Nice to hear, that QGIS could work on ARM too. 

> Am 23.06.2020 um 14:49 schrieb Saber Razmjooei 
> <[email protected]>:
> 
> 
> For https://inputapp.io we have put together an SDK to compile QGIS and all 
> its dependencies on iOS:
> https://github.com/lutraconsulting/input-sdk
> 
> It should be straightforward to use the sdk for full-blown QGIS on another 
> ARM based architecture.
> 
> Kind regards
> Saber
> 
> 
>> On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 11:07, Christoph Jung <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> Yesterday at the WWDC, Apple announced to switch from Intel-CPUs to their 
>> self designed ARM SoCs. My experiences as a software developer are in the 
>> field of Java, python and Swift (I try to keep distance to the heap, stack, 
>> pointers etc. ^^). Because of my lack of knowledge I am interested about to 
>> know, if Apples move to change the underlying platform of macOS will have an 
>> impact on QGIS running on this OS. Is the Qt-library the interface between 
>> the QGIS-Code and the CPU, so if a Qt-version could compile against the 
>> ARM-platform, QGIS will run without problems on an ARM-CPU? Could their a 
>> problem using libraries like gdal or Geos on an ARM-platform or have they to 
>> be build for this platform before using it? Maybe they already could be used 
>> on this paltform? Or maybe this will not to be a problem because everything 
>> will work a like a charm also on another platform (but I think this is 
>> unrealistic ^^)? I know that Apple users are the minority of the QGIS 
>> community and most users will not be effected by this problem. But as a 
>> passionate Mac- und QGIS-User and after reading the news about the 
>> conference yesterday, my first thought was: will QGIS run on the new 
>> platform?
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> Christoph
>> 
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