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Meet Qt Ari Salmi

IT2014 Presentation

November 2014

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The Qt Company: A Brief Introduction

•  The Qt Company is a subsidiary of Digia Plc (listed on Nasdaq OMX Helsinki), responsible for all Qt operations globally

•  Digia Plc acquired the Qt business in September 2012 from Nokia (commercial licensing acquired in March 2011)

•  Worldwide leading Qt application and UI development, testing and UX design services and consulting company with 12 international locations

•  10+ years of Qt experience •  200 in-house Qt experts •  Trusted by over 5,000 customers worldwide

Berlin

Shanghai

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The Leading C++ Cross-Platform Framework

•  Used by approximately 800,000 developers in 70+ industries •  Proved & tested technology – since 1994

Cross-Platform Class Library

Integrated development tools

Cross platform IDE, Qt Creator

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Qt is Used for …

Application development for desktop & mobile

User interface development in device creation

Software development kits (SDK) for 3rd parties

Build your developer ecosystem with Qt

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Qt is Used Everywhere

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5000+ Companies from 70+ industries use Qt From Desktop Applications to Embedded & Mobile Devices

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Qt Powers Industry Leading Software on Desktop Wolfram Mathematica Skype on Linux Autodesk Maya VLC Media Player

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My Software Service

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Target All Your End Users with One Technology

Mobile: Android, iOS, Windows Phone, WindowsRT, BlackBerry 10, Sailfish

Desktop: Windows, Linux,

Mac, Solaris, Enterprise UNIX

Embedded: Embedded Linux,

Embedded Android, Windows

Embedded, QNX, VxWorks,

INTEGRITY

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Where There’s a User Interface, there’s Qt

Automotive IVI Network Analyzers Medical Devices Home Automation

Digital Photo Frames

Refrigerators & Coffee Machines

Set Top Boxes Industrial/UMPCS

And many, many more ...

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Qt UI Offering – Choose the Best of All Worlds

Qt Quick

C++ on the back, declarative UI design (QML) in the front for beautiful, modern touch-based User Experiences

Web / Hybrid

Use HTML5 for dynamic web documents, Qt Quick for native interaction.

Qt Widgets

Customizable C++ UI controls for traditional desktop look-and-feel. Also good for more static embedded UIs for more limited devices / operating systems

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Qt for Application Development Code Once. Deploy Everywhere.

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Power of Cross-Platform Native Qt/C++

Stunningly Fluent Modern User Interfaces, written with QML. Ideal for rapid UI prototyping Q

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Declarative UI Design

Imperative Logic

Developer

Rapid Workflow with Qt Quick

Designer

+ Direct Hardware Access

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Qt Applications Are Native Applications

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Qt / Windows •  Windows GDI •  Windows Kernel •  PC HW

Qt / OSX •  Cocoa •  Mac Kernel •  MacHW

Qt / Embedded •  X11, Wayland, EGLFS •  Linux Kernel •  Embedded HW

Qt / Android •  Android NDK •  Android Kernel, •  Android HW

Qt Application

QtGui, QtCore, QtNetwork, QtSql, QtMultimedia, etc.

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Add-ons

Qt Developer Offering, Cross-Platform APIs

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QML Controls Layouts Styles Q

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Concurrency

SVG

Serial Port

Printing

OpenGL

Positioning

Bluetooth

NFC Platform Extras

Sensors XML

Image formats

Scripting

GUI

non-GUI

Essentials

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Qtopia Windows Mobile

Symbian MeeGo

Android iOS

Windows Phone / WinRT Sailfish OS

BlackBerry 10 Ubuntu touch

Nokia X Tizen

Trolltech Nokia

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Nokia The Qt Company + community

Opportunities with Qt on Mobile

+ Qt Cloud Services

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Use Case: MuseScore

MuseScore Player for mobile devices MuseScore for Desktop

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Few more use cases from Qt for mobile

Shorter Time-to-Market with Integrated Tooling and

Value-Add Components

Qt Creator

Immediate Prototyping with a Pre-Built Software Stack,

Boot to Qt

QtCloudServices.com

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Qt as Technology Platform

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What is Qt?

Desktop to Desktop

Amazing Embedded GUIs

Targeting the Fragmented Mobile Markets

Technology Platform for own SDKs and ecosystems

Ecosystem of 800 000 Developers

Platform Independent Multi-Screen Software

Internet of Things

Bring Your Own Device

Powerful Cross-Platform C++ APIs

Productivity Enhancing Tools

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Hands On live coding – “Best Tic Tac Toe Ever”.

•  Create a tic-tac-toe game on the fly by using •  Qt Creator Designer – drag and drop

•  Qml & javascript

•  Demo example on the desktop screen

•  Deploy to Android Nexus7, Apple ipad and Windows8.1 phone

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Qt is All This.

Qt is What You Make of It.

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Thank You! www.qt.io

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www.qt.io See you there!