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

[Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen]

Ah yes, good point - thanks for clarifying entirely :) At any rate - iOS-
lighthouse would be entirely possible, and well... let's see what people come 
up with! :)

On Tuesday 22 Feb 2011 17:35:13 Jason H wrote:
> 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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