Thursday, February 27, 2014

Project ERROR: You need to set the ANDROID_NDK_ROOT environment variable

If you received such error message when build a Qt application for Android within Qt Creator, the simple solution is to export the ANDROID_NDK_ROOT environment variable pointing to the folder where you have uncompressed the Android NDK bundle. Then run Qt Creator again and the build should continue without issues.

Monday, February 24, 2014

QCommandLineParser: an integrated way to treat command line options, new in Qt 5.2

A long awaited feature is available with the release of Qt 5.2.1: a command line parser, so for applications that need to accept command line options, a cross platform solution is finally available as part of the Qt framework itself, say good bye to relying on third parties libraries (for instance QtArg just to mention any of them).


Welcome back Nokia?

With the announcement of the Nokia X family during the Mobile World Congress (Barcelona, Spain) a new twist in the old relationship between Nokia and Qt might surface again.

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Qt 5.2.1 released, the first patch release for the Qt 5.2 series

The guys at Digia listened to the feedback received from the Qt Enterprise and Qt Mobile customers as well as the whole Qt community, so they announced the release of Qt 5.2.1the first patch release for the Qt 5.2 series, providing many improvements.