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Both Marius and I were presenting in Munich. Marius dissected the code of several of our apps, and explained how QStateMachine makes your life easier. The talk is available here:
I talked about Necessitas, Qt and Qt for Android and basically explained how you publish Qt apps on the Android market. That talk is available here:
Now we gotta work to catch up on other projects!
So far it’s been a fun, interesting and productive event. It’s a great venue and it’s all been extremely well organized, including working wifi (!) and free drinks. We will stay here until the end of the event on Saturday, so if you’re in Berlin and want to talk to us, give us a ping or look around for the Cutehacks logo.
Posted in Android, Community, Conference, Qt, Qt Quick
The video below shows our apps running on a few of the many platforms supported by Qt.
As you may know, Qt has been a cross-platform toolkit from day one, and supports many more mobile platforms than just Symbian and MeeGo. Here is a list of some of the different mobile platforms Qt runs on today:
| Mobile OS | Support | Links |
|---|---|---|
| Android | Community | Video |
| iOS | Community | Video |
| Windows Mobile | Official | Video |
| webOS | Community | Article |
| QNX (Blackberry Playbook) | Community | Video |
| Symbian | Official | Video |
| Maemo/MeeGo | Official | Video |
…and there have been reports on success getting it running for Bada and Amazon Kindle as well. Go to the Qt booth to see more apps running across both desktop and mobile platforms.
Yesterday I was presenting (covered here by mobizmag.no) at appworks.no, the first conference in Norway focusing on mobile app development. There were two scenes, lots of people, and a lot of good talks. Check out photos from the day here. (Photos: Eirik Helland Urke/Creative Commons)
I was talking about the mobile app market in Scandinavia and Europe, mostly from a business perspective. The most interesting slides are probably the ones about the mobile os web usage in Scandinavia, the size of the different app stores, and also the trends and forecasts on whats going to happen, according to the analysts, concerning app stores and mobile platforms.
I also attended three of the talks, and all of them were really interesting. Here is a small summary of them.
Sveinung Totland – apps.no
Sveinung had a really interesting talk about the different apps that apps.no had launched and how they had fared in the market. He was very frank and open about everything and I really enjoyed the talk. Our business idea is basically same as them, make own apps + consult and make apps for others, so it was really good to hear from someone that was already doing this, and succeeding. Here are the numbers:
| Name | Price | Downloads | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|
| YR | free | 600000 | None – but 60000 emails to spam |
| Kronespillet | 17 NOK | 67000 | 854250 NOK |
| Avinor | 17 NOK | 46000 | 586500 NOK |
| Kystpatruljen | 17 NOK | ? | 0 – Enough to pay for the dev cost. Redningsselskapet gained 50% in new member boost |
| Gyldendals Soppguide | 39 NOK | ? | 0 – Enough to pay for dev cost |
| Skattesøk | 17 NOK | ? | Lost money – Free apps came out and there was no market |
Peter Vesterbacka – rovio.com
Peter from Rovio talked about their insane success with the Angry Birds game. It’s been the top selling game for the iPhone for over 5 months, thats more than anyone else – ever. They have sold, at least, 7 million copies of it on the Apple App Store for the iPhone only, more if you add iPad. They launched in December 2009, and since then have had a crazy ride.
One interesting fact is that Angry Birds is not their first game. According to Peter, they’ve done around 50 other game titles already, so this was not an overnight succuess, but took years of hard work before it really paid of. Angry Birds was “designed to be hit” – with that Peter meant that their designers had sat down and really studied what was needed to make a smash hit game for the iPhone. The character design was a bit by accident, they saw some sketches from one of their artists, and then instantly fell for the angry birds.
Angry Birds is now going to be everywhere: Nintendo DS, Playstation Portable, Windows etc. etc. For their existing ports: iPhone, Maemo, Android and Symbian, they’ve done them all in house – and they will continue with that for the other coming ports. They are 12 people right now, but have 15 open positions! 
Rovio is aiming for 100 million downloads of Angry Birds – they call it the “Tetris strategy”. And they might succeed – when they released the Android version a few days ago, they had 2-3 million downloads in as many days. Wow.
Nikolai Onken – uxebu.com
The last talk I attended was about HTML5 apps. Nikolai had a very enthusiastic talk about HTML5 apps, and how that was not a utopian dream, but actually a reality already. I think his talk clearly showed it is not quite there yet. The fact that for the iPhone, to use bluetooth support in an HTML5 app, you have to jailbrake it and write a platform spesific extension for PhoneGap speaks for itself.
I’ll keep an eye on HTML5 apps though, but at the moment – native is still the best way for anything but the most naive apps.
Posted in Android, Blackberry, Conference, iPhone, MeeGo, Qt, Symbian
We are signed up, flights and hotel rooms ordered and t-shirts are being washed in preparation for the Qt Developer Days in Munich October 11-13.
We will be roaming the conference area, sporting our Cutehacks t-shirts and with our latest apps on our phones. Don’t hesitate to talk to us, if you want to talk about Qt and mobile apps for Symbian or MeeGo – or if you just want to chat.
If you need help convincing your boss you should go, look no further! Don’t forget to register before the early bird prices end on September 29.
Both Espen and I are heading for Tampere, Finland to speak at Akademy 2010. We are both scheduled to speak on Saturday July 3.
Espen will talk about how to get your your Qt based application on the OVI store in the Mobile track, while I will have a joint talk with Till Adam about the Qt Model/View framework in the Community track.
If you want to talk to us, don’t hesitate to track us down!
