14 DAY TRIAL // After announcing the release of the Qt 5.10 open-source application framework, The Qt Company released version 4.5.0 of its Qt Creator IDE (Integrated Development Environment) app.
Available for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows platforms, the Qt Creator 4.5 release comes three months after the previous version to add a new UI tool that lets you manage Android SDK packages, as well as to offer better information about various issues with the installed Android SDK, including warnings about missing components or the minimum version of requirements.
"Since Android SDK tools version 25.3.0, there is no UI tool available to manage the Android SDK packages. Because of that, we have added such UI to Qt Creator," Eike Ziller wrote in the release announcement. "Unfortunately, the command line tool for managing SDKs that is provided with the SDK cannot update packages on Windows, and fails with JDK 9, so this applies to Qt Creator as well."
Local deployment and Ant are no longer supported
Starting with Qt Creator 4.5, local deployments and Ant are no longer supported by the application as they've been deprecated for some time now. On the other hand, the CMake support was improved with grouping of variables by prefix in the configuration UI in the Projects mode, handling of external configuration changes, and the ability to change variables' type or unset those added by mistake.
The change notification has been updated as well to display detailed information about how the cached values vary from the values stored on locally, support for the File System navigation pane to display a file system tree and to allow you to select the root directory from a list that contains the "computer" root, and detection of Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 was improved for Windows OSes.
For Apple's iOS mobile operating system, Qt Creator 4.5 changes the mechanism for switching between simulator device types with the latest Xcode 9 IDE. The Locator has been updated as well to do fuzzy camel case matching similar to code completion, and the "Sort Selection" external tool is now implemented internally under Edit -> Advanced -> Sort Selected Lines.
You can download Qt Creator 4.5.0 for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems through our website as sources and binaries, but the new version is also available as an online update for those using Qt Creator 4.4.1. For more details about all the changes implemented in Qt Creator 4.5, don't hesitate to check out the complete changelog.