[Qt-interest] Qt on Android

[Francisco Gonzalez]

Just two questions:
Why does Google Android do not support Qt?
Why Google Chrome for linux uses gtk instead of Qt (they use webkit also)?

Well I think these questions are for a Google mailing list.

2009/10/27 Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com>

> FWIW, Android 2.0 came out today.
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> http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/10/announcing-android-20-support-in-sdk.html
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Josh <jnfo-c at grauman.com>
> To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Sent: Tue, October 27, 2009 11:29:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Qt on Android
>
> Thanks all for chiming in on this.
>
> In summary I have a couple questions.
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> Given that Android has the NDK, how hard would it be to port Qt to Android?
> From reading their docs I doubt it has framebuffer support and doesn't have
> X, and probably doesn't have all the libraries needed (but it does come with
> libc, libm, libz, and a cross-compiler).
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> Is it likely that anyone would do a port? It sounds like from Thiago's post
> that at least he sees it would be benefitial for Nokia. Whether other people
> in Nokia see it that way I don't know. If Nokia is not opposed to having a
> port out there, is it possible a port will be done at some point? Why aren't
> they pursuing it now, is it because Android doesn't have enough market
> share?
>
> Could someone comment on whether the following post is based upon something
> I don't see. While it is encouraging that the 1.6 NDK opens up more, you
> still need to use the VM for the actual graphics, which seems to me as the
> hard part.?
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> http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4070
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> Anyway, those are my thoughts.
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> Josh
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> > Em Segunda-feira 26 Outubro 2009, às 17:21:02, você escreveu:
> >> Well, that'd be rather short sighted. Given that Nokia makes devices,
> then
> >>  having same same apps across the devices in the industry  doesn't hurt,
> >>  since iPhone has the most apps and the best apps. Anything Nokia and
> >>  Google can do to erode that market share is good for the both of them.
> >>  Supporting Qt on iPhone, Nokia, and Android devices would only ensure
> that
> >>  the user can move to different handsets and expect the same softwares.
> >>  What this also does, is get more developers using Qt because I can
> target
> >>  everything (but RIM, Palm, porting to RIM, Palm not being discussed).
> Now,
> >>  Qt is free so there's no profit there, but what this does is bring
> >>  developers into supporting Nokia phones, if they had not planned to
> >>  already. And I *want* to use Qt so I can address the three biggest
> players
> >>  all at the same time. This also keeps Nokia from falling behind. Given
> >>  that Nokia's market share is falling, they don't want to paint
> themselves
> >>  into a corner.
> >>
> >> Also, as the line between phones, MIDs, tablets etc, blurs, habing able
> to
> >>  have the same app on your phone as a netbook would be a good thing as
> >>  well. But Qt will scale up to the PC too. Learning one tool for all
> phones
> >>  and PCs will ensure its success. Nokia could then use the developers it
> >>  captures and lure them into supporting Nokia as a first-class platform.
> >>  Which would really benefit Nokia phones.
> >
> > You're basically quoting my presentation at Dev Days about Convergence
> (except
> > the part about Android and iPhone ports). I was making the case about
> using Qt
> > to cross any kind of device boundary: from desktop PCs to laptops to MIDs
> and
> > tablets to mobiles. And also about using the web where it makes sense.
> >
> > But I'd like to point out that you forgot one of the three biggest
> players in
> > the list above: Windows Mobile. It's still larger than Android and Qt
> supports
> > it.
> >
> >
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