Revision as of 13:54, 24 November 2008

Overview

Qt (pronounced like "cute) is a cross-platform application framework, which was originally created and developed by Trolltech. Nokia acquired Trolltech in June 2008, and renamed it to Qt Software as a group within Nokia.

Qt is available for Windows, Mac OS, Linux/X11, Windows CE, Embedded Linux, and soon for S60 as well.

The S60 support was announced in Symbian Smartphone Show in October 2008 and there is an early tech-review version for early adopters available.

A port of Qt for [http://maemo.org maemo (Hildon) is also available.]

There are great instructions available, if you want to get started with cross-platform development with Qt.

Available bindings

Although Qt is built around C++, you can use Qt APIs from other languages as well

• with Python through PyQt
• with Java through Qt Jambi

Additional resources

• http://trolltech.com/
• http://trolltech.com/developer
• Qt Developer/Labs Forums http://labs.trolltech.com/forums/
• Other developer community resources http://trolltech.com/developer/community-resources including for example http://qtcentre.org