[Qt-interest] Qt for the iPad?

[Elfen]

I agree it is frustrating with Apple arbitrarily rejecting huge projects
like Qt and Adobe Flash...  Another one I worry about is how Novell spent
all this effort on MonoTouch (for C# on iPhone), and developers who use it,
and who knows if Apple will arbitrarily block all apps compiled with
MonoTouch too.  For anyone who has ever complained about Microsoft (instead
of complaining about Apple)...  There's probably a phrase for someone who
persecutes minor offenses (like Microsoft), and then ignores huge offenses
(like Apple, like Intel).

In any event, I personally am more into Qt for the desktop support (Windows,
Mac, GNOME, KDE).  I hope Qt is able to keep a strong desktop focus, despite
being owned by a mobile company (Nokia).



On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com> wrote:

> That is ingenious!
>
> And you are right, Mobility definitely has that ability. I am wondering how
> QtMobility would interface with the device HW. If everything is made
> accessible via Java, then there would need to be a Qt/Java bridge... This is
> beyond my knowledge at this time. Anyone have an idea how that hardware
> interacts with the java apps?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>
> To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Sent: Mon, April 12, 2010 3:45:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Qt for the iPad?
>
> Em Segunda-feira 12. Abril 2010, às 20.17.38, Jason H escreveu:
> > Maybe focus moves to Android now? If I could straddle two platforms
> (Nokia.
> > Google) it would still be worth it to me.
>
> There is also a community port of Qt to Android and they have already
> managed
> to get applications running. The solution they found was to make the
> application an .so and place it inside the .jar file, alongside a stub
> loader
> that calls out to your C++ code. Quite an ingenious solution, if you ask
> me.
>
> The big advantage of Android is that it's Linux, so most of the code in Qt
> simply works out of the box. And with the Lighthouse project, the UI part
> is
> coming along nicely.
>
> The disadvantage is that it's not like any other Linux. The libc is broken,
> pthread support is lacking, etc.
>
> > However, QtMobility would need
> > to be outfitted with a lot of Android dongles, and I don't think Mobility
> > is ready for that yet...
>
> Mobility has been designed from day 1 to have different backends, depending
> on
> the platform. This would require only writing of such backends for Android.
>
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