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It extremely saddens me that Qt is still not heavily working on mobile. I would gladly pay for official support on Android and iOS. They could have become the c
by densh 14y ago
It extremely saddens me that Qt is still not heavily working on mobile. I would gladly pay for official support on Android and iOS. They could have become the cross-platform mobile toolkit. I wonder if Nokia is the reason why that's not happening.
- Geee 14y agoIt's working extremely well on Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo, where it's the recommended way of building apps (still on the Qt4 branch). There has been work towards making porting to other platforms easier with the Lighthouse project, but I guess the official porting and integration work should be Google's and Apple's responsibility. There are unofficial ports for Android and iOS, and actually a few Qt apps on App Store and Android market already.
- densh 14y ago> It's working extremely well on Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo, where it's the recommended way of building apps (still on the Qt4 branch). Of course it is. Nokia might have bought Trolltech just for this reason. But the fact that it isn't supported on any non-Nokia platform cancels all the benefits. > ...I guess the official porting and integration work should be Google's and Apple's responsibility. Should Microsoft maintain Qt's port to Windows? That's not how it works. Both Apple and Google care only about their own platforms and existence of strong cross-platform solution will actually hurt them. They _benefit_ from lock-in and inability to port apps from one platform to another.
- Geee 14y agoWell, I wasn't clear but I implied that it hasn't happened because rather closed nature of Android and especially iOS. I'm not sure if this is the proper reason though.