[Android-development] Android style in Qt 5.2RC1

[BogDan]

>>  Hi,

>> 
>>     It was my mistake, I updated the article. Long time ago (5.1.x times), 
> Quick Controls used to use the Widgets QStyle plugin for styling. When I wrote 
> the article I could not test it because the declarative module didn't work 
> at all... and I assumed that noting was changed. Sadly, I was wrong! And Quick 
> Controls are not using Widgets QStyle for styling anymore.
> 
> The QtWidgets dependency in Qt Quick Controls was removed on Android by 
> default to minimize the application sizes, but I think it's possible to 
> build it manually with a dependency on QtWidgets. If you do this, I 
> think it should use QStyle for styling the components. Note that I 
> haven't tested this myself and I don't know exactly how to enable 
> widgets dependency in controls again, but I don't think it should be too 
> hard.
> 

Yeah, I see it now, it was removed by 771e2babf6d201f7f6a11c93a59c152896dad8db .

I'll try to enable them on my computer and if they look ok, then I think I'll enable them for Ministro repository.

>
> In the long run, we need something similar to the Android style in pure 
> QML, and also a solution for applications that are not using Ministro.
> 


Be aware that extracting the Android style is a super slooow operation ...

Cheers,
BogDan.