[Qt-creator] Qt Creator and Android

[Harri Pasanen]

Ok, I created two items in JIRA for the below.

Harri

On 23/01/2014 09:18, BogDan wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm toying with Qt Creater 3.0.1pre + Qt 5.2.0 Android on Kubuntu 13.10
>> amd64,
>> testing with Android x86 emulator.  My development PC is a rather good
>> desktop PC with 4 core i7 cpu and 16Gb of memory.
>>
>> Some observations:
>>
>> At first I thought that qDebug() was not working, but then I noticed
>> that the output was lost between the chatter from dalvikvm.  The Qt
>> output seems prefixed with D/Qt and is also high-lighted in red, but if
>> there is just a line or two that scroll by fast, it is easy to miss.
>>
>> It is possible to filter the application output in Qt Creator?  Like
>> display only lines matching a regex, or even just having a given prefix?
>>   
> AFAIK no, but we are accepting suggestions :). Please use https://bugreports.qt-project.org .
>
>> Starting up an application in the emulator or a Nexus 7 seems to take a
>> while, around 15-20 seconds for a minimal app.   So if possible, having
>> a desktop target is advisable, as there the startup times are sub-second.
>>   
> Try to use *Ministro* or *Deploy local Qt libs* instead of *bundle Qt libs*, it should be much faster.
>
>> Many of the example apps, even those tagged with android do not work
>> very well yet. Perhaps some QA there might be in order.
>>   
>> Adding the application icons via the Run settings/Deploy
>> configurations/Create AndroidManifest.xml does not seem to work in this
>> snapshot.  Has this been fixed?   It was also not obvious to me how do I
>> edit the created AndroidManifest.xml.   When creating it again, it does
>> propose to overwrite the existing one, but no option to edit the old one
>> is there.   Only later I noticed that the manifest file had popped up in
>> the Edit tab Project tree under Other files/android where it can be edited.
>>   
> I think you just found a bug :). I think it happens because QtCreator 3.0 doesn't create anymore the full android folder layout and it can't copy the icon, please report it to https://bugreports.qt-project.org , we must fix if before 3.1.
>
>> Anyway, despite these minor niggles, it looks very promising!   So I'll
>> continue playing with it.
>>
>> What is the best forum/mailing list to discuss Qt 5.x on Android?
>>   
> Here !
>
> Cheers,
> BogDan.