[Interest] 5.8 Features?

[Xavier Bigand]

I made few tests for a personal project with Qt Quick Controls 2 on Android
and was not convinced. Because for a full GUI application it still too far
from the same GUI made with the Android SDK.
I still think that for small applications that is preferable to develop
them with the platform SDK as they contains all features. But for middle
and biggest applications it can be different especially if desktop
platforms are also target.
There is an other reason why I think that it is preferable to use platform
SDK, it is for commercial application that want to try to be featured by
mobile stores, it would be easier to integrate latest SDK features,...


I am working on big application with a 3D engine that runs on mobile and
desktop, we are using Qt Quick for the GUI, everything else is in standard
C++. For feature specific to the platform (in-app, social,...) we use
platform SDK and it's not that long to do the job 2 or 3 times for those
features.

Qt represent a big time saver for the GUI for us mainly because of the
property binding that allow us to adapt the GUI easily and efficiently to
the screen size, and tweak it per platform, product version,...

And now I am trying to replace our 3D engine by qt3d to improve the user
experience, the compatibility on desktop, the performances and be able to
use different rendering techniques on desktop.




2016-06-22 10:45 GMT+02:00 ekke <ekke at ekkes-corner.org>:

> Am 22.06.16 um 10:36 schrieb Bo Thorsen:
> > Den 21-06-2016 kl. 22:55 skrev Jason H:
> >> I feel like the last few releases have been run by the trolls, and
> >> not the users of Qt. I was hoping open governance would enable the
> >> community to direct Qt development, but I seem to have misinterpreted
> >> what it means. I'm looking for what's going into 5.8.. not much
> >> listed on the releases page.
> >>
> >> I'd like to suggest that mobile get some much needed love.
> >> - Application state transitions; Foreground, background
> >> - Background processing API
> >> - Screen wake lock API
> >> - In-app Notifications: local, remote
> >>
> >> While I have those characterized as "mobile" there are things like
> >> notifications occurring on desktop platforms.
> >>
> >> Any thoughts?
> >
> > There's only one reason why you don't see more features for the mobile
> > parts: There are not enough developers on it. And that's not because
> > QtCompany is doing anything wrong, they just have their priorities
> > different from what you have.
> >
> > Personally I don't care about mobile at all. I haven't had a mobile
> > customer since 2011 and I don't see that changing. My focus is almost
> > entirely on Linux embedded and Windows desktop. Those are the areas
> > where a lot of applications are written.
> >
> > I'd love to see the mobile platforms thrive. But unless you Qt users
> > start becoming Qt developers and contribute to it, I don't see that
> > happening.
> hmmm
> the only reason for me to use Qt is mobile
> using new Qt Quick Controls 2 Qt is a great platform for mobile app
> development and I hope many new developers will start with Qt on mobile
> to make this easier I'm writing example apps and a blog series
> http://j.mp/qt-x
>
> I really hope that there will be development on the topics Jason H
> mentioned above
>
> ekke
>
> >
> > Bo Thorsen,
> > Director, Viking Software.
> >
>
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Xavier
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