[maemo-developers] mobility examples with nokia qt sdk

[From: Daniil Ivanov]

Hi Lorn!

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:23 PM,  <lorn.potter at nokia.com> wrote:
> 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.

  Quite many things are not possible with Nokia Qt SDK, why it's will
be not recommended?

Thanks, Daniil.

>> 3) copy compiled code to N900
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> #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
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