Qt to support Android by 2013

Digia extends its commitment to Qt with plans to acquire full Qt software technology and business From Nokia | Qt Blog

See near the end of the above link, and also my previous post.

wxAndroid, which I blogged about earlier, is a similar effort to bring the wxWidgets cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit to Android.

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Qt 5 released w/ desktop/mobile/embedded/realtime OS support

Digia launches Qt 5 cross-platform application development and UI framework

Sounds like pretty interesting news.

I've tried out Qt in the past, and liked it. It is considered by some to be an example of good object-oriented software design.

Qt's signals and slots mechanism is interesting.

I've blogged about Qt before.

Many popular and widely used software products, including cross-platform ones, are built using Qt.

IIRC, the Skype client app is one of them.

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After Nokia acquired Trolltech, the original makers of Qt, they sold Qt rights to Digia.

At the time I was not sure what would happen to Qt, and stopped following it for a while, but this news makes me hopeful that it will thrive.

There is a lot more in the above Qt 5 announcement that is of interest to software developers. Read it.

Hacker News thread about it is also of interest, including the multiple mentions of the ability to use Qt 5 from Python via PyQt / PySide:

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I had blogged about PySide earlier too, when it was first announced, some years ago. Though I've not checked the latest status yet, IIRC, PySide is like PyQt but free to use even commercially.

This implies that desktop, mobile and embedded apps can potentially be created with Qt (using either C++ or Python), which by now, is somewhat more than just a GUI development toolkit / framework, though it started out as that, years ago.

Incidentally, some may not know that the KDE windowing desktop environment for Linux, is written using Qt.

Digia is a Finnish software company:

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One last point: PerfectTablePlan, a cross-platform product to plan seating at weddings, is a successful software product built using Qt. Andy Brice, who created the product, runs an interesting blog called successfulsoftware.net. I have been reading his blog for some years now, and have found it quite interesting. Many of his posts contain useful information for software product developers.

- Vasudev Ram
www.dancingbison.com
Software consulting and training

Jolla Mobile's Sailfish OS progressing ...

Jolla Details Sailfish OS: Offers Unique Multitasking, New Pulley Menu, More

TheNextWeb article above has details.

Better multitasking seems to be one of the features of Sailfish.

I had blogged about Jolla Mobile earlier, here:

Jolla's $260 million Meego revival plan

It is a mobile OS startup based on Nokia's earlier MeeGo Linux-based OS, which in turn was the successor to the Maemo OS, which ran on the Nokia N900.

Jolla's $260 million Meego revival plan

By Vasudev Ram


GigaOm post about Jolla's Meego revival plans and a $260 million alliance for it.

I had blogged about Jolla some time ago when the news about it first came out.

Jolla Mobile is founded by a team of senior people from Nokia.

Meego was the next version of Maemo, Nokia's Linux-based smartphone operating system, which they seem to have dropped work on a bit before their tie-up with Microsoft.

Now Jolla is planning to revive Meego and bring out smartphones based on it.

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Jolla by ex-Nokia to make MeeGo smartphones

By Vasudev Ram


Seen via a tweet by @hnfirehose.

Related links:

A JollaMobile tweet announcing it

An article about Jolla on TheVerge.com . The article says that they have investors and are hiring top MeeGo talent.

Excerpt:

[ Jolla's Chief Operating Officer Marc Dillon, was with Nokia for almost 11 years, and was the company's Principal Engineer for MeeGo (formerly Maemo) from January 2006. ]

Hope their plans work out. I had investigated a Maemo-based phone, the Nokia N900, and it had some great features (such as a hardware QWERTY keyboard, 3.5 inch screen (good at that time), good Skype integration, xterm support (so you could do shell scripting as well as programming on the phone in any Linux-based language for which there was a Maemo port, ssh into servers, etc), but decided not to get it after all, due to Nokia discontinuing support for it, and also because it had some moderate hardware issues.

If Jolla can come out with some good MeeGo-based smartphones something like the Nokia N900, without messing up much on any point, they may have some good success. Such phones won't capture the mass consumer market though.

- Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises

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