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by secretsatan 1260 days ago
I’m one of few left in our company of our original mobile team after we switched to qt, and i pretty much soft quit by writing an entirely new native app
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How does QT fare for multiplatform dev? This is often forgotten when talking of the choice available.

At the time of Blackberry 10, this was an appealing solution with Cascade. But now?

My personal opinion, it is the worst, we spent more time working on getting it to build than coding, it’s a platform only a die hard cpp developer could love and only because they’ve never tried anything different.

Even the mobile app we do have in qt has substantial coding in native. It doesn’t have things like faceid for login, light/dark themes, is extremely restrictive in supported devices and orientations.

There’s next to no community, anyone who does mobile just doesn’t use it, and imho, for very good reason, mobile dev moved on and supporters of qt just seem to like making it harder for themselves to support it.

I’d say it works ok on desktop, but i generally find qt apps on my mac look dated and have odd unmac like qualities.