Porting Harmattan apps to Sailfish and NemoMobile

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Editor: GeneralAntilles

The Sailfish SDK was released a few weeks ago and developers have already been hard at work playing with it and getting their applications to run. thp has written up a guide about what's involved in porting Harmattan applications to Sailfish's Silica framework: As explained in the last blog post, gPodder is already running on Sailfish Silica Components. Of course, this has only been possible because Silica is quite similar in API design to Harmattan Qt Components [...]. But of course porting "from" Harmattan "to" Sailfish with no way back would be kind of annoying - either Harmattan gets dropped, or somebody has to maintain two codebases, something I'd rather avoid. So, just like in "good old" Maemo 4 and Maemo 5 times, the goal here is to convert a Harmattan-only codebase to Harmattan-and-Sailfish, so that both can be maintained in the same codebase and improvements to Harmattan benefit the Sailfish port and vice versa.

Qt for iOS preview

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Editor: Jaffa

With the sale of Qt to Digia, the project is able to better embrace other mobile platforms. Qt 5 has seen the better provision of Qt for Android, and it's now time for a preview of the native, non-jailbroken, easy-to-use delivery of Qt for Apple's iOS. From the blog post: We are very excited to be able to bring Qt to a new platform. Qt for iOS is planned to be a supported part of Qt 5.2, scheduled for release late 2013. The scope of that release is not completely determined: available resources, platform/app store restrictions and Qt legacy set constraints on the project. This blog outlines the current plan.

A Mac, running XCode, is still required to build the project - something which is unnecessary with Xamarin's .NET support for iOS (which can instead contact a remote build server).