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Nokia Releases Qt SDK For Mobile Development

Posted by timothy on from the utterly-cute dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nokia has released its unified Qt-based SDK for cross-platform development for Symbian and MeeGo (plus Maemo) devices. The blurb reads: 'Today sees the release of the Nokia Qt SDK, a single easy-to-use software development kit (SDK) for Symbian and Meego application development. Developers can now develop, test, and deploy native applications for Nokia smartphones and mobile computers. The beta version of the SDK is available for download from today, ready for developers to kick off development for new devices, including the just-announced Nokia N8.'"

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  1. Sarcasm should be a little less "subtle"... by sznupi · · Score: 2, Informative

    (hey, can it be anything but sarcasm if Symbian has half od smartphone market? Even if it's just a minority of what Nokia sells...)

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  2. Exciting Developments by simula · · Score: 4, Informative

    As a Qt developer and an n900 owner, Nokia's efforts to extend the Qt platform to portable devices is extremely exciting.

    Don't forget that Qt has been an inspiring cross-platform toolkit for years and is the framework behind KDE.

    Along with some great improvements to publish to phone support in Qt-Creator (Qt's LGPL IDE), we are getting expansions to the api which include: bearer management, contacts, location, messaging, multimedia, and sensors, among others.

    For more info:
    http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2010/04/27/nokia-qt-sdk-what-is-in-and-what-is-not-and%E2%80%A6-what-is-it/
    http://qt.nokia.com/products/appdev/add-on-products/catalog/4/new-qt-apis/mobility

    1. Re:Exciting Developments by Nursie · · Score: 2, Informative

      N900 uses Maemo. I think you mean Meego, the Moblin/Maemo meld.

      N900 seems to be at least the test platform for this, so it's highly likely us N900 owners will be able to transition.

      I don't know what you mean by "screwed" either. M5 will continue to be supported and, hell, I'll probably get another phone in a year anyway so I'm looking forward to the next Meego device.

  3. Re:Alternatives to C++ by TejWC · · Score: 3, Informative

    You will probably want PySide since it gives all Qt functions to Python and was written with mobile devices in mind. It is not "done" yet but there is just enough for you to get your hands dirty with.

  4. Re:It started to sound funny by sznupi · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, if "on _all_ Nokia low end to mid end phones" then you're speaking of close to half a billion devices per year...

    Symbian is already close to 100M per year probably - 20% of all Nokia phones being Symbian sounds roughly right; yes, it will gradually grab more and more from S40, but there will be a place for the latter (and for S30) certainly for quite some time.

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  5. Re:Alternatives to C++ by Ecyrd · · Score: 2, Informative

    I do believe there's a go compiler already for the N900 - at least I recall seeing it in the repos.

  6. Re:KDE 4 needed by stilborne · · Score: 4, Informative

    We're already working on it: http://www.notmart.org/index.php/Software/KDE_on_MeeGo

    We had been working previously with both Maemo and Moblin, so this in a way simplifies things a bit for us. It's early days yet, but we're making great progress. The more the merrier, so feel free to join us (you can find us in #plasma on irc.freenode.net)