Comments on: Qt, Applications, OS's and you

By: stoli89

stoli89 — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:59:54 +0000

I recall Nokia has at three approved sources for its AMOLED’s, not just SAMSUNG.

By: Shmerl

Shmerl — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:41:09 +0000

Don : At the Qt developer days, the person (most?) responsible for the Android port of Qt said it’s almost to the point where he’ll make a merge request to Nokia, and then he’ll continue adding an Android imlpementation of the Qt Mobility API’s (Disclaimer, I wasn’t there but got this from a friend who was)

Great news! I hope Nokia will go along with it without problems.

By: Cocco Bill

Cocco Bill — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:52:21 +0000

I hope not. LCDs are horrible after AMOLED experience. I really dislike that blacks are not black on LCDs.

By: Don

Don — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:36:42 +0000

At the Qt developer days, the person (most?) responsible for the Android port of Qt said it’s almost to the point where he’ll make a merge request to Nokia, and then he’ll continue adding an Android imlpementation of the Qt Mobility API’s

(Disclaimer, I wasn’t there but got this from a friend who was)

By: chfyfx

chfyfx — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:03:54 +0000

Here is my concern.

N8 is using amoled and it is experiencing a shortage due to Saumsung’s limited production power.

Once the S^3 upgradable news comes out, more people are going to buy N8, which makes the sortage worse..

Can Nokia ditch the amoled and use an LCD with higher res..?

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:36:06 +0000

maybe in a future. for the moment OS development is very fast , every 6 month a new version appear so porting qt to the last is not an easy job. in a few years when the OS become more mature and new versions will appear once per year who knows.

By: alex68

alex68 — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:15:34 +0000

As far as I know QT is also open sourced now, and the support for iOS and Android was done by community, I recall.

By: Shmerl

Shmerl — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:08:47 +0000

What I was asking is, whether Nokia is interested in supporting such ports, or they’ll be purely community projects. Android and iOS are competing systems, so on one hand Nokia is not too eager to do something in that direction, on the other hand making Qt more cross platform increases Qt value for developers.

Current state of mobile development is horribly fragmented, and Qt could really save the day if it would be available on all major OSes.

By: alex68

alex68 — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:26:04 +0000

for iphone users, they have to jailbreak to get qt apps.

The more sense of QT iOS support is to encourage the port of apps or games on ios to Symbian and Meego.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:17:45 +0000

there are some projects like http://www.qt-iphone.com/Introduction.html
and http://code.google.com/p/android-lighthouse/

From what I know for iphone will not accept you if it’s not build in their own api, so the only choice is android. or you can build iphone app only for you and freinds but not go to app store