Qt for Tizen Gets Feature Boost

Second alpha release of Qt for Tizen 1.0 concludes 30 days of intensive development of the mobile-optimized, cross-platform application and user interface development framework. We have a number of thrilling news to share with you!

Following the approach introduced in the first alpha each release of Qt for Tizen delivers two products, Qt framework for Tizen and Qt Tizen Integration. We have upgraded the Qt framework to benefit from the newest Qt mobile technologies. A number of new GUI Qt Quick controls have been added, each compliant with the Tizen guidelines, without sacrificing the legendary comfort of development and portability of Qt code to other platforms. Finally, applications built with Qt properly run on actual Tizen smartphones

Qt for Tizen Merchandise

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There's even something stylish for geek girls :)

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PS2: When making any composition like these, please read these usage guidelines for Qt and for Tizen.

Qt 5.1 Cinematic Experience Demo on Tizen Devices

Qt Cinematic Experience is a famous QML application that demonstrates the power of Qt 5 and the new additions in Qt Quick 2.0. The app uses Qt Quick particles, sprites, path animations, shader effects and other cute graphical effects.

Qt Cinematic Experience demo app is running successfully on two different Tizen reference devices: RD-210 and RD-PQ. Both devices have been updated by flashing Tizen 2.1 (Nectarine) and the QML app is powered by Qt 5.1 for Tizen. Hardware acceleration has been enabled on the devices by installing Mali DDK for Tizen 2.1. The frame rate is approximately 60 frames per second on both devices.

Qt for Tizen on TDC'13

The second annual Tizen Developer Conference was held in San Francisco from 22 May to 24 May 2013. The conference engaged a worldwide audience and was the perfect place to demonstrate the progress of the community-driven port of Qt for Tizen.

After hours of hard work Tomasz and the other Qt contributors were able to cross compile Qt 5.1 for Tizen ARM devices just on time for the beginning of the conference. Several QML example applications including the famous Qt Cinematic Experience demo were presented on Samsung reference device RD-PQ with Tizen 2.1 Nectarine. The demo applications are working smooth although the port is in very early stage of development.

Qt Launches on Tizen with Standard Look and Feel

Ten days after we said Hello to the world, we're happy to announce Qt for Tizen 1.0 Alpha 1 release containing a mobile-optimized, cross-platform application and user interface development framework.

Qt for Tizen is a common name for two products:

Qt framework for Tizen, currently based on Qt 5.1 beta, works with Tizen Emulator. Thanks to exceptional cross-platform nature of Qt most of the work was related to configuring and building the binaries. Qt Creator SDK can be already used for developing new applications and porting existing ones.

Qt Tizen Integration, now introducing basic set of native controls with default look and feel of Tizen mobile profile. All these controls are based on cross platform API of Qt Quick Controls Style introduced in Qt 5.1.