From the monthly archives:

March 2011

Pico Brothers to talk Qt mobile success this afternoon

by Carol Røsland on March 31, 2011

This week, the developers at Pico Brothers reached the impressive milestone of 20 million downloads in Ovi Store. Led by Niklas Karlström, Kristian Engsjö and their dog Viggo, Pico Brothers have created more than 65 apps that are available in Nokia’s Ovi Store, from entertainment and utilities to sports. We’ve been excited to see their [...]

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Introducing our new community sponsorship program

by Knut Yrvin on March 29, 2011

Qt Development Frameworks has sponsored community projects since Trolltech was founded 15 years ago. The biggest contribution we make to the community is Qt itself –  with open source access – starting with version 0.9 in 1995. Much has happened since that humble start. Now we sponsor a lot of different community projects, from code [...]

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Qt Creator 2.2 Beta released

by David Stone on March 24, 2011

The latest version of Qt Creator, Qt Creator 2.2, made it to beta release today. To read all about it, Eike has the scoop over on Qt Labs. Here is the short version of the story. Qt Creator 2.2 contains some big (beta) fixes to Qt Creator 2.1, and also some very useful new features [...]

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Some excellent news for French speaking Qt developers came to us this week. The team at Developpez has completed another large Qt documentation translation project.

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The following post is written by a guest blogger: Digia Plc. Senior Vice President, Mr. Harri Paani Digia’s plan to acquire the Qt Commercial licensing and service business from Nokia has brought up some justifiable questions about the future of Qt from various stakeholders. While we understand the need for us to quickly participate the [...]

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Qt and Digia, facts and fiction

by Sebastian Nystrom on March 14, 2011

The planned transaction between Nokia and Digia is an important one for both companies, which will have positive outcomes for Qt and the Qt community, including commercial customers and our employees. It goes without saying that we firmly believe in the merits of this move, however it seems that both companies have had a hard [...]

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Post image for India’s first KDE conference

India’s first KDE conference

by Knut Yrvin on March 14, 2011

More than 300 KDE developers and students participated in conf.kde.in – the first dedicated KDE conference ever held in India- in Bangalore from March 9 to 13. The participants learned about contributing to KDE, programming with Qt Quick and lots of other aspects of developing free software. conf.kde.in Group Photo There has been a substantial [...]

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From Qt SDK 1.1 Beta to an app in just a day

by Carol Røsland on March 9, 2011

A tweet came across my screen last week which immediately raised my curiosity. It was a father tweeting about his day home with his sick son who spent the day together designing and developing his very own Qt Quick app, the DoodleDrive game. I immediately picked up the phone to talk to this guy to [...]

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Nokia and Digia working together to grow the Qt community

by Sebastian Nystrom on March 7, 2011

Following last week’s releases of Qt Quick, the new Qt SDK 1.1 beta and Qt 4.7.2, the Qt community will continue to benefit for years to come from further Nokia investment in Qt, primarily focused on areas such as Qt Quick, Qt WebKit and HTLM5 in addition to the ongoing work of improving performance and [...]

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PySide reaches final 1.0.0 release

by David Stone on March 4, 2011

We know a lot of you are interested in PySide, the set of LGPL-licensed bindings that tie Python to Qt. We know because PySide is the number one wiki topic on Qt Developer Network. The news today for Qt + Python enthusiasts is good – PySide, the LGPL set of bindings for Qt and Python [...]

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A Whole Lot of Qt @ Embedded World 2011

by Katherine Barrios on March 4, 2011

There was an explosion of visitors at the Qt booth at Embedded World 2011. I was meant to write this blog a couple of days ago, but I was perturbed by the crazy traffic at our booth. Don’t get me wrong – we loved the traffic. It was awesome to see so many developers’ faces [...]

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With the release of Qt Creator 2.1, we have now passed the official milestone needed to mark the official release of Qt Quick! Qt Quick (Qt UI Creation Kit) introduces exciting new functionality into Qt that lets developers and UI designers work together to rapidly create beautiful, fluid UIs and applications for any Qt platform, [...]

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Qt SDK 1.1 beta has been released

by Juha Latvala on March 1, 2011

I am pleased to announce that the Qt SDK 1.1 beta has been launched. While the SDK may be a beta, Qt 4.7.2 and Qt Creator 2.1 releases within it are final, meaning we have a complete package of the Qt Quick offering. Qt Quick is our fantastic new tool for creating lightweight, dynamic UIs [...]

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