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Re:A Book about Qt5 by toyg on Sunday March 03, 2019 @09:37PM (#19298377)
At the time, Nokia had even ported Qt to Symbian, which is a much more limited platform than iOs or Android. I don’t think there is any real impediment to using QtWidgets on mobile platforms.

Edit: to clarify, I mean the original Qt C++ toolkit, not the Python bindings (pyqt/pyside); the bindings only ever worked on Maemo, if i remember correctly.

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Re:A Book about Qt5 by pjmlp on Monday March 04, 2019 @02:12AM (#19299384)
Kind of.

First they had to create PIPS, a POSIX environment for Symbian, because Symbian wasn't POSIX and the native language was a C++ dialect known as just Symbian C++.

Secondly, the Qt based apps weren't pure Qt, you needed to have a couple of #ifdefs sprinkled around, calling Symbian APIs directly, even for a plain hello world.

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