With all the MeeGo Buzz and Nokia’s commitment to ensure its quick proliferation into a main OS for the future we sourced a few websites and got together a quick guide on building your first basic MeeGo application using Qt Creator. You will need to download the Qt creator in order to start building apps for MeeGo. Qt Creator is recommended as the integrated development environment (IDE) to use for creating MeeGo applications. Project creation is a snap. Features such as code-completion, integrated help, and drag/drop UI design accelerate application development.

Qt Creator features

• An advanced C++ code editor
• Project and build management tools
• Integrated, context-sensitive help system
• Visual debugger
• Code management and navigation tools

Download

Select the version of Qt that matches your development system. Qt libraries are licensed under LGPL and allow applications linked with them to be either open source or proprietary.

Guide

Tutorial to create a basic Qt Application for MeeGo by Bob Spencer a Sr. Software Engineer at Intel.

1. Start Qt Creator

2. Start the New Project Wizard

• Select menu item: File, New File or Project
• Select Qt4 Gui Application

3. Select a name and path for the project. We will call our project “HelloMeeGo”

4. Click “Next” through the rest of the wizard screens.

5. The project is now created. We can build and run it at this point.

6. Select the main window cpp file to edit it.

7. Add the highlighted lines below to your file to create a title, icon, menu, and label. For simplicity we borrow the nautilus icon.

8. Build the project and run.

Congratulations You have created your first MeeGo application.