Qt Quick on mobile devices

kernco

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.

zchydem

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.

alexander

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/)

m_p_wilcox

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/

DenisKormalev

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).

ucomesdag

[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.

kamalakshantv

[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

detronizator

[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/)
[/quote]
Agreed. It's quite hard to build Qt WebKit when you can't afford the RCVT 2.2 (that is not even available anymore).

hhartz

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.

kamalakshantv

[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.

detronizator

[quote author="QtK" date="1278758498"][quote author="Henrik Hartz" date="1278757425"]In the last Nokia Qt SDK there&#39;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 &amp; 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.