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Has anyone seen good results with the new Qt mobile tools? I realize that it won't look quite native - but Qt's got a pretty good track record, and if I could write apps using C++ instead of Java, and get some cross-platform capability, I'd certainly be interested.

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I've been burned by cross-platform tools. I tried Sencha Touch, and it was a horrible 2-year mistake.

Something that compiles might do better, but at the end of the day you really want to be calling into the cocoa touch framework directly. If Qt lets you do this, great. If it doesn't, look elsewhere.

I have probably been writing and porting more C++ code on Android lately than Java code. I haven't done much with QT. Some of the apps used the SDL library. Some of the apps have been OpenGL 1.x code ported to OpenGL ES.

I guess it all depends on what platforms you have in mind.

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