Cross platform tool brings Android and cloud apps to embedded
By adding support for Android and iOS, Qt 5.2 is positioned as the only cross-platform development framework for UI and non-UI creation to enable intuitive and highly performing platform-independent software applications no matter the target device or screen size. Under the Qt Enterprise offering, Qt 5.2 opens the door to increased mobility of enterprise applications and paves the way for enterprise-ready multi-screen applications that users can experience from desktop to smartphone to automobile to TV.
In addition to Android and iOS support, Qt 5.2 also introduces Qt Cloud Services, developed to address the cloud computing needs of enterprises and developers across the whole lifecycle of connected and data-driven applications. Qt Cloud Services’ first offering is data storage and user management also known as Enginio but Qt Cloud Services with Qt 5.2 offers everything needed to develop, test, deploy and manage applications with one Qt.
Used by over 500,000 developers worldwide, Qt was formerly owned by Nokia and in 2012 was acquired by Digia of Helsinki for product development and commercial and open source licensing.
Qt 5.2 also includes a new JavaScript engine and Scene Graph renderer that further improve the functionality and performance of Qt Quick QML, a declarative UI development language, optimal for the creation of intuitive, highly-intensified graphics on desktop, embedded and mobile platforms. New modules for Positioning, Bluetooth and NFC have also been introduced, as well as a bundled-in Qt Creator 3.0, the Qt integrated development environment (IDE).
Qt provides true cross-platform capabilities across all the most widely used and relevant desktop, embedded and mobile platforms, supporting 15 leading operating systems. For the enterprise, this greatly simplifies the process of mobilizing applications throughout the organization. The implementation of programmes such as bring your own device (BYOD) will benefit not just from streamlined development but also reduced maintenance effort due to the use of one technology across all platforms. With Qt, multi-screen development to enable BYOD for all industries means that an application is developed once and then deployed with the same – or a customized and scalable – UI layout to multiple device types.
Extensive enhancements to Qt’s desktop support are incorporated in Qt 5.2. These include the addition of Qt Windows Extras and Qt Mac Extras, which allow integration with platform specific functionality on Windows and Mac OS X respectively, and improvements to Qt Quick Controls and Qt Widgets.
Qt supports all major desktop operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, embedded operating systems such as embedded Linux, embedded Android, Windows Embedded as well as the most widely deployed real-time operating systems for embedded devices – VxWorks, QNX Neutrino and INTEGRITY – and popular mobile OSes including Android, iOS, BlackBerry, and SailFish.
The commercial version of Qt 5.2, Qt Enterprise with extensive additional features such as Charts, Advanced Visualization and Enterprise Tooling, can be downloaded as a 30-day free trial from https://qt.digia.com. The release of Qt 5.2 also introduces the availability of the Qt Mobile edition, an all-in-one high-calibre mobile app development package for cross-platform native Android & iOS creation.
The Qt open source version can be downloaded from qt-project.org and for more information see qt.digia.com/qt52
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