{"id":2052972,"date":"2023-08-16T07:01:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T14:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2052972"},"modified":"2023-08-16T07:01:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T14:01:35","slug":"qml-api-deprecation-and-roadmap","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/sdk-qt\/announcements\/qml-api-deprecation-and-roadmap","title":{"rendered":"QML API Deprecation and Roadmap"},"author":3811,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37101],"tags":[768202],"industry":[],"product":[769152,36601],"class_list":["post-2052972","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-arcgis-maps-sdks-for-native-apps","product-sdk-qt","product-developers"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":3811,"user_firstname":"Nicholas","user_lastname":"Furness","nickname":"Nicholas Furness","user_nicename":"nfurness","display_name":"Nick Furness","user_email":"NFurness@esri.com","user_url":"http:\/\/developers.arcgis.com","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:15:26","user_description":"Nick Furness is a Product Manager for the ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps, and ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Game Engines, specializing in Swift and iOS. He's spent over 25 years working in the GIS space building projects ranging from small mom-and-pop solutions all the way up to enterprise utility and national government deployments. Nick presents at various Esri Developer Summits, the User Conference, and many other events, almost always talking about something to do with the Native Maps SDKs (although you might find the odd bit of JavaScript thrown in there).","user_avatar":""},{"ID":5171,"user_firstname":"Michael","user_lastname":"Branscomb","nickname":"Mike Branscomb","user_nicename":"mbranscomb","display_name":"Mike Branscomb","user_email":"MBranscomb@esri.com","user_url":"https:\/\/developers.arcgis.com\/","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:16:51","user_description":"Mike Branscomb is a Product Manager for the ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps and ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Game Engines. With over 20 years of experience working in the Esri ecosystem, he specializes in .NET, Local Server, and 3D Scene Layers. Mike is also a Scrum Product Owner with over 10 years of experience guiding teams through the product development lifecycle.","user_avatar":""},{"ID":4091,"user_firstname":"Rex","user_lastname":"Hansen","nickname":"Rex Hansen","user_nicename":"rex-hansen","display_name":"Rex Hansen","user_email":"rhansen@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:15:41","user_description":"Rex Hansen is a Product Manager for the ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Native Apps and ArcGIS Maps SDKs for Game Engines. He has over 25 years of experience in GIS, spatial analytics, and computer mapping. Currently, he guides the development of native technologies in the GIS industry to use authoritative geospatial content and analysis in offline workflows, photorealistic experiences, and immersive, extended reality solutions.","user_avatar":""},{"ID":5871,"user_firstname":"Chris","user_lastname":"LeSueur","nickname":"Chris LeSueur","user_nicename":"clesueur","display_name":"Chris LeSueur","user_email":"clesueur@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:17:41","user_description":"Chris LeSueur is a Sr. Product Manager for ArcGIS Survey123 and ArcGIS QuickCapture. Chris has over 25 yrs experience in the GIS industry working in various positions in Technical Marketing, Competitive Intelligence, and Product Management. As a product manager Chris works to broaden the reach of GIS by improving the experience of mobile field data collection.","user_avatar":""}],"short_description":"Announcing the deprecation of the QML API portion of the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

For many years, ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt and ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Qt have provided two different APIs to target different backgrounds and skillsets: a QML API and a C++ API. Today with the 200.2 release of ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt, we are announcing the deprecation of the QML API, as we focus our efforts on building the best GIS SDK available in the Qt ecosystem with our C++ API.<\/p>\n

C++ API<\/h3>\n

The C++ API has been around since the product\u2019s inception and is the most versatile and powerful way to build a Qt application. It allows for fully cross platform apps to be built using QML for the UI (User Interface) and C++ for the business logic, or less commonly, desktop apps to be built purely with C++ using Qt Widgets.<\/p>\n

Separating the UI and business logic follows best practice recommendations from Qt Group, and gives you access to all the powerful APIs provided to Qt via C++ and the various underlying native platforms. We have had many Esri customers and system integrators find overwhelming success with this API over the years, and this API remains firmly entrenched in our product plan going forward.<\/p>\n

QML API<\/h3>\n

The QML API was originally built with AppStudio for ArcGIS in mind, with the goal of making native app development easy for individuals with some web development and scripting experience. Making this experience come to life hinged heavily on AppStudio, which provided templates to get started, extensive tooling to aid in building, testing, and deploying apps, and additional APIs to make the best native experiences possible.<\/p>\n

Due to a variety of changes in the app development space, AppStudio has announced retiremen<\/a>t, and as such, we will also deprecate the QML API from the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Support and Retirement Plan<\/h3>\n

ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt version 200.2 will be the last release to include new features in the QML API, and 200.4 will be the last release to include the QML API. 200.5 and all subsequent releases will only include the C++ API.<\/p>\n

The QML API will continue to be supported for several years and will follow the product life cycle outlined by Esri Support:<\/p>\n