June 2026: Samsung Dev Insight

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June 2026

Managing Staged Rollouts Using Content Publish API in Galaxy Store Seller Portal Galaxy Store’s Staged Rollout feature allows application updates to be released to a limited percentage of users rather than to all users at once. By rolling out an update gradually (for example, to 5% of users at first) developers can monitor the application's real-world stability, and if issues are detected, the rollout can be paused to help protect the remaining user base. As confidence in application stability grows, the rollout percentage can be programmatically increased up to 100%, ensuring safe and speedy global deployment.  This tutorial shows how to automate your rollout workflows using the Content Publish API and how to implement smooth, controlled releases. Learn more on our blog to discover how to deliver a better user experience with staged rollouts by improving application stability upon release and reducing manual effort. Learn more Samsung IAP SDK Updated to Version 6.5.2 Samsung In-App Purchase SDK version 6.5.2 is released, deploying the SDK to the Maven Central Repository and enhancing developer convenience significantly. Starting from with this version, developers can simply declare a dependency in their build.gradle file to automatically download and integrate the library, streamlining the development process. This update also includes improvements such as IAP inquiry API call optimization during payment transactions, enhanced logging, and listener fixes for exception handling. See our release notes for details on integrating the latest SDK version. Samsung Wallet Adds Weather Forecasts to Event Tickets and Boarding Passes Samsung Wallet now brings weather forecasts to your event tickets and boarding passes. Now you can check the weather for your event's location and time right on the ticket, alongside the details you're already viewing. Developed in collaboration with The Weather Channel, the feature shows temperature, current conditions, and severe weather alerts, surfacing the relevant forecast as your event time approaches. The weather forecast feature is rolling out to major markets worldwide, with severe weather alerts available in the United States, Canada, Japan, Europe, Australia, and South Korea. Looking ahead, Samsung Wallet plans to expand with features such as hotel and restaurant reservations—bringing your plans together so you can manage them all in one place. Learn more * Weather information is based on the location details listed on your ticket. Forecasts are provided for reference and may differ from actual weather conditions. Samsung Supports the Next Wave of Healthcare Innovation at 2026 Out of Pocket Hardware Hackathon Samsung is proud to have sponsored the 2026 Out of Pocket Hardware Hackathon, uniting healthcare service developers, engineers, and innovators to shape the future of digital health. Over the intense Hackathon weekend, the participating teams explored cutting-edge use cases of wearable devices including AI-powered health coaching, remote patient monitoring, and intelligent health assistants, all powered by wearable technology and real-world health data. Find out more about the event and Samsung's role in the developer ecosystem on the blog. Learn more Create Push Notification Templates Using the Samsung Wallet Server API  Samsung Wallet has a feature that enables partners to send personalized push notifications to their users. To do so, J7first have to create a notification template, which then needs to be approved by Samsung. Individual notification templates can be created in the Wallet Partners Portal, but creating multiple card notifications templates at once can be accomplished more conveniently by using the Adding Notification Template API.  This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide on how to create notification templates from a partner server using the Adding Notification Template API. From loading certificates and generating authentication tokens to encrypting payloads with Samsung’s public key (JWE), signing with a partner’s private key (JWS), and executing POST requests, all the implementation details and code samples can be found on our blog. Learn more Samsung Introduces Next-Gen Health Features for Galaxy Watch Samsung strengthens its digital health market strategy with a major update to the Samsung Health application, centered around five key wellness areas: Sleep, Activity, Nutrition, Mindfulness and Vitals, alongside the introduction of new Galaxy Watch health features. The new Vitals, Heart Health Score, Daily Cardio Load, Fitness Index, and Hearing Health features analyze health data measured by Galaxy Watch using AI-powered insights to help users better recognize subtle changes in their health that are easy to miss, and nurture healthier daily habits. The new features will be available on the new Galaxy Watch model planned to be released later this year and will also be gradually updated to prior models, including Galaxy Watch 8.  Find out more about Samsung Health's personalized healthcare. Learn more Samsung and Google Unveiled the First Eyewear Powered by AI at Google I/O 2026 Samsung Electronics and Google unveiled two Android XR-based AI-powered eyewear styles at Google I/O 2026 on May 19. This is the first result of the partnership announced last December between Samsung and two global eyewear brands, Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. The two new premium styles are a disruptive and creative style from Gentle Monster and a classic, timeless style from Warby Parker. They are designed to work as a companion device to assist Galaxy AI's key features, allowing users to experience the power of advanced AI without ever having to pull out their smartphones.  The eyewear has a built-in speaker, camera, and microphone to understand user context in real time and is capable of offering a wide range of features including Gemini navigation assistance, real-time voice/text translation, message summarization, scheduling with voice, even taking photos. Combining the best of Samsung's precision hardware technology, Google’s personalized AI services, and the premium eyewear partners' design, the first collections of intelligent eyewear are scheduled to launch later this year. Learn more 6G ISAC: Expanding the Value of Mobile Networks Beyond Connectivity Mobile networks have traditionally been designed to connect people, devices, and services. Each network generation has seen improved data rates, latency, reliability, coverage, and capacity. In the upcoming 6G era, networks are expected to go beyond delivering information, and to understand the physical environment in which communication takes place.  Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is a key technology of the 6G shift. ISAC means that radio signals used for communication can also carry information about the surrounding environment, and it can create a distributed sensing layer without requiring a separate nationwide sensing infrastructure, by reusing the existing communication infrastructure, radio resources, and signal processing capabilities.  While research in the 5G era largely focused on UAV detection, ISAC in 6G expands the scope beyond simple object detection to a broader framework for environmental awareness, including environment/background sensing, vehicle/fixed-UE sensing, and indoor CPE-based sensing. Take a deep dive into ISAC, the core 6G technology that extends network beyond simple connection by sensing its environment, on the Samsung Research blog. Learn more When One Sensor Learns Another: Cross-Modal AI for Wearables Wearable devices are expected to deliver increasingly accurate health monitoring while remaining compact, lightweight, and power efficient. However, combining multiple sensing modalities often introduces challenges involving hardware complexity, battery consumption, and robustness. For example, photoplethysmography (PPG), a key technology for heart rate monitoring, is highly sensitive to motion artifacts, signal degradation, and increased power usage during continuous tracking. accelerometer (ACC) sensors, in contrast, are more robust and energy efficient, but do not directly measure cardiovascular activity. Existing multimodal approaches rely on explicit sensor fusion by combining both sensors simultaneously, and assuming that all sensors remain available and reliable during inference. Based on Samsung Research’s recent work presented at ICASSP 2026, we would like to introduce a lightweight, cross-modal virtual sensing framework for wearable devices. The framework learns latent relationships between synchronized sensor streams during training and operates using only a single sensor during inference, enabling virtual PPG representations to be reconstructed from accelerometer signals. Evaluated on data collected during high-intensity interval training (HIIT) sessions, the new approach significantly improves ACC-only heart rate estimation and achieves performance close to full multimodal fusion systems, even under severe motion conditions. Learn more about this cross-modal virtual sensing technology, which demonstrates the potential of hardware-efficient wearable AI without relying on explicit sensor fusion, on the Samsung Research blog. Learn more

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