[Interest] Qt for Android & iOS

[Jason H]

I don't know how this is implemented, it could be anything from binary translation (VM) or just a cross-compile. But the technicality is that the kernel probably isn't directly cross compiled. Rather it s likely adjusted for the simulator and not full-on iOS. Otherwise, I'd expect to year that people were putting the simulator on x86 tablets...



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 From: Raul Metsma <raul at innovaatik.ee>
To: Qt Interest <interest at qt-project.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt for Android & iOS
 

They have i386 port also for debugging/developing on iPhoneSimulator

Raul


On 25.04.2012, at 14:25, Atlant Schmidt wrote:

Jason:
> 
>> iOS will only ever support ARM…
> 
>  This is pretty orthogonal to the question on the table,
>  but I’ll bet this statement is wrong. iOS will support
>  whichever CPU architecture is seen as giving the
>  best performance per Watt* and right now, that’s
>  ARM. But in the future, it may be something
>  completely different.
> 
>                            Atlant
> 
> 
>* While still providing “good enough” absolute performance.
> 
> 
>From: interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Jason H
>Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 09:44
>To: Lucas.Betschart at crypto.ch; adam.weinrich at nokia.com; interest at qt-project.org
>Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt for Android & iOS
> 
>It's rather simple actually. Platform control.
>iOS was developed for the phone, then monetized to bring in app revenue for Apple.
>Android was the same way, but its initial purpose was to break carrier control and get people using google services on the mobile space so that didn't have a giant hole. Searches from wired computers are on their way out. 
>
>
> 
>iOS will only ever support ARM, but Android's Java VM allows any CPU. It's actually quite clever.
> 
>Meanwhile Meego/Mer/Etc was done with the idea of selling Qt and providing a base to embedded/mobile markets. Sure there's some monetization for the Ovi App and music stores when it comes to the phone, but it's much more a "me too" thing. Qt is leverage to compile anywhere and let the app store sort it out. None of the other companies has such a casual approach. They were targeting specific instruction sets - ARM or Java because they did not have Qt at their disposal.
> 
> 
>I just got an N9 yesterday and I am impressed. There's a few rough corners, but overall I'm more disappointed now that they jumped to WP7. It's fast, and responsive - faster than my dual core Atrix.  If more people had access to it, it would have crushed the prospect of WP7.
> 
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