Qt 5.1.1 released, the first patch release for the Qt 5.1 series

The guys at Digia were quite busy after Qt 5.1.0 and now they announced the release of Qt 5.1.1, the first patch release for the Qt 5.1 series.

Don't let Qt Creator foolish you while creating Android projects

If you are using Qt Creator before 2.8.x and you like to create a new project for Android, please take into account that the "Mobile Application" kit is a left-over from older Qt versions, and should not be used anymore. In Qt Creator 2.8.x it has been removed to avoid this confusion. So you just use any of the usual templates such as "Qt GUI Application", "Qt Quick 2 Application" or "Empty Qt Project".

Enabling C++ 11 support in Qt 5.x

Since the support of most the new features of the C++11 language standard is quite spread in most of recent C++ compilers (see this comparison for instance), still several of such compilers need command line options to enable C++11 support. While using qmake as your build system, you can add the following line to your qmake project file in order to produce a make file with suitable options for your compiler: "CONFIG += c++11".

Getting started with Qt 5 for Android

Are you interested in develop Qt 5 applications for Android platform? Are you  a seasoned Qt developer willing to port your applications to this hot platform? are you a newcomer both to Qt 5 and Android? If any of your answers is yes to any (or all) the above questions, you may want to watch on demand this webinar brought to us by people from Digia.

Coming soon to a serial port next to you: QtSerialPort

One of the new modules that will be officially available with Qt 5.1.0 is QtSerialPort, a way to have support for serial ports such as those that follow the RS-232 standard. As described previously in my post, serial port modules for Qt have existed for some time (QExtSerialPort likely the most known of them) however none of them were officially part of Qt.

QtInsights, a place for new audiences to learn about Qt

QtInsights is new website now available with the aim to help new audiences learn about Qt – the cross-platform development framework – through dialog with the Qt community.  Calling all Qt Developers, Designers and Project Managers Help the rest of the world learn... There is also a new Twitter account (@QtInsights) - so you might want to follow them to stay up to date. If you tweet about them please use the #qtinsights hashtag. 

New Qt 5.1 Beta available

For the intrepid ones, and those willing to have a taste of Qt on Android, Digia has provided the Beta release of Qt 5.1 with pre-built binaries for Android hat can be bundled in with your application.