Qt Quick on mobile devices
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Are there plans to allow mobile apps written with Qt Quick to be run on devices other than Maemo/Symbian? I expect that there will be Android support at some point in the future, but the question is will it be a third party effort or something developed and supported by Nokia/Qt? Given the new TOS for the iPhone OS, I guess there's not much of a chance we'll ever be able to use Qt Quick to write iPhone or iPad apps.
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Qt for iPhone project: http://www.qt-iphone.com/Introduction.html
Qt for Android/lighthouse project: http://code.google.com/p/android-lighthouse/Afaik, if you can run Qt on a device, you can run Qt Quick applications there also. I guess the real question is that what platforms Qt will support officially and how optimized certain backend implementations are for that platform.
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I would want to try technology 4.7 with QML on the Symbian device, but a problem that I have no compiler for build Qt libraries for Symbian (Building Qt libraries requires RVCT 2.2). One year ago daily builds of Qt for Symbian/S60 have been made for version 4.6. Is it possible to repeat daily builds for version 4.7? ("labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/09/24/":http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/09/24/daily-binaries-of-qt-for-symbians60-available/)
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The GCCE compiler that comes with S60/Symbian SDKs can't be used to compile the Qt libraries due to a bug, however there is a later version that works just fine - one of the trolls has used it successfully on Linux and posted about it here:
"http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2010/04/21/symbian-development-using-linux/(http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2010/04/21/symbian-development-using-linux/)":http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2010/04/21/symbian-development-using-linux/
It's also possible to use the compiler on Windows and Mac:
"http://blog.symbian.org/2010/04/21/stepping-toward-symbian-open-source-tools-on-linux-and-mac/(http://blog.symbian.org/2010/04/21/stepping-toward-symbian-open-source-tools-on-linux-and-mac/)":http://blog.symbian.org/2010/04/21/stepping-toward-symbian-open-source-tools-on-linux-and-mac/ -
As zchydem said before there are third party projects for Android an IphoneOS, but even if Nokia will take part in these developments I don't think that Apple will allow use such applications in AppStore. Google maybe, but really not sure (because for now qt-android uses custom NDK due to some disabled C++ things in standard NDK).
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[quote author="zchydem" date="1274468501"]Qt for iPhone project: http://www.qt-iphone.com/Introduction.html[/quote]
This looks very promising thanks for the link. -
[quote author="Alexander Kuchumov" date="1274497653"]I would want to try technology 4.7 with QML on the Symbian device, but a problem that I have no compiler for build Qt libraries for Symbian (Building Qt libraries requires RVCT 2.2). One year ago daily builds of Qt for Symbian/S60 have been made for version 4.6. Is it possible to repeat daily builds for version 4.7? ("labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/09/24/":http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/09/24/daily-binaries-of-qt-for-symbians60-available/) [/quote]
Thats right can some one provide daily binaries build for version 4.7
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[quote author="Alexander Kuchumov" date="1274497653"]
I would want to try technology 4.7 with QML on the Symbian device, but a problem that I have no compiler for build Qt libraries for Symbian (Building Qt libraries requires RVCT 2.2). One year ago daily builds of Qt for Symbian/S60 have been made for version 4.6. Is it possible to repeat daily builds for version 4.7? (http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/09/24/daily-binaries-of-qt-for-symbians60-available/)
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Agreed. It's quite hard to build Qt WebKit when you can't afford the RCVT 2.2 (that is not even available anymore). -
In the last Nokia Qt SDK there's beta functionality for "building Symbian packages in the cloud":http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/lucian-tomutas-forum-nokia-blog/2009/11/08/build-without-an-sdk-test-without-a-device - supported for Linux & Windows.
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[quote author="Henrik Hartz" date="1278757425"]In the last Nokia Qt SDK there's beta functionality for "building Symbian packages in the cloud":http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/lucian-tomutas-forum-nokia-blog/2009/11/08/build-without-an-sdk-test-without-a-device - supported for Linux & Windows.[/quote]
That is remote compiler and remote device access for application developers. I don't think it will allow you to compile Qt Libraries.
Remote compiler feature is there in the latest Nokia Qt SDK if anyone wants to try it out.
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[quote author="QtK" date="1278758498"][quote author="Henrik Hartz" date="1278757425"]In the last Nokia Qt SDK there's beta functionality for "building Symbian packages in the cloud":http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/lucian-tomutas-forum-nokia-blog/2009/11/08/build-without-an-sdk-test-without-a-device - supported for Linux & Windows.[/quote]
That is remote compiler and remote device access for application developers. I don't think it will allow you to compile Qt Libraries.
Remote compiler feature is there in the latest Nokia Qt SDK if anyone wants to try it out.[/quote]
Very very true.