Nokia: Unified QT SDK for Symbian & Meego app development

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10 points·brkumar··6 comments

I never developed any apps with Qt, But I did tinker with it long long back and was very impressed with it. It would have been excellent if Android sdk could be used with Qt. It's an excellent environment and certainly not as bloated as Eclipse. But that would be a reality if there's an "all-platform-NDK" for Android that would skip compiling the app for every different hardware platform.

Slightly OT, but it's probably the first time I've heard someone "officially" say the QT name. For some reason everyone I met pronounced it "cutie", not "cute". I was just wondering if that's a common confusion?

I met with Trolltech years ago at a trade show and I never heard "Cute", just "cue-tee".

The Nokia rep I met with last month insisted it's always been "cute". The history in the old reference books say it was inspired by "Xt", and I don't see that pronounced as "sweet".

Anyway, I've been working with the Qt Declarative stuff for a little while and while it's nice and certainly a path to get iPhone/Android experiences on their platform, it's still got a long way to go.

The solution in search of a problem.

Qt is used by heavy-duty desktop apps like the new release of Autodesk Maya [1]. Nothing solved there?

[1] http://qt.nokia.com/about/news/autodeskae-mayaae-2011-qt-hel...

Do you see any difference between an OS and a GUI toolkit which was ported to that OS?

Even a good GUI framework cannot solve deep problems of the OS.

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