[maemo-developers] mobility examples with nokia qt sdk

[From: lorn.potter at nokia.com]

On 8/06/10 2:03 AM, "ext Andrea Grandi" <a.grandi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 7 June 2010 17:59, Daniil Ivanov <daniil.ivanov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What we don't have is the release 1.0 of qt mobility libraries for the madde
>>> so you can't compile applications that target the n900 and use qt mobility
>>> 1.0 on the qt sdk. It is a big pain - right now I have to write the code on
>>> the sdk, do some testing on the simulator with anything that is not maemo5
>>> specific and then compile on scratchbox, copy to the device and then run
>>> real tests.
>> 
>> I do all testing on real device, it gives more robust results and
>> actually saves time.
> 
> luckly me and Lorenzo have a real device to do our tests, but we still
> cannot compile our application for N900 using Nokia SDK :(
> 
> If I understand well we still need to:
> 
> 1) write code on Nokia SDK
> 2) compile code under Scratchbox

# 2 step will be optional and not recommended for new applications.

> 3) copy compiled code to N900

#3 step will be optional, as creator/nokia Qt sdk will help you do this
easily.
Set target, push ctrl-r

> 4) test code on N900
> 
> we'll never be able to do on-device debugging step-by-step nor on
> simulator, and this is so bad :\

On device debugging will be supported, and so will debugging in the
"simulator".

The Nokia Qt sdk is still beta quality. It will come with QtMobility and
will be able to use it for developing apps that use the mobility API's. No
need to compile mobility.



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Lorn Potter
Senior Software Engineer, Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks