[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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