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Update: Developing for the Symbian Platform with Qt 4.6 Release Candidate

17 November, 2009 – Nokia today made available a Release Candidate of Qt 4.6: the upcoming new version of its cross-platform application and UI framework, which includes the port to the Symbian platform with integration for the S60 framework.*  The Release Candidate provides a final chance to preview and give feedback on Qt 4.6 before final launch later in Q4 2009.

*Note that the Qt for Symbian port was previously known as "Qt for S60".

Qt on the Symbian Platform

Our vision is to have Qt Everywhere and to enable you to create advanced applications with innovative user experiences while getting to market quickly. With the Qt port to Symbian, we are broadening our embedded offering. Qt allows you to code once and deploy across major device and desktop operating systems.

  • Target over 80 million devices with Qt on Symbian
  • Deploy your Qt for Symbian applications to Windows CE and embedded Linux
  • Port your Qt for Symbian mobile applications to the desktop on Windows, Mac and Unix/Linux (X11)

Download the Release Candidate

What you can expect from the Qt 4.6.0 Release Candidate for the Symbian platform:
  • Easy to use installer with pre-built binaries
  • Well tested with S60 3.1, 3.2 and 5.0
  • Qt 4.6 modules: QtCore, QtGui, QtNetwork, QtScript, QtSql, QtSvg, QtWebKit, QtXml, QtTest and Phonon with MMF backend.

Download: Binary .exe  (168 MB)

Download: Source .zip  (172 MB)

Watch Qt 4.6 running on Samsung i8910 and Nokia 5800 Symbian S60 devices.

If you want to try out these demos on your own Symbian 60 phone, open your phone browser and go to: qt.nokia.com/phonedemos.

  • More videos and blogs can be found on Qt Labs
 

You can watch other videos in our Qt Studios channel on YouTube. Check out the Qt on Symbian playlist, too.

Check out the Mobility Project which is developing new Qt APIs for mobile development.

Symbian developer, but new to Qt?

Qt is a cross-platform application framework. Using Qt, you can write applications once and deploy them across many desktop and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code.


We recommend that you become familiar with Qt by first evaluating it prior to using the Release Candidate. 

Download Qt

Getting Started

This quick start video describes how to create your first widget based application for Symbian with Qt.
To learn how to install Qt into a Symbian development environment please read the snapshot documentation for Qt 4.6.  For more technical details go here.

How to Provide Feedback

All feedback from the Qt user community is highly valued, and extensive testing of Qt on Symbian is encouraged. To collect this feedback, we have set up a special mailing list. The address of the mailing list is:

  • qts60-feedback@trolltech.com

Please join the mailing list to provide technology feedback, bug reports, suggestions or comments by sending a mail with the subject set as "subscribe" to:

  • qts60-feedback-request@trolltech.com

Contributing Code

The Qt public repository is located at:

This means you can follow the work, commit by commit and contribute to Qt development by creating merge requests. Guidelines for contributing code can be found here:

 

Release Status

As with any technology preview, please note that the software contains early pre-release code that is not at the level of performance and compatibility of a final product offering.

The full release of Qt 4.6 is scheduled for Q4 2009.

Licensing

Pre-release versions of Qt are available under a special commerical technology preview license and GNU LGPL version 2.1.

 

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