Hi Daniel, In short, QWidget has probably a long life in the desktop but in mobile it's fading away fast already in Qt 4.7/4.8 since Qt Quick is just a lot better to obtain a good user experience. We are talking about the UI frontend only, in the backend your Qt code is just as good for any form factor.
On 10/06/2011 10:14 PM, ext Daniel Mendizabal wrote: > But what happen now when new mobile phones come with Qt5 without > QWidget support? All existing projects based on this technology > currently in OVI store or private clients will stop working from one > day to the other? First note that one thing is the Qt Project (deciding e.g. what is supported in Qt 5) and another thing is Nokia or any other vendor shipping Qt enabled products (deciding what Qt versions and support they have for their products). > On the other hand, what happen with the users who purchased these > applications from OVI store? Will they loose them as soon as their > devices are upgraded to Qt5...? Symbian Belle and MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan are the last Nokia releases shipping Qt libraries. They are based on Qt 4 and afaik there haven't been any announcements on upgrading them to Qt 5. As a matter of fact Nokia Developer has been insisting on the use of Qt Quick for mobile apps for a while now. For instance, in the Nokia N9 QWidget is not supported already. Would you mind pointing to your Qt apps in the Nokia store? Just curious and interested in thinking their best upgrade path to Qt 5 enabled products. You say they have a bunch of code behind but is all of it QWidget UI? Note that you can keep your Qt backend intact and plug it to a QML UI with relative ease. This is probably a good idea for mobile apps based on Qt 4 already. -- Quim Gil _______________________________________________ Qt5-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback
