[Interest] 5.8 Features?

ekke ekke at ekkes-corner.org
Wed Jun 22 12:17:02 CEST 2016


Am 22.06.16 um 12:12 schrieb Xavier Bigand:
> It is good to know, I made my test with Qt5.6 and Qt Quick Controls
> labs. It seems that there is some improvement since.
> It seems that one of the hardest thing to simulate is the shadow with
> elevation, but on your captures it seems perfect.
Material.elevation property can be set in Qt 5.7
>
> If I can make my personal application with Qt, it would be great,
> because I dislike Android Studio.
I'll do more example apps and provide recipes for Controls not available
out-of-the-box
ekke
>
> 2016-06-22 11:43 GMT+02:00 ekke <ekke at ekkes-corner.org
> <mailto:ekke at ekkes-corner.org>>:
>
>     Am 22.06.16 um 11:31 schrieb 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.
>     take a look at this example app: blog http://bit.ly/qt-drawer-nav-x
>     and at github: https://github.com/ekke/drawer_nav_x
>     Drawer, Bottom Navigation, FAB, Popup, Toast, StackView,
>     SwipeView, Pages, ...
>     some fine-tuning is already in-development (have written
>     bugreports for this)
>     From my POV you can write good looking Android Material Apps
>     the only controls I'm missing are Date- and Time Pickers
>
>
>     I'm still evaluating, but have a good feeling that Qt 5.7 will be
>     great for mobile business apps I'm writing
>
>     ekke
>
>>     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
>>     <mailto: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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