With Qt, Nokia is heading in right direction

chall3ng3r | 06 March, 2010 02:44

Hi,

First I'd like to apologize for not updating this blog for long time.

I have been following Qt developments for some time now, and was very keen todo some experiments. Tonight, I finally decided to start some experimentation. To my surprise, I followed some simple instructions, and viola! I made my first Qt "Hello World!" application.

I am specifically impressed with MADDE (Maemo Application Development and Debugging Environment) which allows to compile Qt based applications for Nokia N900 or any Maemo 5 device from within Windows without going through Linux VM. MADDE team is working to enable same for Mac OSX and other flavors of Linux. Find out more at http://wiki.maemo.org/MADDE

Here's how I did it:

Qt LogoNokia's push for Qt on MeeGo (or Maemo) and Symbian now making a lot of sense. And after some initial experiemnts I think it's the right direction, where developers will not have to learn new programing language for each platform, but just select the target platform to compile for. And best of all, the application is compiled natively, so no major performance drop and sandbox issues.

With Qt on Symbian and MeeGo, there's now even bigger opportunity for mobile developers to target greater audience with less development efforts.

I am already quite excited, and going to continue my experiments with Qt. I will try to share some more tips and my findings on the way.

Have any beginner Qt questions? post them in comments, I will try to answer.

// chall3ng3r //

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