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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

Deploying for mobile and embedded devices


Really, deploying for mobile and embedded devices is only copying the resulting files from Emscripten built onto a CORS-enabled web server.

Any web browser that supports WebAssembly will be able to run it. 

Of course, there are considerations regarding screen size.

For testing, you can run your application using the emrun command from the Emscripten SDK. If you plan on testing from another device other than localhost, you will need to use the --hostname argument to set the IP address that it uses.

There are Python scripts for CORS-enabled web servers for testing as well. The Apache web server can also be configured to support CORS. 

There are five files that currently need to be deployed—qtloader.js, qtlogo.svg, <target>.html, <target>.js, and <target>.wasm. The .wasm file is the big WebAssembly binary, statically linked. Following are few suggestions to help you along with the process.