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I'm curious how this affects file sizes? I like my static binaries and portability, but I fear this would make things balloon quite a bit to get the same broad distribution.

I've been planning on using an embedded webkit + html app in an upcoming desktop project. Are there any resources for how difficult it would be to learn Qt and create a reasonable portable, easily downloadable app?

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The file size depends on the target and what modules you use, for dynamically linked projects I would guess it's around 50mb for an average project. Maybe 20mb more on windows because of the icu libs, but those can be replaced with your own (much smaller) versions. Static projects may weight half of what the dynamic ones do, so maybe around 25mb. But depending on how much you care about file size, you could also compile your own static Qt version and then strip everything that you don't need.

Here [1] are some infos about QML development and here [2] you can try out QML in the browser.

[1] https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-appstudio-samples/wiki/Unders... [2] https://qmlweb.github.io

I'd take a look at QT Quick.

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