QT5.3 IOS Port

[Jacob Shapiro]

Following my recent success to compile the latest LyX with QT5.2.1, I am
wondering how impractical it would be to port LyX to iOS using QT's built-in
support: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/ios-support.html

In particular, is this support only for new applications, or can you take a pre-
existing source (such as LyX) and use the framework as is?

How about Android?

[Richard Heck]

Post by Jacob Shapiro
Following my recent success to compile the latest LyX with QT5.2.1, I am
wondering how impractical it would be to port LyX to iOS using QT's built-in
support: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/ios-support.html

It would be great if you could get this to work.

Post by Jacob Shapiro
In particular, is this support only for new applications, or can you take a pre-existing source (such as LyX) and use the framework as is?

I believe it is intended to work with existing applications, but I do
not know how complete the Qt support is. We use a lot.

Post by Jacob Shapiro
How about Android?

From my point of view, this would be even cooler, but I do not myself
know anything about Qt support for Android. This page
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/android-support.html
claims, however, that almost all of Qt is supported there.

I suspect that on either platform there will be issues. Is boost
supported on iOS or Android? We do make some use (less than previously)
of those libraries. More importantly, we have only begun to experiement,
really, with LyX under Qt 5. I believe that has mostly been successful,
but there have been glitches. So there will be some adjustments we have
to make.

All of that said, I'm sure people here would be greatly interested in
this sort of project.

Richard