In June 6, 2011, An exciting news was released: Qt Quick components are available to the public finally. As the announcer [labs.qt.nokia.com]mentioned, Qt Quick components helps to create a fresh and modern UX with added productivity. This is the first time of Qt quick introducing the “real” mobile UI elements to the audiences.
In this article, we will introduce how to use the Qt Quick Components for symbian: the set of components for application development using the latest Symbian user interface design.
Obtain the Qt Quick components for Symbian
Please note that Qt Quick components is still under experimental, you can get the experimental package in either of the following ways:
Qt Lab [labs.qt.nokia.com] has mentioned in either of the following ways to get Qt Quick components for Symbian:
- If you have Qt SDK 1.1 installed, open Qt SDK’s Maintenance tool in Qt Creator ( Help | Start Updater ) and find from “Package Manager” a “Qt Quick components for Symbian” update under “Experimental” category. Once you updated successully, the Qt SDK’s maintenance tool will look as follows:
- If you don’t have Qt SDK installed yet, find a online installer http://qt.nokia.com/downloads and remember to select “Custom installation” and ”Qt Quick components for Symbian” under “Experimental”.
Import Qt Quick components example
After the succesful installation of Qt Quick components, let’s see what it will looks like! Open the example located at $QTDIR\Examples\4.7\qt-components\, take “gallery” as an example, open the gallery.pro for the Qt quick component example project, and swich to the creator designer, you will how beautiful the Qt quick components looks:
The component palette in Qt Quick Designer
Looks and feel of the gallery example in Qt Quick Designer
Running and deploying
You can run this example in qt Simulator (see the following pic) or deploy it in Symbian device.
Looks and feel of the gallery example in running Qt simulator