Digia Releases Qt 5.1 With Preliminary Support For Android and iOS 86
An anonymous reader writes "Finnish software and services firm Digia, which bought Qt from Nokia back in August, has released version 5.1 of the cross-platform application framework. Among the changes are 'significant improvements' to Qt Quick and preliminary support for Android and iOS. The latter means Qt on Android and iOS are both considered Technology Previews, letting developers start building for the two mobile operating systems and porting apps from other platforms by reusing the same code base. Although most of the Qt functionality and tool integration is already in place to start developing mobile apps, Digia promises complete ports to Android and iOS will come with the release of Qt 5.2 'later this year.'"
Re:Confused (Score:5, Informative)
Google released the NDK (Native Development Kit) not long after Android was introduced because they finally clued in that Java simply isn't fast enough on slower processors to do gaming.
Re:Confused (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Jump Ship (Score:3, Informative)
This allows for optimized applications on low power devices, while still being able to use web technologies where it makes sense.
iOS apps were Objective-C only for two months (Score:5, Informative)
Re:will Apple allow this? (Score:5, Informative)
Yes. There are already Qt based apps on the app store.