Comments on: The mobile market and Qt http://cutehacks.com/2010/08/23/the-mobile-market-and-qt-featured-on-slideshare-net/ Crossplatform mobile software Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:38:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: espen http://cutehacks.com/2010/08/23/the-mobile-market-and-qt-featured-on-slideshare-net/#comment-191 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:50:14 +0000 http://cutehacks.com/?p=157#comment-191 Sadly I believe if these solutions becomes widespread in use on the iPhone, Mr. Jobs is going to cut them down with glorious vengeance. Qt also has a community port project for the iPhone, but I left it out of the overview since the possibility of ever getting such and app on the App Store seems slim. Android on the other side seems a lot more open, so there you have a point – thanks for the update.

However, whats the story with Windows Phone 7? Microsoft seem to be locking out everything not .NET/Silverlight? Any comments on this? That would mean the existing Windows Mobile port of Qt won’t work anymore on Windows Phone 7.

]]> By: Miguel de Icaza http://cutehacks.com/2010/08/23/the-mobile-market-and-qt-featured-on-slideshare-net/#comment-184 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:35:25 +0000 http://cutehacks.com/?p=157#comment-184 In your slides you are missing that .NET will run also on iPhone and we are now on a private beta to support Android as well.

See:

http://monotouch.net

And:

http://monodroid.net

]]> By: Top Posts — WordPress.com http://cutehacks.com/2010/08/23/the-mobile-market-and-qt-featured-on-slideshare-net/#comment-169 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:16:14 +0000 http://cutehacks.com/?p=157#comment-169 [...] The mobile market and Qt Last week  I sat down and wrote an article where I compared the different mobile platforms we have today, and also [...] [...]

]]> By: espen http://cutehacks.com/2010/08/23/the-mobile-market-and-qt-featured-on-slideshare-net/#comment-138 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:50:38 +0000 http://cutehacks.com/?p=157#comment-138 Qt is designed from the ground up to be cross-platform, unlike several of the other solutions, which means it’s easier to port than most other frameworks. In addition to that, it compiles to native binaries – which gives you a significant speed increase. What is “better” than the others typically depends on what problem you’re truing to solve.

However, I think you misunderstand me. I’m not saying that Qt is the only solution here, and that the other development paths should be abandoned. I am saying that at the moment there is no cross-platform solution for making mobile apps. Period. Then I’m saying: Porting Qt to Android makes a lot of sense. It makes Qt more relevant, and it makes it possible to make non-trivial apps that work on least Android and the Nokia platforms: Symbian and MeeGo – And if you’ve read my article, you’ll see that covers a huge market.

]]> By: Lennie http://cutehacks.com/2010/08/23/the-mobile-market-and-qt-featured-on-slideshare-net/#comment-136 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:39:14 +0000 http://cutehacks.com/?p=157#comment-136 Why Qt? There are better tools like Java, C#, Delphi etc. Or even PhoneGap (HTML/CSS/Javascript). What will Qt bring to Android?

]]> By: espen http://cutehacks.com/2010/08/23/the-mobile-market-and-qt-featured-on-slideshare-net/#comment-128 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:29:56 +0000 http://cutehacks.com/?p=157#comment-128 Agreed. It is dead easy for me to make a Symbian and MeeGo app from just my laptop. Fire up Qt Creator, select which device I want it deployed to and press “Run”. Also the Qt Simulator makes things really easy.

]]> By: Alessandro http://cutehacks.com/2010/08/23/the-mobile-market-and-qt-featured-on-slideshare-net/#comment-127 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:17:28 +0000 http://cutehacks.com/?p=157#comment-127 @Gubatron: Your review from a developer perspective does not mention the Nokia Qt SDK http://www.forum.nokia.com/Develop/Qt/ . Developers who target Qt on Maemo and/or Symbian now enjoy an one-in-all installer that also offers a Maemo development environment on the Mac.

]]> By: Andri Möll http://cutehacks.com/2010/08/23/the-mobile-market-and-qt-featured-on-slideshare-net/#comment-119 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:50:19 +0000 http://cutehacks.com/?p=157#comment-119 QML and the QScript/JavaScript thing are welcoming advancements, but from another point of view it’s yet another somewhat proprietary (or at least custom) approach to structuring interfaces and documents. Something that HTML is also for.

Turning Qt upside down to a full web-ish framework is not what I’m suggesting, but I’m not sure that the QML way is the best middle ground either.

]]> By: Gubatron http://cutehacks.com/2010/08/23/the-mobile-market-and-qt-featured-on-slideshare-net/#comment-110 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:12:47 +0000 http://cutehacks.com/?p=157#comment-110 Here’s my review on the Nokia N900, I had hopes for Nokia and Qt until I tried doing something on that platform and then trying to get apps from the OVI store, it was like a bad joke.

http://www.gubatron.com/blog/2010/07/07/reviewing-the-nokia-n900-user-and-developer-opinions/

Android will dominate, it’s very easy to see this, not sure why nokia is on such a suicide mission.

]]> By: espen http://cutehacks.com/2010/08/23/the-mobile-market-and-qt-featured-on-slideshare-net/#comment-109 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:09:54 +0000 http://cutehacks.com/?p=157#comment-109 First off, you won’t have to compile for every phone model – it would be for every platform, but I see your point.

Qt is already working on such a layer that it binary independent – it’s QML. It is fully possible to write apps with QML + JavaScript that would still take advantage of Qt’s native speed and features. When 4.7 starts shipping on Symbian and MeeGo phones it will be interesting to see what happens around this area.

Regardless, in order to provide a binary independent layer on top of Qt, you still need that native Qt libraries working for the platform you want these to run on :)

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