[Qt-interest] Qt for the iPad?

[Jason H]

I seriously do not that Qt on Android can be achieved, because of the Java VM/No-native-apps thing. This leaves iPhone. And Qt would work well as a general library dependency. Qt already has multi-touch and all that.

There is this: http://www.qt-iphone.com/

But how much love does it need to get to a prooduction-ready level?






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From: Efan... <efanharris at gmail.com>
To: Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com>
Cc: David Ching <dc at remove-this.dcsoft.com>; qt-interest at trolltech.com
Sent: Mon, April 5, 2010 5:28:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Qt for the iPad?

Undoubtedly S60/40 has largest share, but if we consider Qt punch line "Qt Every where" then apart from Nokia mobile platform there are two major platform iphone and Android is coming up to the world and Personally think that after few years from now These three platform will rule the mobile world.

I know Qt has capability to work on all these platform (with little or little more tweak). Why not port Qt for these platform This will for sure justify "Qt Every where" 
 


On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com> wrote:

>Well first some statistics are in order.
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>>Nokia owns 51% of the market (http://stats.getjar.com/statistics/) far above th enext competitor (13%)
>>I could see why they are hesitant to support Android or iPhone, they numerically speaking don't look relevant. But Qt only works on S60 devices or better.S40 is the most popular device...
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>>Having Qt support itself (Nokia) plus one other platform (Android, iPhone) would be sufficient to get apps made in Qt and deployed on both. Given th inertia and licenses, it seems that iPhone would be the way to go. Android you'd have to go through Java load the native library, and it would end up looking nothing like a Qt app. Maybe Jambi could help, but I have no idea. I think the iPhone port would be the easiest to accomplish.With this unholy alliance, I could see the third (Android) taking a hit as developers signed on. But you'd also be enabling your best/worst competitor.
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>>The problem is the US market is nothing like the world market. But the US market will buy the most/higher priced apps.
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>>----- Original Message ----
>>From: David Ching <dc at remove-this.dcsoft.com>
>>To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
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>Sent: Mon, April 5, 2010 4:50:27 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Qt for the iPad?
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>"Thiago Macieira" <thiago at kde.org> wrote in message
>>news:201004052140.10632.thiago at kde.org...
>>> Can you show
>>> me the business case that would explain why any company (not just Nokia)
>>> should invest in porting Qt to that particular platform?
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>>The same reason why you ported Qt from Linux to Windows desktop.  There are
>>many more programmers and applications on Windows than on Linux.  If these
>>Windows-targeted apps are written in Qt, it would increase market share of
>>apps on the platforms that Nokia most cares about (e.g. Linux).
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>>Same is true of iPod.  There are many more programmers and applications on
>>iPod/iPad than on Mameo.  Wouldn't Nokia love it if all the ones written in
>>Qt just happened to work on Mameo also?
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>>-- David
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