PySide has now finished migration from its previous standalone setup to Qt Project infrastructure. Being a Qt Add-on provides PySide a permanent home and perfect alignment with Qt Frameworks. Furthermore, the project gets improved visibility, as well as a simple, carefully thought out meritocratic project structure. In addition to the wiki that is already hosted by Qt, the PySide mailing list and the bug tracker are also [...]
Orange Helium: a Lightweight QtWebKit-Based Browser
Orange Labs UK is a development group that has been working with Qt on mobile web technologies for some years. Some of their project work has turned into popular customer-facing applications like Orange Wednesdays. In 2010, around the time of Qt Quick’s rise to prominence, Orange Labs began a mobile browser project to experiment with QML. The result is Orange Helium, a lightweight [...]
QtQuick: Why Bother with QML?
This post is an introduction to the next several posts. If you’re bored with QtQuick introductions (since there are many)… then there’s probably nothing to see here. Composite (and its ancestor Hydrogen) has always had a Qt UI. And when it comes to GUI, Qt is the toolkit that I prefer to use. Why Because I really don’t like UI development. I like to [...]
Getting Multi-Touch Qt on Fedora 16
In seeking to continue Composite development, I needed a multi-touch environment. All along, I figured that MeeGo would be that environment. But the death of MeeGo means that this is no longer an attractive option. I could do it, but it would be a stagnant OS, forever stuck at release 1.2.0. I don’t want this for a development environment. But as far as I know, [...]
Nokia N9 App Clinic at QtDD San Francisco
The second instance of Qt Developer Days 2011took place in San Francisco from 29th November to 1st December. As well as in the QtDD event in Munich a month earlier, the N9 App Doctors in white jackets were there, hosting the N9 App Clinic. Also in San Francisco, the main purpose of the clinic was help developers with their new N9 applications or bringing [...]
Qt VS Add-in 1.1.10 Released
Together with Qt 4.8.0 we’ve released version 1.1.10 of the Qt Visual Studio Add-in. This release contains multiple bugfixes and improvements. The full changelog is available here. You can get it here: http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/visual-studio-add-in If you find bugs, please report them in our bug tracker: https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/ Note: Qt VS Add-in 1.1.10 will be the last release done by Nokia. We’re happy to announce that [...]
Qt Creator 2.4.0 released
We are happy to announce that finally Qt Creator 2.4.0 is ready to be published. I’ll summarize a few of the great amount of features and improvements in this release. You find a longer list in our change log, and you can also have a look at what we fixed for 2.4.0 in our bugtracker. The commit log from our repository is only recommended [...]
Qt 4.8.0 Released
Qt has reached another important evolutionary milestone today. We are very proud to announce that Qt 4.8.0 has now been released. Many people have worked long and hard to deliver Qt 4.8.0. Today that hard work reaches final release maturity, and we are celebrating! Featuring Qt Platform Abstraction, threaded OpenGL support, multithreaded HTTP and optimized file system access, Qt 4.8.0 can be downloaded [...]
Qt 4.8 Docs now on Qt DevNet
This Article Is From Qt Developer Network: We have been mirroring a stable version of the Qt 4.7 documentation on the Qt Developer Network for a while. Our elves (read: Gurudutt, Pål, Thorbjørn, Bjørn and Jone together with Gunder, our designer, and Martin and Casper from the Qt doc team) spend a lot of time and effort on polishing and ironing out quirks. [...]
Qt 4.8 Libraries for Windows, Mac and Linux/X11 Released as Stand-Alone Download
Happy Holidays! Today we release the Qt 4.8 libraries for those of you that target Windows, Mac and Linux/X11. The stand-alone download of the Qt 4.8 libraries will be followed, in January, by a full Qt SDK update including the updated Qt 4.8 libraries as well as further improved Symbian and Nokia N9 targets based upon Qt 4.7.4. So for those of you [...]
Anatomy of an App: Qt Developer Days QML App and HTML5 Web App
Futurice’s Riku Valtasola took some time last week to discuss how they created the Qt Developer Days app in QML, mirrored the functionality in an HTML5 web app, and the challenges they faced implementing OAuth in a mobile environment. The resulting service encapsulates an entire conference agenda in a custom XML structure, allows attendees to build their personal conference schedule, and collects session feedback [...]
New Guides for Those who are Learning Qt Quick or Qt Quick Components on Symbian and N9
A post about new developer guides has been on the on the Qt Blog for a few weeks. We’ve made a small, but interesting update and we thought we should drop some lines about it. Just a few weeks ago we published two new developer guides. They are targeted toward those just starting out with Qt Quick and Qt Quick Components and focus [...]
Ubuntu and QML
This Article was origianlly posted on jonobacon.org Last week I delivered a keynote at the Qt Developer Days 2011 event in San Francisco. I have not seen a video of the keynote online yet, but I am assured it should be online soon. Rick Spencer gave a keynote at the Munich event shortly before UDS in October. Over the last year or so the [...]
Using QDeclarativeImageProvider to load QPixmap to QML Image Element
Recently for my mobile application, I required cache image from network and use that in QML application. Prior to caching, I was using WebView element to show image from network, but I needed to show that image multiple places, to avoid multiple network request I decided to prefetch network image and show that using Image element. To make it work, I downloaded network image [...]
New Global Head of Developer Relations Discusses Qt Milestones and Future
“I’m new to the company, but not new to Qt. We relied on it at LucasFilm” noted new VP, Global Head of Developer Relations Richard Kerris as he opened his keynote at Qt Developer Days in San Francisco last week. Richard is only a few weeks into his tenure at Nokia, and last week’s Qt Developer Days conference was the first opportunity many in [...]
A Qt QML Beginner’s Project: MotoRing, part 2 – Rewind and Reveal
Finally, here’s the much-demanded second part to this QML beginner-focused series. Okay, one guy asked, but he sounded really interested. I said at the end of the first article that I would progress to the next phase in this one. But the request for a screenshot of the app at this point got me to thinking that it would be worth more to fledgling [...]
Qt Quick Also Available for Desktop
Get familiar with best programming practices using Qt Quick for building applications with QML by exploring the Qt Quick Application Developer Guide for Desktop. The guide helps you through the implementation of NoteApp, a tool for managing daily notes which uses various advanced UI concepts including animations, database storage and Javascript usage for application logic rather than common well-known UI Elements used in [...]
QML/Get GPS data
Code snippet that draws ui and shows GPS data and accuracy, also with GPS on/off switch if one wants to conserve power. Made by: Ossipena Modified by: Venemo Modified by: texrat main.qml // original code by Ossipena. // Modified by Venemo and Texrat import QtQuick 1.1 import com.nokia.meego 1.0 PageStackWindow { id: appWindow initialPage: mainPage showStatusBar: true MainPage { id: mainPage } ToolBarLayout { [...]
Liverpool FC Match and News Centre app: Built using Qt
Kathy Smith, Mobile Manager at Liverpool FC, talks about the club’s mobile match and news application. The app provides fans club news, live text feeds from matches, wallpaper, videos, and other club content. The app was coded for the club by InfoMedia and Operations Manager Sanjay Mistry provides an insight into the use of Qt and the Qt SDK. He notes how Qt [...]
Nokia has Raspberry Pi Vouchers for 400 Qt Developers
You’ll have seen quite a buzz here about Qt on Raspberry Pi, alongside some of the prettiest demos that have been submitted to us so far. At next week’s Qt Dev Days in San Francisco, developers will have a chance to play with one of the few alpha boards in the wild. Nokia are one of our partners, and have done a large amount [...]
