[Qt-interest] Qt for the iPad?

[Marco Borm]

The rendering on Android shouldn't a big problem anymore: The NDK 
supports OpenGL and Qt can use OpenGL as rendering engine. However I 
don't know if this means all Qt apps have to run full screen on Android.
http://gitorious.org/~taipan/qt/android-lighthouse

In either case the port seams much more possible that Qt for Windows 
Phone 7.


If you want to use the linked Qt fork in a commercial program you have a 
also a problem:

"Will there be a license issue with Apple approval process? [...] From 
what I understand with the approval process you must link statically to 
the QT library in static mode. There should be no other issues with 
Apple beyond that."
I think there is no way to commercial license a private fork, so there 
is probably a LGPL "problem".


Jason H wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:scorp1us at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     Well first some statistics are in order.
>
>     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...
>
>     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.
>
>     The problem is the US market is nothing like the world market. But
>     the US market will buy the most/higher priced apps.
>
>
>
>
>
>     ----- Original Message ----
>     From: David Ching <dc at remove-this.dcsoft.com
>     <mailto:dc at remove-this.dcsoft.com>>
>     To: qt-interest at trolltech.com <mailto:qt-interest at trolltech.com>
>     Sent: Mon, April 5, 2010 4:50:27 PM
>     Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Qt for the iPad?
>
>     "Thiago Macieira" <thiago at kde.org <mailto: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?
>
>     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).
>
>     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?
>
>     -- David
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