RIM reaffirmed its continued support for Qt in its BlackBerry 10 platform, following Nokia’s recent decision to end its involvement with the technology. In a blog post, it said that “while the formal side of Qt is a little foggy right now, we want our community to rest assured that Qt on BlackBerry is here to stay”.

Alec Saunders, VP of developer relations and ecosystem development for the troubled BlackBerry maker, used the company’s DevCon Europe conference earlier this year to state: “We intend to be the best Qt platform available for mobile development.”

RIM provides a port of Qt to run on its PlayBook tablets and on planned BB10 smartphones, and it is also one of the “foundational pieces” of its Cascades application framework. The company said that “the fact that Qt is an open source project has allowed us to both embed it as a core technology layered on top of the POSIX compliant QNX RTOS, as well as contribute changes back to the project”.

It continued: “RIM continues to support the Qt community and we are committed to supporting Qt on the BlackBerry platform, including tight collaboration with the Qt community outside of Nokia and with Digia as new potential owner of Qt.”