Qt Developer Days. The other sell-out conference last week

Published by Ian Delaney on November 2, 2011

MUNICH, Germany – Did you hear about the massive Nokia event last week? Nope – not Nokia World, but actually this year’s Qt Developer Days over in Germany, which took place on the 24-26 October.

Qt is the tool developers use to create apps for Symbian and the Nokia N9, and it has an important behind-the-scenes job at Nokia – it helps ensure app-happy Nokia smartphone users have lots of amazing, high performance apps to choose from.

Almost 1000 developers paid their own way to Munich to be at the three-day event. Developers working in the mobile space, as well as those creating Qt apps for desktop machines and for embedded devices were all represented. 

Qt Developer Days

[More pictures from the event in this flickr set]

The two days were devoted to learning, sharing and networking. In the opening keynote of the event, Nokia’s Marco Argenti, Senior Vice President Developer Experience and Marketplace told the gathering:

Qt is increasingly popular – more developers than ever use Qt.

Nokia continues to invest in Qt, both in driving the development of Qt as well as in creating a vibrant Qt ecosystem.

The number of Qt-enabled Nokia devices in consumers’ pockets continues to grow. Millions of Nokia users buy Qt-enabled Nokia smartphones – which means the opportunity for developers with Qt and Nokia is growing.

Marco also talked about how Qt will at the core of Nokia strategy to ‘bring apps to the next billion’, which we look forward to hearing more about.

Developers at the event talked about how they are attracted to Qt’s ability to create apps for a whole slew of devices from a single code base.

 We have seen some of Qt as part of Appstravaganza, and it was exciting to see how quickly developers can get great results, especially with the new Qt Quick tool.

Qt apps work on over 100 million Symbian smartphones already in users’ hands. They also work with MeeGo on the Nokia N9. And as Nokia unveils its Qt for the Next Billion strategy, the potential number of users a Qt developer can create apps for is set to sky-rocket.

All this is good news for anyone with a current Nokia phone, of course. More developers learning more about Qt means more cool apps for you, both now and for the lifetime of your phone.

The second chapter of Qt Developer Days 2011 will take place in San Francisco at the end of November. More details on the Nokia Qt website.

Comments

  • MobileStrongBOX

    SilverLight C# is for children, Qt & C++ is for professional developers!

  • MobileStrongBOX

    SilverLight C# is for children, Qt & C++ is for professional developers!

  • Jukka

    Can someone at Nokia explain what’s happening  with Nokia 600?

  • Jukka

    Can someone at Nokia explain what’s happening  with Nokia 600?

  • Carita

    As I said in my previous comment, Nokia has decided not to ship the Nokia 600 to markets. We continuously refine our portfolio to bring consumers the best possible range of devices to meet their diverse needs.

  • Carita

    As I said in my previous comment, Nokia has decided not to ship the Nokia 600 to markets. We continuously refine our portfolio to bring consumers the best possible range of devices to meet their diverse needs.

  • Carita

    As I said in my previous comment, Nokia has decided not to ship the Nokia 600 to markets. We continuously refine our portfolio to bring consumers the best possible range of devices to meet their diverse needs.

  • Carita

    As I said in my previous comment, Nokia has decided not to ship the Nokia 600 to markets. We continuously refine our portfolio to bring consumers the best possible range of devices to meet their diverse needs.

  • Carita

    Unfortunately Nokia 600 will not ship to markets. . However, perhaps you would be keen purchase the Nokia 701, Nokia 700, Nokia 603 – all featuring the latest Symbian smartphone experience with Symbian Belle.

  • QtCoder

    As an avid Qt developer since Qt 2.3, and who attended each and every QtDevDays in Munich since 2005 I am almost being offended by what is written above (Sorry Ian).
    But telling only half the truth is just as good as telling a lei.
    Why can’t Nokia be straight forward and candid about its plans regarding Qt??
    Here are some major points you DIDN’T mention Ian, which make all the difference and paint quite another picture than you let people conclude from what you have written above:
    - Symbian is being “discontinued” “de-facto”, so anything said about that is nothing more then filling white spaces with text.
    But most of the developers are happy about that, as Symbian was not “that good” put mobility (from a developers perspective).
    So no one is really sorry about that bit.
    - MeeGo: the last two years it was all about MeeGo during DevDays, and even though it was still “half backed” it looked to be promising.
    It was a step in the right direction.
    And here is the part of the truth you chose NOT to tell:
    Yes, the N9 is a cool phone, which actually *could* give a fight to the dreaded iPhone.
    And one would expect, that after so much talk about MeeGo, it would be just the first punch.
    But no – Nokia released the N9 to be the first – AND the LAST MeeGo phone, since all the next phones by Nokia as we all well know are going to be Windows phones, and to add an insult, its not foreseen that Windows mobile will allow Qt development on it.

    So these two points more or less inverse everything you wrote Ian.
    Symbian is a dieing thing, and MeeGo is dead at birth and Windows will not allow Qt on it.
    So which platform is left for us Qt developers to target??

    During DevDays there was NOTHING new this year except QtQuick2 and a bit in mobility.
    Thats nice, but that is only the topping.
    I remember previous DevDays where the head was spinning trying to catch up with all the new things each year.
    In the “main stub” there is nothing new done – and nothing for the desktop.

    I dare you guys at Nokia – to put your cards on the table and say things as they are.

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    “Marco also talked about how Qt will at the core of Nokia strategy to
    ‘bring apps to the next billion’, which we look forward to hearing more
    about.”

    What is the roadmap for this? 

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  • Mar

    then when nokia 600 ll be launched….
    they ll launch r they ll never….
    they were telling that nokia 600 price is around 11,500…
    then wats the problem

  • Mar

    then when nokia 600 ll be launched….
    they ll launch r they ll never….
    they were telling that nokia 600 price is around 11,500…
    then wats the problem

  • Mar

    then when nokia 600 ll be launched….
    they ll launch r they ll never….
    they were telling that nokia 600 price is around 11,500…
    then wats the problem

  • Mar

    then when nokia 600 ll be launched….
    they ll launch r they ll never….
    they were telling that nokia 600 price is around 11,500…
    then wats the problem

  • Ville

     QtCoder:Can you link any source to your claim, that N9 would be the last device from Nokia using Qt technology? Elop has said, that in 2011 N9 is the only device with meego. Nothing more has been exactly said by Nokia. Certainly future devices have WP7+, S40 and perhaps some SymbianBelle, but Harmattan+ is not totally exluced out. Future Nokia devices using Qt might not be Meego devices at all, right?

  • Ville

     QtCoder:Can you link any source to your claim, that N9 would be the last device from Nokia using Qt technology? Elop has said, that in 2011 N9 is the only device with meego. Nothing more has been exactly said by Nokia. Certainly future devices have WP7+, S40 and perhaps some SymbianBelle, but Harmattan+ is not totally exluced out. Future Nokia devices using Qt might not be Meego devices at all, right?

  • Rex Reyes III

    It could be QT.NET ;)

  • Rex Reyes III

    I think you’re talking about Visual Basic… C# came from C++ too…

  • MobileStrongBOX

    What they have done with C# is just text and background pictures, nothing special, nothing fancy. Take a look at some Qt demos too see the difference!!

  • Anonymous

    The Nokia N9 is not only said to be the last MeeGo device from Nokia. It is even sabotaged by being kept away from many big markets. What is the problem for Nokia with selling the N9 instead of a me too WP phone?

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