Version 4.6 of Nokias cross-platform Application and UI Framework has been released officially. This version is quite a leap from 4.5. It includes support for Symbian platform which is by the way a first and in line with Nokias intention to bring some harmony into their development platforms.
Also added is support for Windows 7 & Mac OS 10.6 popularly known as Snow leopard. The upcoming Maemo 6 from Nokia its self has not been left out too. Community support is available for realtime Operating Systems QNX and VxWorks.
For those that cant get enough of multi-touch and gesture based applications, QT 4.6 adds support for it via input methods such as flicking and kinetic scrolling. Other than the new features there are a few performance improvement such as the optimized re-written Qt Graphics view rendering algorithm, new Open GL engine, Webkit, Open VG 2D vector support and DirectFB support.
There is a new animation Framework with new graphics effects such as opacity, drop shadows, glow, filtering etc. The IDE QT Creator has also been beefed up to version 1.3 to support the features mentioned above.
With all this Nokia too has released a technology preview of this API for developers.
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[...] Nokia Releases QT 4.2.6 Posted by sobbayi on 15 Feb 2010 under Announcement, Featured, Frameworks, Updates Nokia Announced today that it has released QT 4.2.6 cross-platform application and UI framework. So what does this mean? Well for starters, a better platform than any previous versions before it. This will be interesting to download and use as it brings in much anticipated features such as the Smart installer for Symbian (BETA). There is also a QT port to Maemo 5. Something I am looking forward to trying out is the newly updated QT Visual Studio Add-in. It will also be interesting to note that there are new QT APIs from the mobility project too. In addition to these there are numerous bug fixes and updates to the SDK. Follow this announcement to learn more about these new features and see the changes in QT 4.2.6 here. You may also download QT 4.2.6 from here. Related Article: Nokia Announces Release of QT 4.6.0 [...]