Android Lighthouse: Android Qt Port
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Android Lighthouse: Android Qt Port
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Re: Android Lighthouse: Android Qt Port
#2Interesting. Apparently, this project on puts self-contained full-screen Qt apps onto Android machines via NDK [1].
However, I find nothing about Android integration on the level of Intents and Activities, not even whether that's planned.
Re: Android Lighthouse: Android Qt Port
#3Doesn't matter - Nokia will cancel Qt in the next round of budgets.
The real question is how screwed are C++ developers in general?
MSFT's offering is switch to managed C++/C++ CLR and use WPF - two doomed technologies together. Or there is always MFC
Apple say don't even try with C++ just switch to objective C
Your only choice is GTK (from C) and plug into the rich commercial opportunities of Gnome and Linux on the desktop.
So is C++ on the desktop dead?
Re: Android Lighthouse: Android Qt Port
#4Interesting. Apparently, this project on puts self-contained full-screen Qt apps onto Android machines via NDK [1]. However, I find nothing about Android integration on the level of Intents and Activities, not even whether that's planned. 1. http://code.google.com/p/android-lighthouse/wiki/QADK
Lighthouse was an experimental project to redo the framebuffer architecture. Some enterprising developers hooked it up to Android's surfaceFlinger and boom, you're running on Android. It's also been shown to run on iOS.
Lighthouse isn't really a full Android-Java/NDK integration suite, although it's a very good foundation for one.
Re: Android Lighthouse: Android Qt Port
#5I've noticed there are a lot of ports from C/C++ to Java of late. Are there some sophisticated tools floating out there for syntactic transformations from C/C++ -> Java? Or is this all due to the gravitational pull of the JVM/Android?
Re: Android Lighthouse: Android Qt Port
#6Doesn't matter - Nokia will cancel Qt in the next round of budgets. The real question is how screwed are C++ developers in general? MSFT's offering is switch to managed C++/C++ CLR and use WPF - two doomed technologies together. Or there is always MFC Apple say don't even try with C++ just switch to objective C Your only choice is GTK (from C) and plug into the rich commercial opportunities of Gnome and Linux on the…
A developer who is so dependent on one language/framework that he cannot learn another in a reasonable amount of time is one I have no sympathy for.
Re: Android Lighthouse: Android Qt Port
#7Doesn't matter - Nokia will cancel Qt in the next round of budgets. The real question is how screwed are C++ developers in general? MSFT's offering is switch to managed C++/C++ CLR and use WPF - two doomed technologies together. Or there is always MFC Apple say don't even try with C++ just switch to objective C Your only choice is GTK (from C) and plug into the rich commercial opportunities of Gnome and Linux on the…
Why would Qt die once Nokia looses interest in it? I am sure Qt can survive on its own.
Re: Android Lighthouse: Android Qt Port
#8Doesn't matter - Nokia will cancel Qt in the next round of budgets. The real question is how screwed are C++ developers in general? MSFT's offering is switch to managed C++/C++ CLR and use WPF - two doomed technologies together. Or there is always MFC Apple say don't even try with C++ just switch to objective C Your only choice is GTK (from C) and plug into the rich commercial opportunities of Gnome and Linux on the…
The nice thing is that QT is now fully OSS- LGPL and GPL versions. This means that development can go on outside of QT/Nokia.
The difficult part is that there is no current team to do so, but some of the current devs may be willing to continue work in a leadership position of the OSS effort after the next rounds of layoffs.
Alternatively, a company could be formed (YC12?) to continue coding QT, and offer support + training. Hell, I'm tempted ;)
Re: Android Lighthouse: Android Qt Port
#9Doesn't matter - Nokia will cancel Qt in the next round of budgets. The real question is how screwed are C++ developers in general? MSFT's offering is switch to managed C++/C++ CLR and use WPF - two doomed technologies together. Or there is always MFC Apple say don't even try with C++ just switch to objective C Your only choice is GTK (from C) and plug into the rich commercial opportunities of Gnome and Linux on the…
A developer who is so dependent on one language/framework that he cannot learn another in a reasonable amount of time is one I have no sympathy for.
Learning Java is easy - porting 20years of libraries from C/C++ to Java is trickier.
We only just got done porting them all from Fortran!
Re: Android Lighthouse: Android Qt Port
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
A developer who is so dependent on one language/framework that he cannot learn another in a reasonable amount of time is one I have no sympathy for.
Learning Java is easy - porting 20years of libraries from C/C++ to Java is trickier. We only just got done porting them all from Fortran!
You could always use some sort of FFI. I don't think it's that big a deal, since you can still use C and C++ libraries on any desktop platforms + on Android.