ekke’s mobile business apps (Qt 6: Android, iOS)

All about ekke’s mobile business apps for Android and iOS, developed using Qt 6.5+

Please take a look at ekke’s blog about Qt 5 development here.

Personal blog and informations can be found at ekkes-corner.

ekke started as a programmer in 1978 (Assembler, COBOL).

ekke’s focus last years is on mobile app development. ekke started mobile dev in 2010 with BlackBerry OS 6/7 (Micro Java), followed by BlackBerry 10 (Cascades UI, Qt 4.8).

As BlackBerry dropped BB10, ekke started 2016 development using Qt 5 (C++, QML and QtQuickControls2 from the beginning), followed by Qt 6 in 2023.

(some of) ekke’s apps

  • Outpatient and inpatient care apps
  • Electrically operated slatted frames for beds – app helps sales staff adjust the frames with motors (BT LE)
  • Clothing retail: Employee time control – using BT LE Beacons to verify location
  • Large energy supplier: DropBox-like app to give enterprise employees access to shared network drives, SharePoints… and download files to mobile or upload to server
  • Plant Wholesale: some apps with BT LE barcode scanner for barcode checking, receiving, packing lists, goods dispatch, quality control at gardeners, inventory, … Android phones in landscape mode on arm and barcode finger scanner to have hands free to work, picking app with Apple 13″ iPad pro attached to electric trolley
  • Time recording on construction sites
  • Conference apps, per ex QtWS

ekke – young and now 😉

  

Qt 6

Since 2020 Qt is working on Qt 6 and now it’s a good time to port all mobile apps from Qt 5 to Qt 6. This is not an easy step, because API was changed, many deprecations, new QML Compiler, new Build System and much more.

This blog here at ekkes-apps.org will talk about the travel from Qt5 to Qt 6. You are new to mobile Apps with Qt ? Then this blog is also for your – I’m always explaining from the beginning. See all the details in the Menus.

Goal

  • Provide documentation HowTo transform Android/iOS apps from Qt 5 to Qt 6.
  • Trying to understand how cmake is working 😉
  • Find out HowTo get the best from new QML compilers.
  • Rework my Eclipse Xtext/Xtend based src generator (Entities, DTOs).
  • And most important: motivate other mobile devs to try out Qt 6.
  • Help developers to start with Qt for mobile app development.
    • There will be some small example apps to learn step by step.
    • BT LE example app to scan for devices and communicate
    • Also QtWS Conference App as a more complex one.
  • Hopefully having stable solutions with Qt 6.6 (end of sep 2023)

Stay tuned…

About ekkescorner

ekke (Ekkehard Gentz): International Development native Mobile Business Apps BlackBerry 10 | Qt Mobile (Android, iOS) workshops, trainings, bootcamps and consulting. BlackBerry Elite Developer BlackBerry Platin Enterprise Partner ekke works as Independent Softwarearchitect in the domain of business applications (ERP) since more then 30 years. He likes to develop high quality mobile apps for customers around the world. ekke is speaker on national and international developer conferences, writes articles, blogs at http://ekkes-corner.org and tweets @ekkescorner. more infos on native mobile app development: http://appbus.org ekke lives in the south of Germany and in his spare time he likes to travel with family as backpacker to greek islands. View all posts by ekkescorner

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