Cybercom attended the 7th Qt Developer Days in Munich and this time we had Cybercom exhibition booth there as well. We had three attendees this year: Tommi Palonen and Marko Mattila (me) from Cybercom Finland and Ingmar Bengtsson from Cybercom Sweden.

We were quite busy during those three days because there had to be at least one person in the exhibition area all the time and at the same time we had a bunch of meetings and of course we wanted to follow all the interesting presentations too.

The atmosphere of the event was really good and we can only thank Qt Development Frameworks for organizing such a pleasant event.

I went to see as many presentations as possible while Tommi was mostly working at the exhibition area. I spent most of my time following the Qt Labs presentations such as Qt Scene Graph, Qt / 3D QML and Qt Components. I also went  to check out Alexis Menard’s presentation about the Qt GraphicsView. Good stuff, I must say.

Cybercom is a Certified Qt Partner and we received really good feedback regarding our actions related to Qt. I really hope that we are able to organize more Cybercom Developer Day events in the future too and be able to promote new technologies as we did this year.

We will also continue development of demos related on Qt. Let’s see if we can publish our demo code at some point.

Qt Quick

The main topic of the event was definitely Qt Quick. At the same time one of the main concerns from the non-mobile-world-developers was that will Qt focus too much on mobile development? I think this is a good question and something I too am a bit worried about.

For example Qt Components is clearly targeted for MeeGo and it is required to have libmeegotouch installed in order to be able to build Qt Components. I understand that Qt Components is a labs project at the moment and they had to choose one platform to start from. On the other hand, for many developers it would be nice to play with Qt Components without a dependency to MeeGoTouch. But as they stated in the Qt Components presentation, it’s just a start and the support for other platforms will come at some point too.

I think there is always a little room for criticism (the nature of Finnish people), but in the end what Trolls do, usually ends up to be something great. Good example was how well Qt / 3D integrates with existing QML engine. I’m also waiting to see what happens on the Qt scene graph side. Gunnar Sletta gave a really good presentation about how Qt graphics side will be optimized in a future and showed us how the current scene graph implementation gives a really huge boost in performance.

Cybercom Demos

We had couple of demos at the Qt Developer Days 2010 which received interested looks… This is of course always a good thing.  We presented the RdUX concept device with QML based window management and multitouch. The interesting part is that QML doesn’t really support multitouch yet and the demo worked pretty well with cool animations. But the last day the worst thing happened – RdUX corrupted its hard drive and we couldn’t demo it anymore. Luckily, it was the last day and that’s the nature of demo devices. You can checkout here our penguins to wonder what happened to the device.

We also had two other demos running on N8 and HTC devices. These applications are not demos at all, but real applications.  They were made for China Mobile some time ago and you can find a pretty good blog article about this Qt based China Mobile musics application from a Qt blog.

The Future?

In the end the Qt Developer Days 2010 was a really great event. It was bigger than before and I think it’s not going to be smaller in the future.

As a certified Qt Partner we will continue our work to become better and bigger in the Qt scene. Although we have about 10 years of experience  in developing Qt software, there is still room for improvement and learn about new things that the Trolls invent.

To make sure that Trolls remember us, we left them a memory – a “We like penguins” T-shirt.

Thank you Trolls!