[Android-development] Questions and requests

Yves Bailly yves.bailly at sescoi.fr
Mon Jan 28 11:32:35 CET 2013


Greetings all,

I've had a look at http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt5ForAndroid about
the porting of Qt5 on Android, based on Necessitas. Here are a few
questions about this porting.

1) The use of Necessitas relies on the Ministro utility, which downloads
   needed Qt binaries the first time a Qt-based app is started, because
   only dynamic libraries are currently possible when using Necessitas.
   Is there any plan to allow a static build, therefore not needing
   Ministro nor any additionnal download?
   While the rationals for dynamic linking are perfectly valid, some user
   simply don't understand the need to install something else (Ministro)
   and just uninstall the application without even trying. In those cases
   a static build is preferable (from a user point of view), even if it
   comes with a size price.

2) The supported modules for the "first experimental release" are quite
   limited, albeit surely already a huge job. Do you plan to make QtWidgets,
   QtWebKit and others available as well in the future?

Thanks for your answers and a Great Thanks for your hard work :-)

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