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Qt for Rapid Mobile Application Development

Ariya HidayatQt Software, Nokia, Norway

Abstract

Today’s mobile devices landscape requires a change in the way applications are developed. The challenges and thepressures increase every single day, from a demand for multiple-platform applications, ease of use of the development tools,as well as a much faster time-to-market. Qt is a well-known, multi-platform application GUI framework developed by Oslo-based Qt Software. Unique in its class, Qt is distributed under a dual license that permits both open-source and commercialapplication developments. It is thus not a surprise that Qt serves as the basis of many prominent software, from KDE - aleading graphical desktop environment for Linux - to high-profile end-user applications such as Opera, Skype, Google Earthand many others.

Although originally designed as a toolkit for desktop applications, Qt has been ported to various mobile operating systems.As of now, Qt is also available for Embedded Linux, Windows CE/Windows Mobile, and S60, among others. The main targetof Qt is C++. However, there is also a binding which allows seamless integration with the Java-based development model.

Qt offers a rich set of classes required to build any modern desktop and mobile applications. There are a set of stan-dard widgets for GUI, look-and-feel styling and skinning, network classes, XML parsing module, advanced low-level andhigh-level painting system, high-performance canvas, internationalization support, unit-testing framework as well as a webrendering engine through WebKit.

This talk will highlight the advantages of using Qt for mobile application development, such as the write-once-compile-everywhere mantra, beautiful and blazing-fast graphics, rapid GUI designing and prototyping, multimedia support, applica-tion scripting, Web 2.0 integration, and many others related topics.

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