I've only used Cordova for cross platform mobile app development, I want to try Qt, has anyone used it before? Would you recommend it? Thanks.

Never used Cordova or any other mobile application framework besides Qt so I am not sure how Qt compares against other frameworks. I primarily decided to use Qt, because I had experience with Qt (did a pretty big project with pyqt, worked out pretty well) and I love their framework. They have a really well documentation and a great community.

In my experience however the mobile part of Qt is still in it's early stages...there aren't that many people that use Qt for mobile applications, so if you want to do something tricky you most probably have to figure it out yourself ;-). What I really like about Qt is, that you can run the UI and most of the other parts of your application natively on your development machine (i.e without an Android emulator). This is a really big timer saver. If there is really platform specific code that you need to implement you can always ifdef between those targets.

So all in all I think Qt is a solid framework (although I ranted about it yesterday ;-))

As you have tried both Qt and Xamarian, why do you prefer Xamarian? I never tried Xamarian but I really like that Qt is making some really great progress with their mobile part (especially Qt 5.6 and Qt 5.7 introduced some nice things).

@schluchti thanks for the information! one main reason why I was considering qt was because it runs on python. I'm not very good with web dev stuff.

@irilias Thanks!!