At Qt World Summit in 2019, KDAB offered five Introductory courses (one was given by our partner, froglogic), and three advanced classes., as follows: Introductory Course descriptions Introduction to Qt 3D Studio, trainer: Nuno Pinheiro This training introduces designers and developers to 3D content workflows and concepts, giving them a solid grounding in creating content […]

Right from the start, unu wanted to add a stylish, first-class embedded high-res display to their second generation electric scooter. Like many top-class engineering companies, unu didn’t have in-house expertise for building a modern UI, so they decided to partner with KDAB to build a modern UI based on Qt. In this video you learn […]

Those of you who've visited KDAB's offices in Berlin, will know we have a fleet of electric scooters for our staff. You may have even tried one yourself! Today, unu, the Berlin-based mobility company that makes them, launches their latest electric scooter - the unu Scooter. The unu Scooter has been completely redeveloped, is more […]

Houston, Texas, May 24th, 2019 — KDAB, the Qt®, OpenGL®, and C++® experts, today announced that it has joined the BlackBerry QNX Distributor & Value-Added Integrator Program, a worldwide network of value-added integrators, distributors, and reseller experts trained on QNX technology. Under the agreement, KDAB will provide integration and customization services for a range of […]

In vehicle infotainment systems and instrument clusters are getting larger and more complex, requiring an exponentially growing base of software to drive them. Furthermore, KDAB finds that self-driving technology does not obviate the need for displays – in fact, autonomous technology seems to be accelerating the trend for larger and more capable graphics software. To […]

KDAB is proud to announce that for the first time ever we will be present at Embedded Technology outside of Tokyo in Japan. Every year more than 25000 visitors attend over 3 days! The event takes place in the Pacifico Yokohama exhibition center and focuses on Embedded AI, IoT Wireless Technology, Smart Sensing and Safety […]

KDAB announces the release of Kuesa™, a solution that provides an integrated and unified workflow for designers and developers to create, optimize and integrate real time 3D content in a 3D or hybrid 2D/3D software user interface. Kuesa provides an easy, integrated and unified workflow without any compromises for designers and developers giving: great performance […]

This year's North American stop on the Qt World Summit world tour was in Boston, held during the Red Sox’s World Series win. Most of us were glad to be flying home before celebration parades closed the streets! The Qt community has reason to celebrate too, as there’s an unprecedented level of adoption and support […]

The Linux Foundation holds its Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Europe in Edinburgh, October 22 - 24, 2018 In spite of the clumsy name, this is an event you won't want to miss! KDAB's Christoph Sterz will be presenting a talk on Tuesday, October 23 • 15:50 - 16:30: Extending the Performance Analysis […]

This is the latest release of our powerful open-source Qt component, KD Chart, that allows you to create business charts and much more. Release Highlights Builds with modern Qt versions, at least up to Qt 5.10 Improves tooltip handling Fixes horizontal bar chart Uses @rpath for OSX dynamic libraries Fixes build on Qt4/ARM KD Chart […]

Thanks for joining us for this year's edition of Meet Qt that took place in Paris on the 19th June. The focus this year was medical and automotive and the event was again very successful despite the train strikes. If you could not attend here is an idea of what KDAB offered: A medical client's […]

KDAB is proud to be bronze sponsor at Italian C++ Conference, the largest conference in Italy specifically focused on C++ development for professionals, students and businesses using C++. It's free, organized by the Italian C++ community, and there's Italian icecream to think about too... It's an offer you can't refuse ;) Sign up and see […]

At KDAB, we know that consistency is an important aspect of the User Experience - users don’t want to have to learn different ways to achieve the same thing. In the Linux world, there is a major structural pitfall to this: the applications written for Linux come in at least two major technologies - Qt […]

Clazy is a Clang plugin which extends the compiler with over 50 warnings related to Qt best practices ranging from unneeded memory allocations to API misuse. It’s an opensource project spawned by KDAB’s R&D efforts for better C++ tooling. At KDAB, we have a pretty cool Continuous Integration infrastructure to take care of our customers’ […]

"I have also done some last minute performance improvements with the help of KDAB Hotspot/perf, and I must say that the days of profiling with weird/huge perf command line options are gone, awesome tool!" Hotspot is a KDAB R&D project to create a standalone GUI for performance data. It is a replacement for perf report. […]

The City Lights demo is an example of Qt 3D being put to novel use to implement a deferred rendering pipeline. With OpenGL, the number of lights you can show on a screen, also affecting objects in a scene, is limited by the need to use a forward renderer. Using Qt 3D, the geometry considerations […]

This year Qt World Summit was held once more at the Berlin Congress Centre, in central Berlin and had over 1000 attendees – clear testimony to the growth of the Qt Community, as Qt enables our interfaces with the world in multiple areas, from medical to automotive, from gaming to industrial machinery, on desktop, mobile […]

Some of you may know that KDAB employees enjoy flexibility on working hours as well as location, and some choose to work from home, with the opportunity to share childcare, do part-time study or simply enjoy an out-of-the-way location. All that's required is a decent bandwidth for KDAB work. About once a year, all of […]

Through their partnership, Qi and KDAB have developed imaging software to help researchers gain a deeper understanding of the progression of cancer on a cellular level, using Qt. Qi, KDAB and Qt have now taken their collaboration one step further by introducing nanoQuill, otherwise known as “The Coloring Book of Life,” which is a crowdsourced […]

KDAB has unique experience in porting the code base for toolkits like Qt 3, Qt 4, Motif, Java, Tcl, GTK, .NET, MFC, and Photon to Qt 5. Porting legacy GUI toolkits to Qt 5 is a job where proven experience saves a lot of time. In this presentation we highlight the main problems facing developers […]