Summer'12 Device Program/Qt 5 Mobile Projects
We are looking for brave & experienced developers willing to port or develop apps running on top of Qt 5 before its finally release. Currently Qt 5 alpha is released, the beta version is expected during June and the final in August/September.
The main motivations for this activity are mixture of:
- Helping testing Qt 5 itself and providing feedback while it's alpha/beta.
- Helping testing the Qt 5 libraries for the Nokia N9.
- Getting stories of real apps ported from Qt 4 to Qt 5. Trivial? Horrible? What are the pain points? And what about Qt Creator and the documentation available?
- Getting developers to play with the new toys: Qt Quick 2, textures, transitions, graphics / video effects, raw OpenGL ES stuff, post-Mobility APIs, the new Qt WebKit, JSON DB, ongoing R&D on PhoneGap own JQuery based experiments...
This is the same motivation we have for the QtonPi program, but for mobile development the N9 provides a touch display and many more sensors and hardware features that bare bones boards are missing.
How to apply
Developers with a good Qt development track must apply to that thread pointing to any of these sources:
- Your Qt 4 applications, all the better if they are ready for mobile e.g. with QML UI.
- Your maemo.org profile, Qt DevNet profile, Ohloh profile or anything showing who are you and what have you done in terms of development and community involvement.
Questions and feedback about the submissions are welcome in this forum thread.
Submissions
Add yourself at the end of the queue and follow this template:
- Project name, by Name Surname (nick) - Short description + other related links.
- CMake (cross compiling with Qt 5) by Stephen Kelly (steveire) - Qt maintainer, KDE developer and Qt based library developer.
- FirmaXML (QML desktop app for BDOC digital signatures using cryptographic hardware) by Antonio Araujo Brett (antonioaraujob) - Qt and information security developer with free and open source tools. Qt Ambassador.
- MagicTag (Anylize song wave and tag it with the right tag), by Tong Zhang (lovewilliam) - Experienced at qt development and embedded system. Had been contributed a lot of patches to the community. Qt Ambassador.