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DISTRIBUTION OF TIZEN-BASED WATCH APPS HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED
Thank you for your interest in becoming a Galaxy Watch face designer! For Galaxy Watch4 and later, you are no longer required to have a watch face design partnership with Samsung in order to distribute watch face designs.
Starting with Galaxy Watch4, Samsung switched the watch OS from Tizen to Wear OS Powered by Samsung and new watch apps developed for Galaxy Watch4 and later are distributed through Google Play Store.
If you are a first-time watch face designer or developer: Welcome! You are not required to have a watch face design partnership with Samsung in order to distribute your designs in Play Store. Discover the options for developing apps for Galaxy Watch, including Watch Face Studio and the Play Store Asset Creator. You can learn more about the principles of Wear OS development and distributing to Wear OS from the Android Developer web site.
If you are a previous watch face designer or developer: On February 8, 2023, you will no longer be able to register new Tizen-based watch apps in Seller Portal. Instead, we ask that you create your new watch apps for Wear OS Powered by Samsung and distribute them from the Play Store for the latest Galaxy Watches. Note that you can continue to update your existing Tizen-based watch apps in Seller Portal.
If you use Galaxy Watch Studio for Tizen, we provide some tools to help you transition to Wear OS Powered by Samsung, including Watch Face Studio and the Galaxy Watch Studio Converter.