[Qt-interest] Qt as true mobile multi-platform framework.

[Mihail Naydenov]

Just to comment that Silverlight is by no means as mature and full-featured 
platform as Qt is.
The last time I checked it only works in a browser, so its comparable to flex, 
not Qt, not even to AIR.

As for "multi-platform" - this is just a marketing stunt and MS will *never* 
pull this off completely. 

(And considering the platform is not open source, the situation is desperate)

As for Qt on mobile, lets all just hope nokia releases some killer smartphons in 
large numbers.
This is the best scenario - will make nokia money and marketshare, will push Qt 
development, will create jobs for Qt devs.
Chances to use Qt for mobile development in some other scenario is unlikely, not 
for technical reasons, 

but mainly because the lack of dedicated resources to support it.

MihailNaydenov


----- Original Message ----
> From: David Ching <dc at remove-this.dcsoft.com>
> To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Sent: Fri, November 5, 2010 8:14:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Qt as true mobile multi-platform framework.
> 
> With respect, Qt is not as relevant as a "true multi-platform framework" as 
> it was prior to the dominance of iPhone and Android, which together with RIM 
> make up almost all of the mobile market in the US.  Symbian is  non-existent 
> in the US, and Mameo and MeeGo are unknown quantities (are they  even 
> released yet?) that may or may not succeed.  I don't see how you  can ignore 
> (or leave to "unofficial ports" the dominant market share of  iPhone and 
> Android) and seriously call it true multi-platform.
> 
> Which  is too bad considering there is nothing else that is, either.  Best on 
> paper at least is Silverlight, which can target Windows (native), Mac 
> (native), Linux (through Moonlight?), iPhone (through MonoTouch), and 
> Windows Phone 7 (native).  Then we read this week that MS is  repositioning 
> Silverlight and its only true cross platform support will be  through HTML5, 
> meaning we will probably never see Silverlight on  Android.
> 
> Seems like there isn't enough money for anyone to write a true 
> multi-platform framework for all significant desktop and mobile OS's.   :-(
> 
> -- David
> 
> 
> "Constantin Makshin"  wrote in message 
> news:201011041319.22577.cmakshin at gmail.com...
> 
> Qt  already works on most desktop platforms, Symbian (Symbian^3 has Qt 
> available out-of-the-box, Symbian^4 is going to replace numerous old GUI 
> libraries with Qt), [dead] Windows Mobile (AFAIK, native applications are 
> no-no on Windows Phone 7, so it's unlikely that Qt will be available there), 
> Maemo and MeeGo. There are unofficial ports of Qt to Android and  iPhone.
> 
> Looking at that list, I'd say Qt is already [one of] the most  portable 
> toolkit[s]. From my experience of using Qt on mobile platforms I  can say 
> that most difficulties are caused by physical/hardware limitations  of mobile 
> devices (small screens, input methods, etc.) you have to cope with  and not 
> software ones.
> 
> So, I think, Qt can be called "true  multi-platform framework" (the word 
> "mobile" is omitted  intentionally).
> 
> > Paulo 
> 
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