Qt5 on subsurface-android

[Robert Helling]

On 25.03.2014, at 06:46, Venkatesh Shukla IIT BHU <venkatesh.shukla.eee11 at iitbhu.ac.in> wrote:

Hi,

> Subsurface on the desktop is purely C/C++ based and uses Qt5.

No, all except the very brave currently use Qt4.

> For its android port, is it necessary to employ Qt5 for user interface building?
> On one hand, it gives the advantage of having just one code base and run it on both the desktop and mobile environments.
> On the other hand, the user interface is ugly and functionally useless. In the present condition, it cannot be used for mobile devices. Having a single code base for both environments fail as the UI elements would need to be changed to adapt to mobile environment. Also, it may inhibit other android developers ,who are comfortable in Java and xml, and don't know Qt. 
> So, wouldn't it be more prudent to have the following approach?
> 
> 1. Have the UI made in Java and Xml. As far as I know, all the UI elements used in present Subsurface can be migrated to android.

I think this is unlikely to happen. Today, it has been pretty much one year that we started moving from gtk to Qt. This was one year with a lot of hard work (in particular by Tomaz) and now we can say we have about reached feature parity. The whole point of using Qt is that you can code for several platforms at once without being too far from the native look and feel. This is not what I would say about Java on the desktop.

But as always: Patches welcome.

Best
Robert



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