[Development] Greetings from RIM and from Qt on BlackBerry 10

[Leandro Melo de Sales]

Dear Vladimir,
   I'm very glad to read all your words. I'm dedicating much time to use,
test and develop Qt based apps for PlayBook and BB 10. I will be next week
in San Jose for the BlackBerry Jam American and I will participate of the
meeting on monday for members of BlackBerry MVP (Elite Program). Will you
be there too? I have been working with Thomas McGuide from KDAB mainly
using and providing feedbacks in the QtMultimedia module, while recently I
have decided to contribute to the BlackBerry plugin in QtMultimedia and
other modules (note read yet). Maybe we can meet in San Jose and discuss
more about this.
   In addition, although you mentioned that it is not possible to use Qt in
PlayBook, I suppose you said natively, right? because I developed the
UPnPlayer (available the the app world) totally based on Qt / QtQuick and I
just had to include all the necessary Qt libs with the .bar file. Is there
any idea when PlayBook will get all of this library? another more important
question is: when Qt5 will be available for BB 10? I have run my Qt4/Qt5
based apps in both PlayBook and BB 10 successfully, but I have to include
the libs inside the bar file (around 10MB).
   Thanks for your team too and please continue doing the great work.

Br,
Leandro.

--
Leandro Melo de Sales
Professor at Institute of Computing (IC) at Federal University of Alagoas
(UFAL), Brazil
Pervasive and Mobile Computing Laboratory (COMPE / IC)
Member of BlackBerry Academic Program
Member of BlackBerry Elite Program

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2012/9/20 Vladimir Minenko <vminenko at rim.com>

> Hello all,
>
> I now finally took some time to drop this message to all who work on Qt.
> There are a few reasons why not any earlier and why now.
>
> First of all, congratulations to Qt with the new home! I am sure, Digia
> will be a very good home with many exciting possibilities!
>
> Also congratulation with 4.8.3! Even though there was a bump for RIM in
> the way how it was released (other story), Qt 4.8.3 is big news for in
> another sense.
>
> Qt 4.8.3 is going to be the first functional release of Qt on BlackBerry
> 10. We are currently working on a new public beta release of BlackBerry 10
> which is in preparation for BlackBerry Jam Americas next week. Yes, it was
> possible to load Qt apps on Playbook, but Qt was not integrated in the
> Playbook device firmware and apps are not accepted in the AppWorld (for
> now).
>
> This is different with BlackBerry 10. Qt is there and you can use it for
> apps development. I certainly count Qt Quick here too, btw. All this will
> be very beneficial for Qt running in QNX in general, which is the base of
> BlackBerry 10. Quite some people worked very hard to make it happen... This
> is one of the reasons, why it was so silent after our talks on Qt
> Contributor Summit in Berlin this summer. And writing this, I would like to
> mention folks from KDAB. They did a master job for Qt on BlackBerry 10 and
> QNX!
>
> Another interesting fact to mention is that RIM now has a dedicated Qt
> team instead of various folks scattered across the company and taking care
> of Qt on part-time basis. Qt is much too important for BlackBerry 10 and
> needs a real team. It is really "real" now, since from the beginning of
> September we are 5 persons with quite some open positions.
>
> There are still more than many things to do. Hm, as usually... One of the
> most important areas is to get a proper home for Qt on RIM's developer
> pages in addition to our wiki on Qt-Project.org (
> http://qt-project.org/wiki/BlackBerry) and the new group
> http://qt-project.org/groups/qt-blackberry-and-qnx .
>
> Enough stories, back to work!
>
> Have a nice evening/day/morning! :-)
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
> Vladimir Minenko
> Technical Manager, Qt
>
> Research In Motion
> Central Tower, level 15
> Landsberger Str 110
> 80339 Munich
> Germany
>
>
>
>
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