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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

Deployment for Android


Android does not need Google Play Store to install apps; it's just most convenient. There are other marketplaces to choose from, such as Aptoid, Yandex, F-Droid, and Amazon.

You can also sideload apps. Sideloading is installing an app by transferring the package by USB, memory card, or over the internet, without the use of the official store.

Qt Creator technically can sideload the package of the application you are working on. It can install the package, or simply run the executable on the device without installing it.

Essentially, you can put a package file on your web server, have people download it to their phones or computers, and let them manually install it.

You could also make it available on Google Play Store, by officially publishing it. You need to be able to sign it with a certificate that you get from your developer account. This certificate for Android does not need to be signed by a certificate authority, but can be self-signed. 

The package

After developing...