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Qt Strategy & Roadmap

13. November 2012Lars Knoll

Qt Chief MaintainerCTO, Digia Qt

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Qt 5.0 Beta 2released

today

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Strategy

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Support our user base

onDesktop PCs

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Embedded devicesrequire User Interfaces

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The framework of

choicefor embedded UIs

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The world isconnected

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Qt Applications can be

connected

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Time to market matters

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Create best in class Tooling Solutions

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Two Smartphonessold for every

PC

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One tablet

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The worlds leading

Cross PlatformFramework

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Qt Project & Community

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25.000 commits450 different committers

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Whats in Qt 5?

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Compatible with Qt 4

99% Source compatible

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Widgets fully supported

On all desktop platforms

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Modular architecture

Only include the modules you need

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SDK

PlatformsLinux

Wayland

X11

Windows

MacOSX

Qt Essentials

Tools Qt Add-Ons

BB10

Android

iOS

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Qt CoreQt NetworkQt GuiQt Widgets

Qt SqlQt QmlQt QuickQt Multimedia

Qt Webkit

Essentials

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Fully supported

Qt Concurrent Qt Print Support Qt DBus

Qt Testlib

Qt Xml Patterns Qt ActiveQt Qt Help Qt Graphical Effects Qt Declarative (Quick 1)

Supported but deprecated

Qt OpenGL Qt Xml Qt Svg

Qt Script & Script Tools

Add-on modules

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Qt Platform Abstraction

Used for all ports

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New Graphics Architecture

Optimal use of your GPU

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C++11 SupportEnabled on compilers that support it

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Signals/SlotsNew template based connect mechanism

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Unicode throughout

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Qt Core & Qt Network JSON support Mimetype support QStandardPaths QRegularExpression based on PCRE

QDnsLookup Improved support for IPV6 Improved SSL handling

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Qt Gui QWidget based classes moved to Qt Widgets Window system integration and graphics Integrated and greatly improved OpenGL support QOpenGLPaintDevice

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Qt QML & Qt Quick brand new, enhanced QML engine Improvements to the type system Improvements to Import and module handling Drawing based on an Open GL scene graph Extremely fast, fully scalable text

MultiPointTouchArea Particle system Many, many other improvements

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Qt Multimedia New essential moduleAudio and Video playback and recording Streaming Camera support Uses native system API as backend

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Qt WebKit Up to date WebKit Latest HTML5 features WebKit 2 process separation for Qt Quick

Better stability Does not block the UI

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and the remaining pieces Qt Graphical effects

Advanced graphical effects for your Qt Quick based application Qt XmlPatterns, Qt Script, Qt Sql, Qt Svg,

Fully compatible with Qt 4.8 Qt Declarative

The Qt Quick 1 engine, also fully compatible with Qt 4.8 Many other Add-ons available

Qt 3D, Qt Location, Qt Sensors, Qt Wayland, Qt Serial Port, Not part of the official Qt 5.0 release May get added in future releases

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Qt 5.0 release

anticipatedby end of the year

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The road ahead

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Time based releasesTwo feature releases per year

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39 Coming 2013 2011 Digia Plc

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40 Coming 2013 2011 Digia Plc

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Under investigation 2011 Digia Plc

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Device development

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Qt Quick Componentsfor Desktop & Touch

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Before summer

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Tooling improvements

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Incremental

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Fully support more

Add-ons

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The future looks bright