If you want to get started developing MeeGo applications your best bet is probably to get up to speed with Qt. To get the full scoop and resources on Qt visit Nokia's Qt site and participate in the QT community.

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What is Qt

Qt (pronounced as cute) is produced and managed by Nokia's Qt Development Frameworks division. Qt is a cross-platform application and UI framework. It includes a cross-platform class library, integrated development tools and a cross-platform IDE. Using Qt, you can write web-enabled applications once and deploy them across many desktop and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code. For additional history and technical info browse the Wikipedia entry for Qt Framework

What Can You Do With Qt

Write code once to target multiple platforms Qt allows you to write advanced applications and UIs once, and deploy them across desktop and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code saving time and development cost. At the time of this post, Qt is available for the following platforms: Embedded Linux, Max OS 10, Windows, Linux /X11, Windows CE/Mobile, Symbian, and MeeGo Create amazing user experiences Whether you prefer C++ or JavaScript, Qt provides the building blocks — a broad set of customizable widgets, graphics canvas, style engine and more that you need to build modern user interfaces. Incorporate 3D graphics, multimedia audio or video, visual effects, and animations to set your application apart from the competition. Do more with less (and faster) With the new Qt Creator cross-platform IDE, or on its own, Qt is fast to learn and easy to use. And Qt's modular class library means that you can spend more time on innovation, and less time on infrastructure coding getting your software to market faster. And with Qt Quick, Qt Creator provides either a declarative mode for power C++ development or Qt Quick for integrating rich fluid UI design with rapid javascript development without needing to code in C++ Blend web and native code in a single application Qt's integration with the WebKit web rendering engine means that you can quickly incorporate content and services from the Web into your native application, and can use the web environment to deliver your services and functionality impressing your users in the process.

QtStudios Videos 4:30 Qt Quick Demos in Qt Creator 20,172 views 5 months ago 4:41 QML and Qt Creator 34,544 views 8 months ago 9:35 QML/3D Demo - Behold the Monkey God 8,858 views 2 months ago 1:32 Qt Quick - Exporting QML from Photoshop 299 views 18 hours ago

Who Uses Qt

Qt is used by thousands of companies in a multitude of leading industries enabling them to develop software and devices used by hundreds of millions of people every day.

Samsung SPF-105V Digital Photo Frame Samsung was able to develop a Web-enabled digital photo frame with the dynamic information with the Qt GUI and application framework.	Roku Inc. This Roku device provides seamless, direct streaming of video content from Netflix to consumers' TVs via a Qt-based interface.
Barco The Barco digital projector's Communicator touch panel was built using Qt allowing for a strong GUI and one-source code multi-platform deployment.	ASUS EeePC ASUS has released a comprehensive software developer’s kit (SDK) for the ASUS’ mobile Internet device, the Eee PC™. The Eee PC™ Linux version uses KDE, a famous desktop environment based on Qt.
Next Limit Technologies Next Limit Technologies has won technical Oscars and Academy Awards for one of their Qt-based app, RealFlow. Learn more about how they have used Qt to build their fluid, dynamic and light simulation software.	DAZ 3D DAZ 3D develops powerful 3D software and digital content creation applications. Qt has helped DAZ 3D simplify cross-platform development and dramatically shortened their product release cycles via a short developer learning curve.

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