[Qt-interest] An alpha version of a Qt for Android SDK (called "Necessitas") seems to be available now

[Constantin Makshin]

I guess widget and font sizes won't be a problem for Qt applications
that were developed for mobile devices (Symbian, Maemo, etc.). Those
applications should need little modifications or even no modifications
at all.

But release of more or less complete Android port of Qt is definitely
a good thing. :)

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de> wrote:
> On 02/20/2011 11:43 PM, Nicholas Shatokhin wrote:
>> Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:24:17 +0200 було написано Nikos Chantziaras
>> <realnc at arcor.de>:
>>
>>> It's Qt ported to Android using Lighthouse, and comes with Qt Creator
>>> and support for debugging. The announcement was made here:
>>>
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/android-qt/t/209edef7c5ceec8a
>>>  [...]
>>
>> I can write programs that will work in android, ubuntu, windows, etc. Am
>> I right? Is it compiling my c++ code into android's java?
>
> It is using Google's Android NDK.  That means it's compiling to native
> ARM code.  Your application is built as a library (MyApp.so).  It then
> generates a small Java loader that loads and runs the native *.so.
>
> I gave it a quick test with one of my apps (78.000 lines of C++ code and
> 28.000 lines of C code).  It ran on Android without any modifications to
> the source code.  Of course it *will* need modifications, since the
> default sizes and fonts I use in my app aren't suitable for small
> screens.  But the fact that it actually works as-is is impressive.