Qfield Presentation

## [RE]Discover QField[Cloud]
## Looking back at recent developments
## and what's to come

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## What is QField for QGIS?
## Your best field companion!

Whatever your field — forests, cities, heritage sites, disaster zones — QField helps you collect and manage the data that really counts. Fast, reliable, multilingual and open-source, QField brings the power of QGIS wherever your work takes you.

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🗺️ High precision location, tracking, geofencing, and full QGIS symbology, just like on desktop.

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📋 Create rich survey forms with constraints, logic, defaults, and validations — all in QGIS.

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📸 Photos, videos, audio, QR code scanning, and NFC — fully integrated.

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## What is QField for QGIS?
## More?!

✏️ Snap, reshape, freehand draw, edit vertices, and run field-based geometry operations.

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🧩 Extend QField with custom QML/JavaScript tools and workflows.

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☁️ Sync projects and data in real time with QFieldCloud and work with GeoPackages, KML, GPX, georeferenced PDFs, and more.

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## The last 24 months in review: August 2025
## Customized image stamping & plugin repository

QField 3.7 brings image stamping customization allowing for in-app branding of images. Plugins continue to evolve with a repository to ease installation.

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Other highlights include: fine grained layer permission system and vector tile identification.

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## The last 24 months in review: June 2025
## Feature form love & map canvas preview

QField 3.6 is released with a focus on feature form polishing to coincide with the release of the XLSForm Converter. Map canvas preview makes UX panning around much nicer.

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Other highlights include: map layer notes, feature identification on WMS/ArcMapService.

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## The last 24 months in review: March 2025
## Background positioning tracking

QField 3.5 unlocks a long awaited user feature: the ability to track their position while their phone is locked!

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Other highlights include: "forward" angle snapping, grid decorator, and WebDAV imports.

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## The last 24 months in review: October 2024
## Processing toolbox & geofencing

QField 3.4 makes its way into the public providing access to QGIS' processing toolbox algorithms while in the field as well as geofencing!

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Other highlights include: project variable editing, and a better in-app camera.

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## The last 24 months in review: June 2024
## Plugin framework landing & image sketching

QField 3.3 launches a new chapter with plugin framework and adds a long-sought feature: image sketching.

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Other highlights include: transfer of feature attributes and copy to clipboard, image decoration overlay, refinement to the side dashboard legend.

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## The last 24 months in review: April 2024
## Project-defined tracking session

QField 3.2 provides users and managers the ability to define tracking sessions within their project files.

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Other highlights include: undo/redo mechanism.

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## Beyond the features
## Documentation expanding

In the last year, tons of efforts spent on improving the documentation site (https://docs.qfield.org/) as well as making the growing amount of content accessible within QField itself.

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## What is QFieldCloud?
## Check out on app.qfield.cloud

☁️ Centralized project, data and settings management.

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🤝 Collaboration - users, organizations, teams.

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✏️ Data versioning.

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🧑‍💻 API integrations.

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## What about QFieldCloud?
## New features for all subscriptions

- **More storage with the same expense** - 3 times more storage, same monthly invoice.
- **Support virtual layers in community plan** - more functionality, more flexibility.

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## New QFieldCloud products

- **Dedicated installations** - your organization, our dedicated server, our expertise, just for you.
- **On-premises operations agreement** - your organization, your server, our expertise, just for you.

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## File storage

We implemented a new file storage backend, that was yet to be the largest single change of QFieldCloud ever.

- **Speed** - make file handling equally fast for both small and large projects.
- **Resticted project files** - limit who can change sensitive files.
- **Resumable large file downloads** - make downloading on unstable networks much more effient.
- **Allow uploads of files up to 20GB** - because spatial data is heavy.

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## Projects

- **Shared datasets** - upload your basemaps once, use it within all projects in your organization.
- **Attachments on demand** - don't overload your device with sometimes unnecessary attachments.

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## Secrets

- **Add organization level secrets** - having to declare the same secrets for each individual project was tiring.
- **Assign secrets to individual users** - best practices matter!

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## Single sign-on (SSO) support

- Dedicated/on-premises instances are ready to support **your** OIDC provider.

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## Upcoming features
## in QField 4.0

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## Project creation wizard
## within QField

New users and veterans will be able to create projects on the fly via a simple wizard.

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Newly-created projects as well as pre-existing ones can be converted to cloud projects in QField itself.

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## UI/UX polisihing
## and feature discoverability

The addition of a new pie menu and positiong jumping with infinity grid as well as button leaning on the main screen makes for a friendlier interface with key features such as tracking sessions easier to discover.

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## And plenty more

Other enhancements include WMS legend, tons of QFieldCloud polishing, copy/pasting of features across layers, and project localization.

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Plugin authors will also benefit from the addition of several key APIs allowing for vector layer creation as well as layer injection into projects.

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## What to expect from 
## QFieldCloud in 2026

- New plans, yearly payment and more payment methods.
- Resumable file uploads.
- New project creation options from the Web UI. 
- Template projects and project cloning.
- UI/UX polishing.

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## Thanks to
## our users and supporters!

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## And thank you for your time