What’s New in Qt?

Qt is a cross-platform application framework for desktop and embedded development. New features in the latest version of Qt enable you to:

Qtopia now renamed to Qt Extended, reflecting the extended functionality it brings to embedded Linux
Develop more advanced user interfaces
Enrich your applications with multimedia, and web content and services
Deploy those applications to Windows embedded platforms

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Qt WebKit Integration

Incorporate online content and services such as maps, music stores and instant messaging into your native applications.

Qt now integrates with WebKit, the open source browser engine inside Apple’s Safari browser, the Apple iPhone and millions of Nokia smartphones. The integration allows developers to blend web and native content and functionality, create innovative user interfaces, and deliver a consistent, web-enriched user experience.

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Qt Extended (formerly Qtopia)

Create an advanced user experience with functionality configured for wide variety of devices.

Qt Extended extends the functionality of Qt for Embedded Linux and with the 4.4 release targeting consumer electronics is even easier. New features:

Modular architecture for feature selection
Improved touch based user interface
IP communications framework based on Telepathy – IM (XMPP) and presence
Unified inbox for email, SMS, MMS, IM, etc. plus push IMAP email and more
New Qt UI Test tool

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Phonon Multimedia Framework

Build cross-platform audio and video into your application.

Qt now includes support for Phonon, a multimedia framework developed in conjunction with the KDE community. Phonon makes it easy to include multimedia playback in Qt applications, and abstracts multimedia formats and frameworks on each targeted platform.

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Advanced User Interface Effects

Create more dynamic user experiences.

Qt now also adds the flexibility of embedding widgets into a scene, bringing layouts, styling, popups and even window decorations into the canvas realm, and allowing the rotation, scaling, and application of perspective transformations to widgets.

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Addex XML Support

Put XML to work in your application.

Qt now incorporates support for the XQuery standard. This enables developers to query, extract and transform data from XML encoded content in Qt-based applications.

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Simplified Multi-Threaded Programming

Take advantage of multi-core architecture more easily.

The QtConcurrent framework provides high-level APIs that make it possible to write multi-threaded programs without using low-level threading primitives. Building on Qt's threading features, QtConcurrent makes it easier to write certain kinds of multi-threaded applications.

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