Hi, > in the company there's Qt Vs phonegap (and other web-runtime). > I'm obviously biased. What are the objective points in favor of Qt? I can > not say anything about the Windows and Android we are not yet stable.
The native binary that you compile when using Qt will give much better performance than the VM - especially with Android 2.1 and earlier. Given that the web view will also be natively compiled for the user's hardware, the performance differences may be a non-issue. It depends a lot on what your app does. However, you must expect binary compatibility problems in the future. Intel is looking to grab a share of the market, and remember also that MIPS got themselves Android certified before Intel did. There may also be edge cases of incompatibility between the various vendors' ARM-based solutions. You'd have a significantly increased amount of testing to do, across the various hardware types. A HTML/JS based solution sidesteps that problem. An Android user is unlikely to know details about which CPU they have, and I have not yet seen a clean solution for making a single apk which supports multiple architectures... but I haven't been looking very hard either! Perhaps somebody else on this list has looked into it. How much control do you have over your target platform? Personally, I would not recommend Qt for creating Android apps for the general public, purely because of the testing and deployment issues. This is not the case for iOS; don't know about WinPhone hardware. If you are looking to target Android, WinPhone and iOS with a cross-platform app, and if the app's functionality is possible with HTML/JS, I would suggest looking at PhoneGap with jQuery Mobile. I should also mention that there is a port of PhoneGap to the 'Qt platform' called 'callback-qt'. It's a little lacking in plugins, but it does work. This means you can have your PhoneGap app run on Windows, Linux etc - which may help development. > I do not like losing... If you let your personal preference trump your objectivity, I would say you had already lost! What is the best solution for the person who has to use the software you produce? Steve
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