Painting Strategy in MeeGo’s Virtual Keyboard

I’ve never been happy with the conclusion in the influential blog post “Qt Graphics and Performance — The Cost of Convenience” by Gunnar Sletta: If you want performance, downgrade QGraphicsView to a mere canvas with a single QGraphicsItem.

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How to make modern Mobile applications with Qt Quick components

What Ui toolkit I should use for mobile application development has been a top issue since Maemo5/Fremantle SDK alpha release. There were two choices available, GTK+/Hindon and Qt

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MaePadWeb 2.0: Take your MaePad anywhere (even on a N8)

The companion app to MaePad that has been announced some days ago is now available in Extras-Devel for your N900, with some nifty features: Fully edit the checklists in your database Native Maemo 5 look and feel in the browser (title bar, toolbar, lists, …) Dynamic themeing based on current Maemo theme Per-session password for some security (inspired by MAD Developer) This means that if you are using the NSeries theme, it looks like this , but if you are using Digital Nature, this is how it looks (and that should work for all themes). On your device, you will see a simple info window . Now, that’s bringing the Maemo 5 UI to your Desktop computer’s web browser

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Qt: Write once, #ifdef everywhere?

Despite what the title of this post might suggest, I really like Qt. But as a developer, I also know that “write once, run everywhere” isn’t realistic without writing some special-cased platform-specific code. Qt does take care of many platform-specific things, and I think it’s the closest you can get to “write once, run everywhere” right now

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Is designing UI simple with Qt?

I use Qt on my devices since my first LinuxPDA: Sharp Zaurus SL5000 on which I used OpenZaurus with OPIE as primary environment.

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Unofficial Qt Web Runtime tutorial 2: Menu API

If there is no API, Qt WRT is merely nothing but a naive web browser. Then what APIs are supported other than standard HTML and JavaScript now? You can first get a list of features already supported, or to be supported in the near future here

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QtWebKit goes Mobile

Repost of Jesus’ post , that I helped write.

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QtWebKit goes Mobile

Repost of Jesus’ post , that I helped write.

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SketchyAetch, gPodder/Qt and living in the present

After the very interesting Nokia Mobile Developers Forum in Hagenberg on Friday and Saturday (Petri Niemi did several interesting Qt introductory talks), I decided to play a bit with QGraphicsView again and this time try to come up with an app that actually does something: SketchyAetch ! Having not done much with C++ for several months, the GCC error messages (at least for C++) are still kind of cryptic.

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