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Hands-On Mobile and Embedded Development with Qt 5

By : Lorn Potter
Book Image

Hands-On Mobile and Embedded Development with Qt 5

By: Lorn Potter

Overview of this book

Qt is a world-class framework, helping you to develop rich graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and multi-platform applications that run on all major desktop platforms and most mobile or embedded platforms. The framework helps you connect the dots across platforms and between online and physical experience. This book will help you leverage the fully-featured Qt framework and its modular cross-platform library classes and intuitive APIs to develop applications for mobile, IoT, and industrial embedded systems. Considerations such as screen size, device orientation changes, and small memory will be discussed. We will focus on various core aspects of embedded and mobile systems, such as connectivity, networking, and sensors; there is no IoT without sensors. You will learn how to quickly design a flexible, fast, and responsive UI that looks great. Going further, you will implement different elements in a matter of minutes and synchronize the UI elements with the 3D assets with high precision. You will learn how to create high-performance embedded systems with 3D/2D user interfaces, and deploy and test on your target hardware. The book will explore several new features, including Qt for WebAssembly. At the end of this book, you will learn about creating a full software stack for embedded Linux systems using Yocto and Boot to Qt for Device Creation.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Drivers are database backends


Qt supports a variety of database drivers or backends to the databases. The backends wrap the various system databases and allow Qt to have a unified API frontend. Qt supports the following database types:

Database types

Software

QDB2

IBM Db2

QIBASE

Borland InterBase

QMYSQL

MySQL

QOCI

Oracle Call Interface

QODBC

ODBC

QPSQL

PostgreSQL

QSQLITE

SQLite version 3 or above

QSQLITE2

SQLite version 2

QTDS

Sybase Adaptive Server

 

We will be looking into QMYSQL type, since it supports remote access. MySQL can be installed on Raspberry Pi. QSQLITE3 can be shared on a network resource and made to support remote access, and iOS and Android have support for SQLite.