Qt 5.1 Released With Android and iOS Technology Previews

Re:Qt 5.1 Released With Android and iOS Technology Previews by pbsdp on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @10:58AM (#5984927)

How are websites holding up against the native App Store apps for apps?

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Re:Qt 5.1 Released With Android and iOS Technology Previews by kombine on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @11:03AM (#5984968)

You can't really compare websites with Qt apps. QML was made from the ground up to allow for building fluid UIs. It is rendered using OpenGL. HTML was never meant to be used for app development, hence the poor experience. Qt and QML is just not native(widgets will look different, etc), but it will perform well. And you can always imitate the look and feel of native OS so apps at least don't look too alien.

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Re:Qt 5.1 Released With Android and iOS Technology Previews by pbsdp on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @11:06AM (#5984987)

> Qt and QML is just not native(widgets will look different, etc), but it will perform well.

Yes, which is not what people want. They want apps that fit in with the larger platform and exploit it's featureset.

We already went through this on Mac OS X. I use a Qt/Mac app every day for work, and would ditch it in a second if a native alternative was produced.

Unfortunately, it's an extremely niche application, and the competition is nowhere near caught up.

> And you can always imitate the look and feel of native OS so apps at least don't look too alien.

That's never worked out well for anyone, ever, in the entire history of cross-platform widget library attempts.

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Re:Qt 5.1 Released With Android and iOS Technology Previews by kombine on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @11:19AM (#5985085)

I worked for a company developing cross-platform Qt applications(we deployed for Linux and Windows though) and all our clients were pretty happy, so I would refrain from the claim "That's never worked out well for anyone, ever, in the entire history of cross-platform widget library attempts.". My example is just one out of hundreds and hundreds of uses of Qt in industry.

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Re:Qt 5.1 Released With Android and iOS Technology Previews by pbsdp on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @11:21AM (#5985096)

If by 'worked' you mean that you were still able to sell it.

It doesn't fit into the platform and nobody actually likes the result, but if you have a market niche, you can get away with it -- until a competitor appears that actually invests in what their users want.

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Re:Qt 5.1 Released With Android and iOS Technology Previews by numo16 on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @11:46AM (#5985316)

Qt seems to be working alright for Autodesk Maya and Mudbox. They migrated the UI to it and everyone I've talked to that use these on various platforms don't really have any complaint about the UI (especially since they can use Qt, PyQt, etc... for building plugins).

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Re:Qt 5.1 Released With Android and iOS Technology Previews by coffeaddict on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @11:55AM (#5985375)

Also worth mentioning Qt Creator itself I would say.

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Re:Qt 5.1 Released With Android and iOS Technology Previews by zanny on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @03:06PM (#5986817)

And VLC, and Clementine, and Doomsday, Mathematica, Skype, and Virtualbox...

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Re:Qt 5.1 Released With Android and iOS Technology Previews by mrpippy on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @10:52PM (#5988920)

Mathematica has a Mac-native frontend, and always has. They've used Qt for the Linux/Unix frontend since 6.0, not sure if they're using Qt for Windows or not.

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Re:Qt 5.1 Released With Android and iOS Technology Previews by pbsdp on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @04:07PM (#5987193)

All of which are absolutely terrible looking applications with broken platform UX on Mac OS X.

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Re:Qt 5.1 Released With Android and iOS Technology Previews by toyg on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @04:45PM (#5987401)

Most of which wouldn't even run on OSX if they weren't written in a cross-platform GUI that dramatically reduces development times.

I'm sure the VLC guys would like to spend their days dealing with complicated video codecs rather than the craziness of yet-another-goddamn-GUI-platform.

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Re:Qt 5.1 Released With Android and iOS Technology Previews by dman on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @01:15PM (#5986027)

Also Sidefx Houdini

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Re:Qt 5.1 Released With Android and iOS Technology Previews by toyg on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @04:52PM (#5987435)

> I use a Qt/Mac app every day for work, and would ditch it in a second if a native alternative was produced

Name please? You know, this community is full of makers, people could get ideas and make your wish become true...

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