Digia releases Qt 5.2 with Android and iOS support • Hacker News Board

Re: Digia releases Qt 5.2 with Android and iOS support

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Post by daliusd » Thu, Dec 12, 2013, 7:13 AM UTC

alok-g wrote: post #49

Timmmmbob wrote: post #43

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I've used QML / QtQuick for a while. Here are my thoughts 1. It makes writing UI state machines much simpler since it is declarative. Instead of saying "when this information changes, update the UI", you just say "This bit of UI shows this information" and then it updates it does it automatically. 2. Animation is also much easier (and possible at all). 3. Layout is... myeh it is not so good actually. UI files made it…

Is using Javascript mandatory (for common uses)?

You can keep it minimal if you want to. In some situations you can avoid javascript completely (e.g. QML based framework covers all details for you).

Re: Digia releases Qt 5.2 with Android and iOS support

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Post by daliusd » Thu, Dec 12, 2013, 7:17 AM UTC

Aldo_MX wrote: post #47

daliusd wrote: post #10

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Actually QML apps can be written only using QML + Javascript. Performance or platform dependent parts can be written in C++. Some Qt based frameworks experience. Ubuntu Touch chose to develop apps using Javascript only where possible. BlackBerry apps support both Javascript and C++. There are people who believe that QML must be used only for UI and all logic must be written in C++. IMHO Javascript is good choice as i…

Javascript in iOS is not a good idea, unless you are just prototyping/building a basic app.

Maybe. My experience (not Qt based) with Javascript on iOS is not very bad (I expected worse). While I don't like that Apple created fake problems using script languages in iOS.

Re: Digia releases Qt 5.2 with Android and iOS support

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Post by malkia » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 12:13 AM UTC

malkia wrote: post #48

Is this in the git? I only see the v5.2.0-rc1 tag: Q:\qt5>git ls-remote && git tag From git://gitorious.org/qt/qt5.git ... qt-v5.0.0-alpha1 v5.0.0-beta1 v5.1.0 v5.1.0-alpha1 v5.1.0-beta1 v5.1.0-rc1 v5.1.0-rc2 v5.1.1 v5.2.0-alpha1 v5.2.0-beta1 v5.2.0-rc1

I just saw that tag v5.2.0 has been added.