The future of Qt: Bringing apps to the next billion

jasonblack | 21 June, 2011 06:05

Exciting news for the developer community today, and in particular for those who are focused on Qt: At the Nokia Connection 2011 event in Singapore, Nokia Senior Vice President, Developer Experience Marco Argenti confirmed that Nokia will “make Qt core to bringing applications to the next billion,” and he reassured developers that investments made in Qt today will live on in the future with Nokia.

During his presentation, “Qt and the Next Billion”, Argenti noted the following:
  • “Qt-powered Apps have serious momentum on Ovi Store. Our consumers are downloading more Qt-written apps on over 100 million devices worldwide. And today I’m happy to announce that we will make Qt core to bringing great applications to the next billion.”
  • “Why did we pick Qt? Qt is a great cross-platform framework. Qt is modern and efficient. Qt Quick bridges the design phase with the production phase – making it incredibly easy to design, prototype and develop new applications. With QML, the interface markup language, web developers can feel right at home creating great UI’s.”
  • “Qt is widely supported by an active community of over 1/2 million developers. And Nokia will continue to invest in Qt, as we’ve recently released Qt SDK 1.1, and we’re actively involved in contributing to Qt 5.”
This means developers will have both a large existing audience to target with Qt-based mobile apps (100 million Symbian-based phones, plus our first-ever pure touch smartphone, the Nokia N9).

Argenti also noted that: “We will disclose further details in due time; today we want our developers to see the opportunity that the future of Qt brings as part of our mobile phones strategy.”

Learn more about developing for the Nokia N9 and developing with Qt.

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Excellent idea...

svdwal | 21/06/2011, 11:54

... to put Qt on S40, if that is what this announcement is all about. But for two things:

1) why not being explicit, and say that Qt is to be put on top of S40? This is about real developer livelihoods, not some daft reality TV show.

2) you must also put Qt on Windows Phone (or whatever it is called nowadays). Having Qt also on WinPhone makes the success of WinPhone much more likely and that argument of platform segmentation we got earlier now works against you with a billion Qt devices out there soon.

Agree, excellent idea, just continue to prove "Qt everywhere" with Qt on WP7

ForsBrunn | 21/06/2011, 20:58

Good news, but still Nokia need to be more clear about the bright future for Qt/C++. This is needed after all the bad news the last months about WP7 being the main track with tools from Microsoft.

I agree with the earlier comment: Now it's time for Nokia to prove that "Qt everywhere" becomes true. Use Qt/C++ as the main development path also for WP7.
In this case a lot of developers will be interested in developing for it ( I will, still on my Mac ).

Problem on downloading new QT SDK 1.1 Offline version for windows

chintandave_er | 21/06/2011, 23:42

chintandave_er

I am facing problem on downloading new QT SDK 1.1 Offline version for windows.

I cant donwload full 1.78Gb file. it can only download file of some kbs. (here not any bandwidth issue for downloading ).

Is it working well anywhere?

Problem on downloading new QT SDK 1.1 Offline version for windows

chintandave_er | 22/06/2011, 09:32

chintandave_er

Problem on downloading new QT SDK 1.1 Offline version for windows

An error occurred while processing your request.
Reference #172.c5e07073.1308724217.24ac5d0

More facts, less screamers

krix | 22/06/2011, 11:59

I agree with @svdwal that some more precise information (or at least some firm statement about the direction) has to be disclosed.

We (Qt developers) bet our lives on Qt as it's supposed to give us bread. If there are no projects that we can do for a living (right now it's extremely difficult to obtain commercial project because of Nokia PR mess), some developers will go towards Android. It will be much more difficult to bring them back...

More facts, less screamers

chriske86 | 22/06/2011, 23:57

Agree krix, I"m facing the same problem as a Qt developer...

Future of QT

nomanameer | 23/06/2011, 11:27

i want to know what is future of QT , If any body invest time in development of QT base Application then what 'll his future.

need details

developer 123 | 27/06/2011, 02:46

"We will disclose further details in due time; today we want our developers to see the opportunity that the future of Qt brings as part of our mobile phones strategy." - you have to hurry up with disclosing details. How big part of your strategy? People loosing trust to Nokia anouncements after Feb 2011. E.g. my employer just about to close planned huge Qt/Nokia project and move to Android. If there are no more news about bright Qt future it will happen within next month. Please, be more specific: are you going to support Qt on WP? are you going to support Qt on all new coming S40? If yes then when?

Re: The future of Qt: Bringing apps to the next billion

Sheenmue | 28/06/2011, 06:12

Yes, it's important to know more details about Qt plans on the next billion strategy. Bringing a near smartphone experience to S40 devices would be a great idea, probably the best one from Nokia in the recent time, but it's not the best moment to trust in Nokia as a developer so you should be clear on this topic.

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