ICS Development Team

ICS Development Team

With hundreds of successful projects to our credit, ICS’ software development team understands the tools, technologies and techniques needed to turn ideas into successful products. We love sharing our knowledge and helping our clients innovate!

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Odds 'n Ends

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 12:31 ">  •  By ICS Development Team  •  Qt, PhoneGap, Raspberry Pi, Cordova

Throughout this project one thing that has been constantly changing has been the source code repositories, both due to several project names changes and with the move to being run as an Apache project.

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Qt 5 alpha release is imminent!

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 12:31 ">  •  By ICS Development Team  •  Qt, Mobile, Cordova

In the past week or so we commited some more code for Contacts and Notification. Camera support has been submitted as a pull request. We are doing some testing on Symbian with a Nokia E7 phone  as we haven't done much testing on Symbian up to now.

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Qt 5 Alpha Out, Raspberry Pi Shipping

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 12:30 ">  •  By ICS Development Team  •  Qt, Raspberry Pi, Cordova

Work has been slowing down somewhat as Qt 5 has been firming up for release. The Qt 5 alpha came out on April 3rd and we tested our code with it. Work is moving ahead for a Qt 5 beta release and then the 5.0.0 final this summer.

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Testing Continues

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 12:29 ">  •  By ICS Development Team  •  Qt, Cordova, Raspberry Pi

We've recently been running the Cordova tests and making some fixes to get them to run better. 

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What's New in Qt 5: The QTemporaryDir Class

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 10:58 ">  •  By ICS Development Team  • 

One sometimes needs to store information in a temporary location. POSIX compliant platforms like Linux provide the tmpfile() library function to create a unique temporary file that is automatically deleted when it is closed or the program terminates. Qt provides an abstraction of this with the QTemporaryFile class.

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Please, may I have another slice of Raspberry Pi...

Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 13:56 ">  •  By ICS Development Team  •  Raspberry Pi, Embedded

About three weeks ago, Nokia arranged for ICS to gain access to the Raspberry Pi board so that we could help with an exploratory open source effort to get Qt working on this platform. That is how I got my chance to hack some code for this amazing board. The idea was to get a bleeding edge version of Qt 5 to run and to experience first hand hardware accelerated QSceneGraph based QML. And indeed bleeding edge it is - but also blazing fast. Now, first things first:

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Qt Dev Days Munich Recap

Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 13:55 ">  •  By ICS Development Team  •  Raspberry Pi

Good talking to you all at Qt Dev Days Munich. We'll be at Dev Days in San Francisco beginning Nov 29 - hope to see you there!

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Qt 5 + Raspberry Pi Demo

Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 13:54 ">  •  By ICS Development Team  •  Raspberry Pi, Embedded

Here's a video of my colleague, Roland Krause, demonstrating Qt 5 + Raspberry Pi at Qt Dev Days in Munich. Stop by our booth in San Francisco next week to see it first hand...and for your chance to win one of your very own!

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70+ Raspberry Pi boards given away at Qt Developer Days

Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 13:52 ">  •  By ICS Development Team  •  Raspberry Pi

As part of the initiative to put Qt 5 on Raspberry Pi, ICS gave away over 70 Raspberry Pi boards to interested developers at Qt Developer Days last week. If you were one of the lucky winners, be on the lookout over the next few days for an email from ICS so you'll know how to go about receiving it once they are available. More details and a video demo are available here: Qt 5 + Raspberry Pi

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Status Update

Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 13:51 ">  •  By ICS Development Team  •  Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi folks report that the first batch of production boards is finally in production. The first 10,000 units should start becoming available around the end of this month.

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