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

[Jason H]

A small technical distinction - using libraries other than Apple's SDK was 
prohibited for a short time. Then the FTC started investigating and Apple 
"clarified" (really back-tracked) and said libraries were ok, provided that no 
code was downloaded. This kills non-local swfs, and remote QML components, but 
leaves AIR and Qt/QML otherwise intact.





----- Original Message ----
From: Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <admin at leinir.dk>
To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
Cc: Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com>; Constantin Makshin <cmakshin at gmail.com>
Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 11:20:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] An alpha version of a Qt for Android SDK (called 
"Necessitas") seems to be available now

Hehe, who knows? :)

  Just to clarify, it was never actually prohibited by Apple, there was just a 
lack of clarity in their rules... It was always about killing off Flash 
(because Stevie-boy hates it or whatever), and not about stopping real 
libraries and frameworks (others will tell you they've been using Qt on iPhone 
before, just manually doing the porting and not sending the patches back, 
presumably due to code quality trouble). So, well... Here's to hoping that 
iOS-lighthouse will take off soon ;)

On Tuesday 22 Feb 2011 16:10:26 Jason H wrote:
> What's next? Qt for iPhone since it is no longer prohibited by Apple?
> 
> http://www.qt-iphone.com/Introduction.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Constantin Makshin <cmakshin at gmail.com>
> To: Qt Interest <qt-interest at qt.nokia.com>
> Sent: Sun, February 20, 2011 6:58:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] An alpha version of a Qt for Android SDK (called
> "Necessitas") seems to be available now
> 
> I wonder if developers of this port are going to [try to] send their
> Qt and Qt Creator patches upstream to ease port
> development/maintenance and to make others able to use one Creator for
> all platforms (may be somewhat important for Linux users who have to
> choose between several Creators: distribution repository, desktop Qt
> SDK, mobile Nokia Qt SDK and this one for Android).
> 
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Justin Noel <justin at ics.com> wrote:
> > On 02/20/2011 04:43 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
> >>> 
> >>> And it can be found here:
> >>>    http://sourceforge.net/p/necessitas/wiki/Home
> >>> 
> >>> Videos of it in action:
> >>>    http://taipan.blip.tv
> >>> 
> >>> It looks very promising, especially the deployment of the Qt libs; you
> >>> only need to ship a dynamically linked application.  The required Qt
> >>> libs will be downloaded and kept up to date automatically through the
> >>> Android Market for all Qt applications installed on the device.
> >>> 
> >>> AFAICT, the SDK only works on Linux for now.
> >>> _______________________________________________
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> >> 
> >> 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?
> > 
> > Very simple summary: The Android NDK lets you call C/C++ functions via
> > JNI. In this system you build your app as a shared lib (with main
> > function and all). Then this system loads your so and calls main(). You
> > need a java wrapper to load the Qt libs, your app's lib, call main, etc
> > but this wrapper can(is?) generated for you in Creator.
> > 
> > --Justin

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