Porting applications which were developed for the desktop to run on smaller mobile devices can be a daunting task, depending on the application. Even creating new apps for mobiles, a few considerations need to be made, such as differences in screen resolution, memory constraints, and handling orientation changes. Touch screens add another fantastic way to offer touch gestures and can be challenging due to the differences in the size of a finger as point compared to a mouse pointer. Then there are sensors, GPS and networking to contemplate!Â
Going smaller, handling screen sizes
Screen resolution
As you can see in the previous images in the Add QListView section, the application paradigms are fairly different...