[BogDan]

Hi Willy,



> 
> From my point of view, the most important stuff is a seamless integration of Qt 
> and Android. Having an integrated development environment is nice (and quite 
> necessary indeed!) but i don't mind glitches in the IDE.

Having an integrated development environment is a MUST this days ! Before I release the IDE and the SDK Necessitas project had only a few users (less than 50), today it has 7000+ users !
So the IDE and the SDK is one of our top priorities !

> I care more about 
> Android look&feel, application resuming properly from background running, 
> assets and files access, proper location and multimedia interface, proper Java 
> intercomunication and so on. This is the stuff which will determine the success 
> of Necessitas, because people will use it or not if thay can easily port their 
> already existing apps.
> 

 * Android look&feel. I have good news on this topic, I managed to extract the needed informations form Android O.S. to draw a few controls (e.g. Button, RadioButton, CheckBox, LineEdit, etc.), soon I'll push the work into Ministro and android-qt repositories. 

 * Application resuming properly from background it should be fixed by latest alpha release [1]
 * Assets and files access, AFAIK there is no major problems here.
 * Mobility (contacts, location,  multimedia, etc.) are not very polished, so if you want to look into it it will be great.

>
> I don't see anybody starting a new app for Android in Necessitas at the 
> moment, just porting existing ones. This means, ideally all of Qt stuff and 
> QtMobility stuff has to work, possibly better than on Symbian&MeeGo (for 
> example, MeeGo dropped support for QWidget, as anybody trying to force portrait 
> mode on that platform discovered).
> 

There is no plan to drop the support for QWidget in Necessitas !

>
> I would be interested in working on some QtMobility stuff, like 
> QtLocation&satellites, since my app that's what's needed. Just 
> don't have time at the moment since i have a big major release coming up 
> before summer.
> 

  I'm planning to ship latest alpha release immediately after  look&feel and menus supports implementations are done, I hope mid April. The beta release, which can be safely used by anyone to deploy qt apps on Android Market, will come 2-4 weeks after this release, if no major issues will appear.

>
> While i do prefer to use necessitas under windows, because due to Symbian 
> support it's my main platform, i don't really care too much and i could 
> switch to Linux if needed. Again, since i think most of develoèpest will switch 
> from Symbian Windows should be well taken care of. At the moment all my 
> experiments on Necessitas have been with Windows, and i have been quite pleased. 
> I don't care for the laest release of Qt Creator tough.
> 

 I have no experience with Necessitas under windows, so I can't help you on this area !
I do all development under Linux.

Cheers,
BogDan.

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/android-qt/browse_thread/thread/350091b33f76a22b


> Il 13.03.2012 21:42 Ray Donnelly ha scritto:
>>  This discussion was happening on Qt Android list but this is a better
>>  place for it.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/android-qt/browse_thread/thread/454108ac645cd62e
>> 
>>  Willy Gardiol asked:
>> 
>>>  Meanwhile, how many people are actually coding for Necessitas apart 
> from BogoDan and few others? More should join i guess :) or i am just hoping :)
>> 
>>  Well there's (at a guess) about 6 people who do bits and pieces.
>>  BogDan will know the exact details.
>> 
>>  I just handle Mac and Windows builds and our own version of the ndk
>>  toolchains, I'd like to help out more on the Qt side but I'm 
> basically
>>  a novice with Qt still, plus, I've fallen behind on ndk work anyway.
>> 
>>  Marco Bernasocchi asked:
>> 
>>>  Same here... what are the aread that need most help?
>> 
>>  Check community.kde.org/Necessitas for the latest todo.
>> 
>>  On the build side of things, there's things like qbs
>>  (http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2012/02/15/introducing-qbs/) to investigate
>>  - building Qt Android for 3 variants takes a long time, qbs should
>>  help, and/or using something like Suse OBS to handle Mac and Windows
>>  builds. I've been working on making good Mac cross compilers that run
>>  on Linux on and off this last while and they're very nearly ready, so
>>  investigating getting Qt to cross compile on Liux targeting Mac is on
>>  my list (cross compiling for MinGW is, AFAIK already possible). Having
>>  a continuous integration system that automatically builds packages
>>  when certain git repo branches are pushed to would be ideal. I think.
>> 
>>  There's also tasks like updating to the latest Qt Creator, we've
>>  fallen behind there a good bit.
>> 
>>  BogDan will know what the latest is with the Qt Android stuff.
>> 
>>  Cheers,
>> 
>>  Ray.
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