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Nokia Announces Qt 5 Plans

Submitted by Elv13 2011-05-09 Qt 52 Comments

Since Nokia announced its switch to Windows Phone 7, people have been worried about the future of Qt. Well, it turns out Nokia is still going full steam ahead with Qt, since it has just announced the plans for Qt 5. Some major changes are afoot code and functionality-wise, but the biggest change is that Qt 5 will be developed out in the open from day one (unlike Qt 4). There will be no distinction between a Nokia developer or third party developer.

Don’t Write Off Nokia and Qt Yet

Guest post by Amy Bennett 2011-03-16 Qt 21 Comments

When Microsoft and Nokia announced Nokia's move to Windows Phone 7, most people assumed the worst for Nokia's stewardship of the open source Qt, and indeed the company quickly sold its Qt licensing interests to Digia. But it looks like the company still has plans for Qt - and for the Symbian OS. Aaron Seigo, a Qt hacker employed by Nokia, told blogger Brian Proffitt that "Nokia is predicting over 150 million Symbian devices still to come" and "I think they've underestimated the longevity of Symbian".

Nokia Sells Qt Licensing, Services Business to Digia

Submitted by Geoff Floding 2011-03-07 Qt 36 Comments

Since the web has a tendency to overstate things: no, Nokia is not selling Qt. Today, Nokia announced that Digia will acquire the Qt Commercial software licensing and professional services business from Nokia. So I repeat: Nokia is not selling Qt.

Qt Implementation for Android Introduced

Guest post by lemur2 2011-02-22 Qt 96 Comments

A first alpha version of a Qt implementation for the Android mobile operating system has been announced by Romanian software developer Bogdan Vatra. Since Nokia in co-operation with Microsoft have announced that it does not intend to develop a Windows Phone variant of the GUI framework, Qt for Android represents the only remaining route/platfrom to providing mobile phone apps developed using Qt.

Nokia New Strategic Direction: What is the Future for Qt?

Guest post by fran 2011-02-14 Qt 27 Comments

With the news that Nokia is choosing Windows Phone 7 as its main smart phone platform, there has been some doubts concerning its commitment towards Qt and Meego. On the QT blog, Nokia's Director of Qt ecosystem discusses its future. Nokia re-affirms it's committed to Qt, and also says it will be launching a Meego device later this year. Nokia after all is not the only company with an interest in this platform and tablets from other companies like Fujitsu is already starting to emerge.

Qt Is Going Modular

Submitted by diegocg 2010-10-26 Qt 12 Comments

Recently a project called 'Qt Modularization' was initiated. This is a project that aims to modularize Qt at every level. As you may know already, Qt is currently modularized on the DLL level; each module has its own DLL. However, the project as a whole is still monolithic; all the code is hosted in a single repository, you cannot build a leaf module without building the modules on which it depends. This project aims to change that, so that the modules are hosted in different repositories, with separate maintainers, and modules may have different release schedules.

Nokia Focusses Fully on Qt for Both Symbian and MeeGo

Thom Holwerda 2010-10-21 Qt 64 Comments

It's a rather unclear time over at Nokia in Espoo (Finland!), with people coming and going, and changes in development strategy. The latest one is, I think, a good one: Nokia has stated it will commit fully to Qt as the sole application development framework for both Symbian and MeeGo.

Qt 4.7.0 Released

Submitted by diegocg 2010-09-21 Qt 91 Comments

After many months of designing, coding, reviewing, testing and documenting, Qt 4.7.0 is finally ready for the big time. Although it's a little more than nine months since Qt's last feature release (4.6.0 on December 1, 2009), the seeds of some of the new stuff in 4.7 were sown much earlier. Indeed, many of the ideas behind the biggest new feature in Qt 4.7.0, Qt Quick, were born more than two years ago, not long after Qt 4.4 was released

Qt Being Ported to Wayland

Submitted by diegocg 2010-09-20 Qt 14 Comments

Jesse Barnes has posted a screenshot showing two clocks implemented in Qt, drawn natively in Wayland, the next-generation display server.

Nokia’s App Development Strategy: Qt, Qt, Qt

Submitted by poundsmack 2010-08-06 Qt 59 Comments

Been wondering about Nokia's strategy for conquering the rapidly expanding app space? Great! So were we, which is why we joined up with a recent dev event carried out by the Finnish company for an update on how and where things are going. It's a familiar narrative by this point: Qt is all set to become the way that Nokia-friendly apps are made -- whether it be for Symbian smartphones or MeeGo-powered mobile computers, coffee machines or infotainment consoles

Nokia Qt SDK Beta Released

Submitted by vivainio 2010-04-28 Qt 15 Comments

Piggybacking on the N8 launch, Nokia provided the first public release of the Nokia Qt SDK (beta). In essence, this product is the Qt Creator 2.0 (with the usual support for desktop development), enhanced with features necessary for Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo development: easy hardware debugging, as well as a simulator that mocks screen size and various hardware events like location changes.

Qt on Android: the Bogdan Vatra Interview

Submitted by Tam Hanna 2010-03-18 Qt 3 Comments

"Being the developer of a Qt-based mobile solution is really really nice nowadays â€“ especially as Android support is well on its way. For all those of you new to the topic: the moment Qt has been ported, you can run your Qt-based applications on the operating system. Bogdan Vatra the brain behind the Qt port - let's see what he has to say!"

Preview of QML UI Designer

Submitted by vivainio 2010-01-29 Qt 39 Comments

Trolls (the Trolltech ones) are blogging about a technology preview of the UI designer for QML, integrated to Qt Creator. A youtube video is provided. QML, accompanied by an UI designer, provides an open alternative for piecing together flash-like high-FPS programs with heavily customized and animated user interfaces, built on QGraphicsView framework. While QML allows authoring the whole program in QML markup and Javascript, QML can be incorporated to Qt C++ programs with relative ease.

Qt 4.6.0 Released

Submitted by poundsmack 2009-12-01 Qt 40 Comments

Nokia has released the latest version of its cross-platform toolkit Qt, version 4.6. As usual, it comes with a whole slew of improvements and new features, and this time, they even added a new platform into the mix.

Qt4 Ported to Haiku, Developer Preview Release Available

Thom Holwerda 2009-10-27 Qt 113 Comments

The Haiku alpha is barely out the door, and we already have another important news item about the open source reimplementation of the BeOS. About 18 months ago, Evgeny Abdraimov started porting the Qt4 graphical toolkit to Haiku, and now, we ave some seriously epic screenshots showing a multitude of Qt4 applications running in Haiku, as well as a developer preview release.

Qt 4.6 Promises to Deliver Windows 7, Maemo, S60 Support

Submitted by poundsmack 2009-10-15 Qt 12 Comments

"Nokia has announced the availability of the first Qt 4.6 beta release. Version 4.6 represents a significant milestone, the first release since Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech, the company that originally created Qt. The open source C++ application development toolkit has evolved considerably under Nokia's stewardship and has undergone noteworthy technical and licensing changes."

Qt 4.6 Preview Released for N900

Submitted by diegocg 2009-10-09 Qt 1 Comment

Nokia has announced the first technology preview of Qt 4.6 for the N900 (Maemo 5). Highlights include a ntive look & feel via Hildonized style, hardware acceleration with OpenGL ES 2, input method support (hardware keyboard and software keyboard), global menu integration - QMenuBar will be mapped to Maemo’s global menu, online/offline support in libQtNetwork and other cool things.

Introducing QScopedPointer

Submitted by diegocg 2009-08-24 Qt 12 Comments

Qt usually takes the boring memory allocation and deallocation from you, either through its implicitly shared containers, or with QObject's parent child relationship model. But every once in a while, we need to allocate something on the heap, and then the stress starts - where do we delete it, and how do we make sure to not leak the memory? To fix this problem, QScopedPointer was born. It will delete the object it is pointing to automatically when it goes out of scope.

PySide: Python for Qt

Submitted by lemur2 2009-08-19 Qt 11 Comments

"The PySide project provides LGPL-licensed Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework. PySide Qt bindings allow both free open source and proprietary software development and ultimately aim to support all of the platforms as Qt itself." Previously, the PyQt bindings were not licensed LGPL. If one wished to make a commercial application, then one previously had to purchase a commercial license for PyQt. Now it is possible to dynamically link to the LGPL-licensed PySide bindings instead. The PySide bindings are API compatible with PyQt.

Maemo To Switch To Qt

Thom Holwerda 2009-07-06 Qt 34 Comments

As some had already anticipated when Nokia acquired Trolltech, the next version of the Maemo platform will have its application framework based on Qt instead of Gtk+. This news was announced at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. While the switch to Qt may seem a major defeat for the GNOME community, this isn't exactly true, as many of the underlying technologies will still be GNOME-centric.

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