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Digia Releases Qt 5.1 With Preliminary Support For Android and iOS

Posted by timothy on from the file-formats-matter-more-than-os dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Finnish software and services firm Digia, which bought Qt from Nokia back in August, has released version 5.1 of the cross-platform application framework. Among the changes are 'significant improvements' to Qt Quick and preliminary support for Android and iOS. The latter means Qt on Android and iOS are both considered Technology Previews, letting developers start building for the two mobile operating systems and porting apps from other platforms by reusing the same code base. Although most of the Qt functionality and tool integration is already in place to start developing mobile apps, Digia promises complete ports to Android and iOS will come with the release of Qt 5.2 'later this year.'"

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  1. Re:Confused by Microlith · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google released the NDK (Native Development Kit) not long after Android was introduced because they finally clued in that Java simply isn't fast enough on slower processors to do gaming.

  2. One Framework to rule them all... by MichaelSimpson77 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been a QT developer for a number of years. Over the last few years, I've done some Linux embedded. A few months ago, I even built and ran a QT app on the Raspberry Pi. Everything worked except for animation. Nokia messed up by not staying the course. And now they announced they are happy being the challenger. Seriously? You were the world dominater several years ago. One thing not mentioned is the Blackberry port. The framework is well done and it just works.

    1. Re:One Framework to rule them all... by caseih · · Score: 4, Insightful

      In what ways is Qt massively flawed? You claim those of us unaware of them are green, but then you say absolutely nothing to enlighten us.

  3. iOS apps were Objective-C only for two months by tepples · · Score: 4, Informative

    There was a time in April 2010 when Apple changed the App Store Review Guidelines to ban all languages other than Objective-C and C++ as an effort to keep Adobe from offering AIR, its tool to package Flash applications as iPhone apps. When this policy was in effect, MonoTouch would have been banned, and the developers of Unity 3D were even porting the library to allow writing a game in Objective-C. Such a game would share no code with the same game for other platforms, making it yet another DRY violation induced by a platform gatekeeper. Apple reversed this policy two months later after it became clear that this banned the use of Lua for game logic and dropped all language restrictions the following September.

  4. Re:will Apple allow this? by pherthyl · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes. There are already Qt based apps on the app store.