Qt Mobility Project, Tech Preview Update (.sis now available)

Posted by Gerard on December 9, 2009 · 10 comments

As promised, an updated package is now available for you to download.
This update includes the aformentioned Symbian .sis package with install instructions :)

Have fun with the preview and we will keep the updates coming your way!

Note: the included example applications are simple desktop implementations. Feel free to modify, or better still, share something cool of your own.

Even more good news:
Our buddies over at Forum Nokia are running a competition that may be of interest to you!
Check this out:> Qt Mobility Contest

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10 comments

1 Birdy December 9, 2009 at 12:13 pm
 

Too bad, that support for Maemo5/N900 ist pretty bad (currently?).

2 Gerard December 9, 2009 at 4:41 pm
 

@Birdy
Not sure I understand your question fully, but I can say that Maemo are certainly not forgotten and we hope to be able to provide .deb package updates also in the not too distant future.
Stay tuned :)

3 Victor December 9, 2009 at 6:41 pm
 

I think Birdy meant that Maemo stuff in not implemented. Say no GPS implementation for Qt Location API.

So when we can expect that ? And will it be for Maemo 5 (Fremantle) or it is only going to be for Maemo 6 ? At least in source code folder I see *_s60 and *_wince extensions for mobile platforms.

4 Bastian December 9, 2009 at 7:04 pm
 

Nice work is there going to be a full Bluetooth support like it was in the Qt Embedded.
Thats what I really miss in using this enormous library.
And just to ensure the need :) I’m also lokking forward/hope for maemo. Please.

5 Jason December 10, 2009 at 4:23 am
 

From the rules pdf:

“The optional supporting document must be in .doc, .pdf, .xls, .ppt, .rtf, or .txt format…”

Why no ODT? Isn’t qt about openness now a days?

6 Roger December 10, 2009 at 4:48 am
 

Someone correct me if my understanding is wrong, thx ^_^

1, Mobility API is Framework for help Developer to integrate Mobile Services in his/her mobile APP
2, It currently support Symbian platform
3, Will support Maemo in the future (or already?)
4, Other standard Mobile Platform’s porting (like Windows Mobile) also under consideration
5, None-standard Mobile Platform’s (like some CE based Mobile) porting is impossible because their do not have an Standard platform/service/device API
6, None-standard Mobile Platform’s porting maybe can be done the the fans use those Mobile

7 Gerard December 10, 2009 at 5:39 am
 

@ Roger
1: Yes, the new APIs are intended for mobile (and other) app developers. We are targeting common APIs first so that Qt developers can easily build apps to use Location, Messaging, Multimedia etc. services accross platforms. For mobile app developers, the idea is to make Maemo, Symbian accessable from one set of APIs. The intent is that developers learn/use Qt and you dont need to understand the complexities of each underlying platform.

2: Qt supports Symbain as one of many operating systems and we have implemented symbian backends (adaptation layers) for many of the APIs. And more are to come (Multimedia for example does not yet have a Symbian Backend)

3: answering also for Victor, Maemo 5 and 6 are in the scope of work for the project. We are working on the API backends and will share here as things progress.

4/5: There is a table within the on-line docs that should answer this for you.
Please see: http://qt.nokia.com/doc/qtmobility-1.0-tp/index.html#platform-compatability

6: Great if developers continue the work, and extend.

8 elviin December 10, 2009 at 1:36 pm
 

And a kind of a Telephony API is missing?

9 Gerard December 14, 2009 at 11:16 am
 

@ elviin
I think there are quite a few other APIs that would be valuable to developers and I would agree that Telephony would be among them.
What others would you like to see?
No priority promises of course, :) as we have a lot underway at present, but it would be interesting to hear what people would really like to have available.
I also really look forward to seeing some example applications from people as we progress. Its pretty rewarding and often suprising to see the ideas. Back in the Trolltech days we saw some ‘thinking outside of the box’ ideas from people with the ‘Greenphone’ One guy I met at MWC (3GSM) had superglued (and I assume internally wired!) a GPS antenna to the phone to support his app!! Was great to see. Funny, but real cool :)

10 moj December 19, 2009 at 9:00 am
 

hi
how can i download the .sis?
i don’t know what is git?

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