature phones," says the company's announcement.
The widgets use existing web authoring technologies HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Here's the interesting thing: Samsung says that developers making widgets for its phones can also port them to other devices.
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"This could be a mobile device from another manufacturer, a PC or even an appliance such as a Samsung Series-7 television."
