Qt implementation for Android introduced

The Romanian software developer Bogdan Vatra has announced a first alpha version of his Qt implementation for the Android mobile operating system. The release might be timed just right for many developers, since Nokia has, in the context of its cooperation with Microsoft, announced that it does not intend to develop a Windows Phone variant of the GUI framework. On the other hand, more than a few Qt users are probably interested in developing software for Android devices rather than using Silverlight or the XNA framework to develop software for Microsoft's mobile platform.

The new implementation of the Open NFC API to be available soon

The new implementation of the Open NFC (Near Field Communications) API will be available for download in a few weeks, with Inside Secure claiming that its abstraction layer makes the stack more hardware independent than its competition.