Qt-Maemo

Qt for Maemo

NEWS

What is Qt?

Qt (pronounced as the English word "cute") is a cross-platform application development framework.

It is produced by Nokia's Qt Development Frameworks division, which came into being after Nokia's acquisition of the Norwegian company Trolltech.

Qt uses standard C++, but makes extensive use of the C pre-processor to enrich the language. Qt can also be used in several other programming languages via language bindings.

Distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (among others), Qt is free and open source software.

Maemo Qt main features

Hildon Style
Hildon Input Method
Optimizations
Hildon specific widget
- partial support in Qt 4.5
- Qt 4.6 will have full support

Supported Maemo devices

Nokia N800/N810 (OS2008/Maemo4.1/Diablo
Nokia N900 (OS2009/Maemo5/Fremantle)

Installing Qt

N8x0

Supported Maemo version: 4.1 (Diablo)
Latest stable packages are into extras repository:
deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras/ diablo free non-free
Testing packages are in extras-devel
deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/ diablo free non-free
N900

Supported Maemo version: 5 (Fremantle)
Qt core packages (qtcore, xml...) are pre-installed into the device. Rest of packages (GUI, webkit...) are in the Application repository (enabled by default in every device).
They are downloaded automatically when user install application packages that depends from those.
OVI store can host Maemo Qt Applications as well as other official Maemo repositories.

Current Maemo Qt packages are based on Qt 4.5.

Qt 4.6 is still underdevelopment. It's in extras-devel;
deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/ fremantle free non-free