Qt and ios : commercial ?
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Hi,
I have saw the slide of dev days at San Francisco : http://www.slideshare.net/Qt4iOS/qt-developer-days-2011-qt-on-ios
What does mean commercial Qt ios ? we need to buy a commercial version at digia or Ian dean will resell an ios package for Qt ?
When will it be available ? I hopes soon :) I am now an user of necessitas : and it's working fine for me :) -
I have one application develop for windows/Mac (qml apps) that is ported to android using necessitas without big changes ! this apps is a pro apps and in use now ... I haven't put the application on android market, but I send to my customer the apk .. It's not a mass market application. ..
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[quote author="qtnext" date="1322931819"]
What does mean commercial Qt ios ? we need to buy a commercial version at digia or Ian dean will resell an ios package for Qt ?
When will it be available ?
[/quote]The commercial Qt iOS plugin does not require a commercial Qt license (in fact, Digia is forbidden from selling commercial licenses for mobile platforms). The plugin is a complex piece of software requiring many man hours of development work. This work has been sponsored by various commercial entities, and they are currently the only parties able to use the plugin for application development. One of these sponsors has gone as far as submitting their (Qt Widget) app to Apple for distribution through their App Store - which happily was accepted on the first attempt!
Of course "Qt Everywhere" is the goal of this type of work and so the intention is to bring the plugin to a wider audience. To this end, there will be an evaluation version of a Qt (4.8.0) SDK for iOS (which will include Qt, Qt Mobility and Qt3D) available in the near future. This version will be able to be used for application development/testing, but will need to be licensed in order to submit applications to the Apple App Store (as it will be watermarked). The idea behind this is that there are many developers who merely wish to "tinker" with Qt on iOS, and far less who are likely to actually submit applications for distribution. For those that do wish to license the plugin, every effort will be made to reach a mutually beneficial arrangement.
Please note that there is an Open Source plugin (by a Nokia developer) that is part of Qt 4.8.0 for those who do not wish to use Qt commercially on iOS.
Thank you for your interest.
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Hi,
thanks for share this...
1)- Do you have an approximate date and price for the SDK ?
2)- what is the relation between you works and http://qt.gitorious.org/~ianfromafrica/qt/qt-ios-plaszma
(I was thinking it was the same ... ?)
3)- is resell SDK the only option (I am a commercial company .. .I understand the value of the ios SDK ... it's unvaluable to port my qt software to ios without redo all in objective c).. but to avoid fragmentation, is there not another option : the blender option : open the source to LGPL when you have the donation of x $ ... It will allow people to contribute in the long time to ios qt plugins ... allow individual people who can pay for a sdk to distribute commercial apps to app store... Just my two cents ..
Anyway big thanks for this work and I hopes that we will try your sdk soon :) -
Infact I think there are lots of people who would want to seriously use Qt for developing iPhone applications for the appstore. The advantage is obviously to target multiple platforms with a single codebase. Imagine the current effort needed if we need to release the app on all major platforms like iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, Maemo. Thanks for the effort and I would like to get further details like that asked by qtnext.
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[quote author="Jayakrishnan.M" date="1324633658"]Is the Qt app on the Apple appstore a commercial app or was it submitted just for testing if it will be accepted ?[/quote]
It's a commercial app by one of the sponsors. It's a ported Qt Widget app (ie. no QML) that has not had a lot of tablet customisations done to it. So, we expected that it may be rejected initially on style grounds. However, it made it through on the 1st attempt, so although it's not a good example of what is possible with Qt on an iPad, it does suggest that getting Qt apps through the submission process won't be an issue... :)
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[quote author="Jayakrishnan.M" date="1325250554"][quote author="Qt4iOS" date="1324238576"]1) The evaluation SDK will most likely be available before the end of the year. [/quote]
Any news regarding the release of the evaluation SDK ?[/quote]
Not yet, but soon... ;)
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[quote author="Qt4iOS" date="1325673128"]
[quote author="Jayakrishnan.M" date="1325250554"][quote author="Qt4iOS" date="1324238576"]1) The evaluation SDK will most likely be available before the end of the year. [/quote]Any news regarding the release of the evaluation SDK ?[/quote]
Not yet, but soon... ;)[/quote]
Can we expect this in the first quarter 2012 ?