Necessitas, the project to get Qt working on the Android platform has announced its third alpha release!
Alpha 3 brings the project closer to releasing their first beta, which will guarantee ongoing API/ABI compatibility. Thus, allowing application developers to rely on a stable API/ABI from Beta 1 onwards. The Necessitas team plans to release their first beta SDK by the end of this year.
Alpha 3 release brings lots of exciting features:
Qt framework:- OpenGL Support
- Java part redesign
- QAtomic implementation
- Seamless Android assets support
- Sync with upstream Qt 4.8.0-rc1
- Prepare the package for android market publishing
- Sync with QtCreator 2.3.1
- Sync with QtWebkit 2.2.0
- It seems that the massive memory leak form 2.1.x was fixed
- Sync with Qt framework changes
- Linaro toolchain based on GCC 4.6.x (it is experimental)
- Android-4+ (ARMv5 & raster only) SDK
- Android-5+ (ARMv5 & ARMv7, raster & OpenGL) SDKs
- Can provide specific CPU extensions libraries, this feature allows us to provide not only platform specific libs (armv5, armv6, armv7, x86, etc.) but also libs for specific CPU extensions
- Sync with Qt framework changes
A Call for Assistance
To help meet their goals, the Necessitas team is calling out for assistance. From their message:
"Most of all, we need your help to make it happen, so please:
- help us to write documentations, FAQ, and to update and maintain project web pages.
- help us to answer peoples questions on android-qt mailing list, doing this you are helping us more than you can imagine.
- report any issues you find using http://code.google.com/p/android-lighthousehttps://commit-digest.kde.org/issues/list, or https://sourceforge.net/p/necessitas/tickets/
- help us to check and fix the opened issues.
- help us to implement the remaining features
http://community.kde.org/Necessitas/TODO,
http://community.kde.org/Necessitas/Schedules/alpha4"
Minimal hard coding expertise required, however, people with Qt smartphone experience are particularly needed. Please come forth and help out!