Update puts Qt onto your Nokia N900

Update puts Qt onto your Nokia N900

Nokia N900 holders rejoice – your device, which was already very nifty and useful, now has an important system update that, among other improvements, includes the Qt libraries. When you install it you are installing Qt onto your device.

The PR 1.2 firmware update for the Nokia N900 was released this week; you can find out more about it at maemo.org .

What does this mean? It means that Qt apps can be installed and run on your device, which is a great thing. All Nokia N900s that ship with this new firmware will have Qt inside them by default.

Consider this: when the new Nokia N8 lands in a few months, Nokia’s top two devices – the flagship Symbian device and the flagship Maemo/MeeGo device – will both have Qt inside them by default.

So get out there and download that update N900 owners. I’ve done it (FYI those not on fixed-price data plans might want to use wifi for this) and my N900 has never been happier or Qt-er.

Some useful information for developing with Qt for Maemo 5

Some useful information:

• A good starting point for developing with Qt for Maemo 5 is the Nokia Qt SDK.
• Here’s the Qt for Maemo 5 documentation, suggested reads are the Maemo 5 introduction page and the Maemo 5 platform notes.
• The Qt for Maemo 5 examples can be found in Maemo’s extras-devel repository. The package is called libqt4-examples-maemo5 and installs to /usr/examples/maemo5. Documentation is here.
• The Qt 4 wiki contains useful information about building, debugging, running and deploying Qt apps.
• Here’s the git repository, contributions are welcome

PR 1.2 firmware for the N900 released with Qt 4.6.2

The PR 1.2 firmware for the N900 is finally released with Qt 4.6.2 shipping by default (see maemo.org for all PR 1.2 related info). This means that all the apps that up until now only ran in the SDK can finally be deployed to real devices.

Source: PR 1.2 firmware for the N900 released with Qt 4.6.2

Betas of Qt 4.7 and Qt Creator 2.0 Now Available

Nokia released beta versions of Qt 4.7 and Qt Creator 2.0. Both are now available for download, testing and feedback from the official Qt website qt.nokia.com.

A major feature in the Qt 4.7 beta release is a beta version of Qt Quick, the new high-level UI technology that enables developers and designers to work together to create animated, touch enabled UIs.

In addition, the Qt 4.7 beta includes an update of the Qt WebKit Integration and further progress on planned performance and quality process improvements for Qt.

Source: Betas of Qt 4.7 and Qt Creator 2.0 Now Available