Intel has the x86 Andoid problem fixed with binary translation. Your NDK
arguments are moot.
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From: Stephen Bryant <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Interest] qt vs web-runtime
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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