Summary of Qt for Android talks in Munich

[Espen Riskedal]

Slides and pictures (some showing Android related stuff here)
http://wp.me/pPoYq-cw

Audience Q&A (My answers, feel free to correct me):

Q: Can one create completely native Qt apps?
A: Yes, but this port has at the moment decided to stay with the Java
wrapper because of several reasons (needs Java bindings anyway for
some parts, and also older API level support)

Q: What about a commercial license?
A: There is no commercial license for Qt for Android at the moment

Q: How big is Qt?
A: For my example 16Mb, I think a "complete" version is around 20ish

Q: What will Ministro do when one application needs a newer version of
Qt than an already installed one?
A: This can't happen at the moment. There is _one_ Qt version that
Ministro servers (to normal end users), and for every app launch
Ministro checks if there is a newere version. This means Qt is always
updated to your latest version.

Q: What about internationalization?
A: I haven't tested it yet, but tr() and qstr() should work out of the
box as for other platforms

Q: Does Qt provide any special ways to deal with the different screen
resolutions on Android?
A: Not that I know of.

Audience comments:

Comment 1: There seems to be a big risk of potential regressions with
Qt (through Ministro updates)
I agreed this was true, but also explained how the setup with Ministro
config and stable/testing/unstable is supposed to work.

Comment 2: The audience in both sessions gave a spontaneous applaus
when seeing Qt Creator building, deploying and running Qt on an
Android phone :D

Comment 3: Thumbs up, lots of positive feedback.

The first session was more than full. The second one was 90% full.
Basically I believe around 200-300 more people now know about
Necessitas :D

Also I did see senyk show of the OpenGL plugin for Qt in another talk
(see pictures) and also a company e-gits showing of some demo on Qt
for Android/ Necessitas as well.

It is clear that the Qt community is really interested in this. One
even said to me (after having talked about Qt's potential to reach
Android, iOS and now BBX/QNX) that we rekindled his beliefe in Qt
everywhere for the mobile.

I did not have time to be at the Qt Contributor Day session on
Android, so someone else please summarize that one.

I also said that alpha3 would probably be available by end of next
week(?) and that at the moment there is no BIC promise with alpha2.

espen