Category: Qt
Orange Wednesdays is the first in a series of Signature Applications produced by Orange UK, and it uses Qt to build for Nokia devices. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Mark Sage and Rafel Uddin of Orange to discuss the creation of Orange Wednesdays.
Mark is...
Developers are seeing the benefits of publishing their apps through Nokia's Ovi Store, as evidenced by today's announcement made by Nokia. In fact, more than 400,000 new developers signed on to Nokia in the past 12 months.
“Without any promotion or marketing dollars, in...
It's the difference between walking and dancing. Simple transitions visually walk a user from one state to another. With a technique called "easing curves" your transitions dance. An example in the Qt Creator IDE shows you how.
First, try to have the animation tell the user...
Communication among objects in a Qt application is provided by signals and slots . The signal and slots mechanism has been a core power of the Qt framework, radically simplifying the task of structured communication among C++ objects. Signals and slots are connected with the function:...
And you thought you did cool stuff with Qt. This past weekend Dreamworks Animation SKG released Megamind and captured top box-office honors, raking in almost $50 million USD . If you were lucky enough to attend one of the Qt Developer Days events you heard how Qt plays a role in the...
Changes to the Symbian Foundation were announced earlier today, and at the same time, Nokia reaffirmed its commitment to Symbian , the world’s most widely used smartphone platform.
“Nokia will continue to invest in the development of the Symbian platform; and we plan to make...
I learned more in three days at Qt Developer Days than I have learned in any month that I can remember. The most impressive learning is the deep sense of community that pervaded the conference. I have been to and helped produce more technical conferences than I care to remember, and...
I'm at Qt Developer Days this week in San Francisco, and one line of questions I keep hearing from developers relates to the cross-platform promise of working with Qt. It came up in yesterday's Qt Essentials tutorial. I overhear the question in the halls. This morning Nokia CTO Rich Green...
Contribute a high-quality or topical article about developing with Qt to the Forum Nokia Wiki, and you could win a Nokia N8 device. A new contest will award several Nokia N8 devices to the top contributors. All submitted articles will be judged according to presentation and the quality of...
Nokia announced today that it is streamlining its development environments across device platforms, and focusing solely on Qt as a robust, tried and tested framework that unlocks the hardware, software and service capabilities of the existing Nokia smartphone range as well as creating huge...
Nokia this week introduced a version of Qt 4.7 that can be installed to Symbian devices, including the Nokia N8 and Nokia C7. The version is for development purposes only, and it cannot be used to deploy Qt 4.7 apps to current Symbian devices. But the new version does let developers...
U.S. and Canadian developers, do you need to learn more about Qt, Nokia’s framework for cross-platform app development? If so, you’re in luck. Qt training opportunities are everywhere this autumn. Here are just a few of the upcoming trainings:
* Toronto, Canada: 13 - 14...
The audience loved them, and so did the judges. The team from iNDT rocked the Hackathon with their implementation of Face Recognition Device Lock . In less than two days, the virtuoso team of Jackson Feijo, Allan Bezerra, and Wilson Prata performing with the latest Qt framework and...
This video takes you inside this week's 2010 Calling All Innovators Hackathon in London. Nokia connected the best consumer generated
app ideas with top developers from all over the world. The 13 best ideas
were developed into real apps for the new Nokia N8 at the Nokia World
Developers'...
Sorry for going initial crazy, but sometimes I can't help myself. Developers at Nokia Developer Summit are getting some hands-on time with two SDKs that have been released in recent weeks:
With the Nokia Qt SDK , developers can distribute apps to approximately
175 million Nokia...