NewsFlow, Qt Quick QML Google Reader client, on Nokia N8 (For S^3, Maemo and MeeGo)
Creator of TwimGo, Tommi Laukkanen, has been really impressed with the latest Qt SDK 1.1 Technical Preview. With Qt SDK 1.1 he’s been working on a pretty slick looking version of TwimGo (I can’t wait for it!).
Now with the recent release of the push enabled Nokia Reader, Tommi’s been inspired to make his own simple Google Reader with Qt Quick, QML. It’s very clean, with some welcome transitions for forward/back stories as well as for selecting a story, supports kinetic scrolling, images and there’s a slide up menu that appears when pressing an arrow.
Application uses pure QML and JavaScript to access Google Reader API and displaying items. No custom C++ was written for the app. Application runs nicely on my Nokia N8 and N900. See how it runs on N8:
Tommi says this runs on Symbian^3, Maemo and upcoming MeeGo devices.
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Very nice transitions indeed! Great simple app too!
Nokia should employ him to lead their app team for QT
All apps should be ported to QT
That app looks wonderful. The UI is terrific. Cant wait.
Nokia, watch and learn
qt rulez! full os in Qt rocks! nice app!
Yeah I love this app.
nice qt transitions! to bad the portrait-landscape transition ruined it.
Fortunately you can lock your application in one orientation, and then use the sensors to rotate your application yourself (ie instead of letting Symbian “push” you).
There is a qmlviewer example for this.
Bonus:
– All 4 orientations possible
– Much faster to react than default
– Any animation/effect possible
I can see a bright future ahead for symbian/meego.
I would really want to agree but I things are not so good in the symbian front.
It feels that it takes ages for the symbian engineers to implement new features and a good UI. For example the much talked about querty keyboard or the annoying full screen edit text input.Look at the browser,its as fast it was in 2009.
I know Qt is promising a lot but it should have been here from dec 2010 a the earliest =, not summer 2011 (if it comes).
Look at all these connection pop-ups or that you have to change 2 home screes to see what time is it…
All these when iphone is ultra fast and its marketting team presents it as an alien phone and android getting better and better every 2-3 months, adding flash support, wifi-spot..
So what are we left with, a nice camera phone and begging for firmware updates that come to fix bugs and create other bugs…
forgot to mention the ARM11 processor when an A8 would keep the nerd community rest assured for capabilities like flash 10.1.
or the 5y old non removable battery
He said on twitter that it took him around 4-6 hours to create this application. Quite an achievement. Qt is amazing. Power to Qt
I have a Twitter search example which uses Mobility to rotate the screen 360, with help of xSacha
Tell me what you think
http://www.2shared.com/file/cGV5Dmnh/twitter.html
Could you make a youtube video of it?
He is the man. Symbian OS has a future. No need to jump off the Burning Platform suggested by E…
Nevermind , i got it lol… just my gmail account. Silly!!