[Qt-qml] QML on Windows CE / Windows Mobile

[Romain Pokrzywka]

Qt Quick runs fine on Windows CE5 and Windows Mobile 6.x derivatives as well.

The only thing missing is the QtCreator integration and automatic deployment. However there is a pretty good integration 
through Visual Studio instead so it's an acceptable alternative imho.

If you're interested, you can have a look at the Kontact Touch project that our company KDAB worked on, as an example of 
a "real-life" QML project on Windows Mobile :

http://userbase.kde.org/Kontact_Touch
http://userbase.kde.org/Kontact_Touch/WinCE

This is basically a full-blown e-mail and PIM client written in QML on top of Qt and the KDE libraries. It is running on 
Windows Mobile 6.5 as well as Maemo and Meego.

Here's a video of it in action on a Meego tablet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsWnfny61oI

I've also attached some pictures of it running on an HTC TouchPro2 (Windows Mobile 6.5). As you can guess performance 
isn't as good as on the tablet in the video above, but it's still completely usable for real email accounts.

Finally, I should mention that we did hit some severe issues and platform limitations with Qt on WinCE during the 
project, so we had to apply multiple patches to Qt to get things to work at times. Those were mainly related to memory 
management and event handling with multiple threads. But for basic, single-threaded applications you should be fine.

Hope that helps!

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Romain Pokrzywka | romain.pokrzywka at kdab.com | Certified Qt Software Engineer & Trainer
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company
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On Monday 31 January 2011 01:15:44 bo.elmgreen at nokia.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have searched the documentation, but I haven't been able to find out
> whether it is possible to deploy apps to Windows CE / Windows Mobile that
> uses QML/declarative views?
>
> Thanks,
> Bo



-- 
Romain Pokrzywka | romain.pokrzywka at kdab.com | Certified Qt Software Engineer & Trainer
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company
Tel. Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090, USA +1-866-777-KDAB(5322)
KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-independent software solutions
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