[Development] My Android QhrisTma5 wish list.

[BogDan]

Hi,



>>   - Menus, on android the menu bar is completely different from other 
> platforms
>>  , it is always hidden, and to make it visible the user must press the menu
>>  button. Currently there is no way to do it, because QMenuBar is a widget 
> and
>>  even more is part of your application window.
> 
> Good news here, Qt 5 will soon have a MenuBar/Menu/MenuItem API that platforms 
> can implement to "take over" menu handling. Currently we only have 
> desktop platforms on the implementors list, so adding a mobile platform to the 
> mix would be great to ensure we get a good API.
> 

Great, I'll begin the port ASAP ! Currently only Qt 4.x is done :)

>> 
>>   - QMake build system. Android supports more than one platform bundled into
>>  your application package (currently they are three platforms), android 
> build
>>  system compiles this platforms at once, sadly qmake build system 
> doesn't
>>  support this feature. QMake is ok for most of the platforms out there but 
> for
>>  Android it needs more love. Somebody blogged about a new  build system [1],
>>  and I must confess that I was very impressed by the approach, but sadly, 
> two
>>  years latter, nothing happened ... This is a very important feature for 
> this
>>  port, without it we can never say we have a *complete* port for Android.
> 
> I've seen this problem before, for Qt 4 we did some configure script work to 
> allow compiling for 32/64-bit ppc/x86 on Mac OS X (with the help of apple-gcc, 
> which can produce binaries for several targets simultaneously.)
> 
  I don't really know how apple-gcc works, but for android I think is a little bit 
different because gcc it can't produce binaries for several targets simultaneously.

>
> For Qt 5 I'm thinking that a better option is to set up multiple Qt builds 
> and then create a deployment utility that can create the final package. Have you 
> considered implementing something like this?
> 

Yes, we already ship different Qt builds for this platforms, we still need to 
create the deployment utility, but to be honest is not my favorite :) 
Maybe it will be easy to create a new plugin for qtcreator and to use 
androids build system :)

> Morten
> 

Cheers,
BogDan.