GUI framework used to develop affinity software

[zazd]

Im curious, since the user interface is very fluid and beautiful, what gui framework has the affinity team used to develop the affinity photo and design desktop applications. Thanks!

[R C-R]

If I understand what the developers have said in the past about this correctly, they use the GUI provided by the OS as much as possible. The core code was developed from the beginning to be platform independent to make it easier to offer both OS X & Windows versions, & an iOS version in the near future.

[zazd]

Might involve QT5 

[Butler To Cats]

As R C-R stated, no GUI framework is used, so definitely not Qt5.

Core code with custom interface code for each platform.

 

In this post, TonyB reveals that C++ is mainly used, but the Mac front end is written in Objective C.

 

Not a professional programmer myself, but I assume this gives Serif more control and flexibility with their tool choices and code, rather than being locked into a specific tool-chain or framework. I assume it also limits bug-hunting to their own code and the OS-specific tools, rather than potentially including third-party GUI framework bugs.