Qt Technology Preview for Maemo developers
Nokia announces official Qt port to Maemo 5
.09 October 2009 --Espoo, Finland --Nokia today announced the creation of the official Qt port to Maemo 5 and published an initial Technology Preview release. This port to Maemo 5 means that developers can now use Qt to target the upcoming N900 device and also ensures that applications can be easily ported to all Qt’s supported platforms including the next Maemo 6 release as well as Symbian and Windows Mobile. More...
Qt on the Maemo 5 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 Maemo 5, we are further broadening our embedded offering. Qt allows you to code once and deploy across major device and desktop operating systems.
Learn more about Maemo on Nokia devices at Forum Nokia. |
Watch Qt running on the new Maemo 5 based Nokia N900.
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Download the Tech PreviewThe Qt for Maemo Technology Preview is available under a special technology preview license. This early unsupported pre-release, contains all Qt modules and features the same functionality as the Qt on X11 version. In addition to the plain X11 version, some Maemo specific features were added:
 Get the source now! The .deb packages are available here.Check out the Mobility Project which is developing new Qt APIs for mobile development. |
Contributing CodeThe Qt for Maemo 5 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:  |
How to Provide Feedback
All feedback from the Qt user community is highly valued, and extensive testing of Qt on Maemo is encouraged. To collect this feedback, we have set up a special mailing list. The address of the mailing list is:
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:
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Maemo 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 technology preview of the Maemo port. |
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. |
LicensingQt Technology Previews are available under a special commerical technology preview license and GNU LGPL version 2.1. |
