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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

Sensory control – QtSensor data


The Qt Sensors API started with Qt Mobility, which itself grew from Qtopia, which was later renamed Qt Extended.

Qt Mobility was a collection of APIs useful for mobile and embedded devices. It was intended specifically for use in Nokia phones. Some of the Mobility API was integrated into Qt 4 and later into Qt 5.

Qt Sensors, on the other hand, was put into its own repository when Qt 5 split into modules. Qt Sensors started out targeting mobile phone platforms, but as computers, such as laptops and Raspberry Pis, gained sensors, the backends expanded. You can find backends for iOS, Android, WinRT, generic Linux, Sensorfw, as well as Texas Instrument's SensorTag. At my GitHub repository, you can find additional sensor backends for Raspberry Pi Sense HAT, and MATRIX Creator for Raspberry Pi.

Sensor Framework (SensorFW) is a framework and backend for configuring and reading sensor data in a variety of ways. It is tried, tested, and used on some of the best alternative...