Maemo Weekly News: 6 December 2010
Using Maemo Hildon UI elements in Qt Quick
Qt Quick's primary language, QML, provides a new rapid development methodology for Maemo, MeeGo and Symbian. However, it's yet to get a core set of UI components. Qt Quick Components is the official answer; but is currently under development. There's also the community-developed Colibri; but there's now a third option: using the current theme's own elements to provide widgets which match the look & feel of the rest of the system. Thomas Perl explains,
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This QML demo uses the current theme graphics of Hildon and provides QML components that can be used just like their Hildon counterparts, but inside QML UIs. This is not a complete library, just a test of what could be possible in case anyone wants to step up and create and maintain a Hildon library of QML components.
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A video of Thomas's experiments is available, and the source code is in Gitorious for further collaboration. Later in the issue, there are photos of the same code; with a Hildon theme; running on the Nokia N8 (a Symbian phone).
In this edition...- Front Page
- Using Maemo Hildon UI elements in Qt Quick
- Applications
- Development
- QML tutorials
- How QML's Scene Graph will get silky, velvety smooth animations
- Hildon-esque QML on Nokia N8
- Announcements
- RadioTimeToGo: Internet radio directory and playback
- Bluetooth/USB mouse support on N900
- First beta of PySide (Python for Qt) released, with Qt Quick support
- RectBlock - Web Runtime-based game
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