bigb2009 wrote:
Is there going to be public beta, or is this just going to be dropped at some point? And any idea on when?
Yes, Cascades will be made available as a public beta. I do know the timelines I just can't give you exact details yet. I can say that we want to ensure that you have months of lead time to work with the SDK leading up to the BB10 device launch.
Trust me, I'd love to give you the date, but I don't want to be the one who let the cat out of the bag 
iravelo wrote:
Tim, thank you for your answer,
coming from java (and already having a good C backgroun), I tend to prefer investing in learning Qt than learning html/css/js + js framework, so BBNDK suits me better.
Hasn't Cascades been made with Qt (fork ) ?Please let us (or help us) use Qt + Qt's UI components (nokia's is OK) right now; we do not need to patiently wait for cascades beta to built pretty non-game apps : good ideas of apps need to be turned into code asap.
Android ported apps appear quite uggly with their own native android UI; so coding in java is not an acceptabe option when builind apps from scratch like I want to do.
RIM, please make us happier and help or demand the opensource guys publishing their windows and Macosx Qt creator 2.5 with full PB support very quickly !!
Thanks in advance.
Hi iravelo,
On BB10 we are including QT based APIs as part of the OS. Also our BlackBerry system APIs that you have used in the past in Java have been moved to C++ libraries that have the same development patterns as QT to make sure things follow the same familiar QT pattern (signals/slots etc).
The existing QT UI components will likely look as foreign as the Android controls do on the plaform. This is why we have added our own flavor and addions to the QML format for QT. QML is what the Cascades UI engine uses to render the UI.
Are you having specific problems with the exiting QT port available in github? I can try and bring them back to the team to see if they are known issues or items that are being worked on.
