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Material Design implemented in QtQuick
2 points · Open discussionpapyros
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:book: Material Design implemented in QtQuick
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3 points · Open discussionI could have implemented it with QtWidgets, however I had found a decent UI widget library that suited my use case very well ([1]). Hence went with QML/QtQuick.
My advice - just do it :-). If you want to build a cross-platform desktop app then go for QtQuick/QML/C++. QtCreator has a bunch of example projects. Use those as reference. The Qt docs are solid. Worst case - you will learn that Qt/C++.
I am not a big fan of PyQt/PySide, especially when starting fresh with Qt - you would have a hard time figuring out how everything fits and where the issues are.
[1] https://github.com/papyros/qml-material
Paraphrasing a previous comment:
I have used web-based task/todo lists (trello, asana, etc.) but I wanted something that could be used offline - my work does not allow storing company sensitive data on 3rd-party servers.
Started the project with
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Electron, using AngularJS and Angular Material. That allowed rapid prototyping with a slick UI and it was fairly easy to find additional Angular-based plugins. My main motivation in selecting Electron and Angular was to learn the two technologies (easier to learn something by doing a project in it). Screenshot: http://imgur.com/NZzEFKX
Had a few issues with the Electron app - big download size (50-70MB zipped), no print functionality, app felt non-native, very convoluted process to get it published on the Mac App Store.
Decided to change the tech stack to Qt/QML. I have published C++-based games, built on Cocos2dx. Wanted to try Qt to build a serious app.
Gumroad has been a slick experience - I have opted for the fully functional trial option and let the user buy a license to use beyond the trial period. Gumroad's onboarding (buy workflow) and tech (license key generation and validation) have been a revelation.
There are go bindings that are excellent (https://github.com/go-qml/qml). this, combined with the Google Material style kit (http://github.com/papyros/qml-material) results in very simple, clean apps with all the goodness of go.
For me, the only drawback is not being able to expose a go object as a model, involving a bit of back and forth, but the rest is very very clean.
In Qt 5.6.0 releasedIt does, but I'm not sure if material design is ready now. There is qml-material[0] though, and it's pretty good. But: The last time I checked (maybe 5 or 6 months ago), QML/Qt Quick apps on Android took way too long to launch. I couldn't do anything about it, so haven't used it since then.
[0] https://github.com/papyros/qml-material
In GoQtI've not tried this but I thought I'd mention that I've been using the QT QML packages for building desktops apps and the results are amazing!
https://github.com/go-qml/qml
Even better with the Material additions from here:
https://github.com/papyros/qml-material
Building Google Material themed apps easily with a Golang back end? Lovely!
I really hope the Golang team are considering the QML package as part of the standard library in Go v2, it would an absolutely awesome GUI kit to have as standard!
In Go + gxui: Rendering native app GUIs on any platform?