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Welcome to the Necessitas TODO wiki page

= Qt framework  =

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! Status 
! Description 
! Difficulty 

{{FeatureInProgress
|Compile and run all test and benchmarks, also make sure they pass
|Easy
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{{FeatureInProgress
|QSystemTrayIcon
|Medium}}

{{FeatureInProgress 
|x86 support
|Medium}}

{{FeatureInProgress
|Android style plugin.Qt apps must look the same as native Android apps.
|Hard}}

{{FeatureInProgress
|Android menus simulation/use. We need to find a way to use android native menus.
|Hard}}

{{FeatureTodo
|Find a way to compile for all android platforms at once, switch to [http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qbs/index.html QBS]
|Medium}}
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= QtCreator =

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! Status 
! Description 
! Difficulty 

{{FeatureInProgress 
|x86 support
|Easy}}

{{FeatureTodo
| Switch to [http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qbs/index.html QBS], is the only way to compile for all android platforms at once
| Hard }}
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=QtMobility=
==Support all android platforms==
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! Status 
! Description 
! Difficulty 

{{FeatureTodo
|Contacts implementation needs to be reviewd/rewritten, it crashes on my phone with 150+ contacts.
|Medium}}

{{FeatureTodo
|Check all mobility modules
|Medium}}

{{FeatureTodo
|Multimedia module
|Hard}}

{{FeatureTodo
|Proper camera implementation
|Hard}}

|}

=QtWebKit=
==Speed==
* QtWebKit 2.2.x is still 2x times slower than Google's WebKit.

=Android QML Controls=
Create Android QML Controls which looks and feel like native Android controls, you have to use Ministro's extracted look & feel data for every device which is already used by classic controls. To find out how to use the data, please take a look to qandroidstyle plugin.
Yes we know that there are a some implementation out there based on MeeGO/Symbian implementations, the problem is that apps made using these implementation looks & feels like MeeGO/Symbian apps not like Android apps.

=QBS=
* QBS is extremely important for QtCreator used by Necessitas project, it will actually make the difference between another IDE for Android and '''the''' IDE for Android.


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! Status 
! Description 
! Difficulty 

{{FeatureTodo
|Find a better way to probe the toolchains and platforms, check [http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/qbs/2012-March/000062.html this] and [http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/qbs/2012-June/000159.html this] threads.
|Hard}}

{{FeatureTodo
| Find a way to configure the projects
|Hard }}
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=Platform Issues=
==Windows==
* Make it so that the Windows version can be built from Linux (mingw cross compiler support, quite a lot of work, esp. building Python which needs to run itself to compile the modules under Wine)
* Fix make.exe -j support (would help with building on Windows as otherwise it requires baby-sitting).
* Add support to 7za and installer-framework for symbolic links on Windows (see msdos command mklink) so there's no need to remove symlinks from the packages (and also MinGW's ln program)
* Fix webkit build failure on Windows and Mac OS X
* Fix installer framework so that it can install from local packages folder instead of always having to use the network -> this already works on Mac OS X (just modify config.xml to use file:/usr/www/ etc), but not on Windows (where it works partially, updates.xml is loaded but nothing else); I'm not sure about Linux, maybe add a command line option to override the repo url?