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Hands-On Embedded Programming with Qt

By : John Werner
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Hands-On Embedded Programming with Qt

By: John Werner

Overview of this book

Qt is an open source toolkit suitable for cross-platform and embedded application development. This book uses inductive teaching to help you learn how to create applications for embedded and Internet of Things (IoT) devices with Qt 5. You’ll start by learning to develop your very first application with Qt. Next, you’ll build on the first application by understanding new concepts through hands-on projects and written text. Each project will introduce new features that will help you transform your basic first project into a connected IoT application running on embedded hardware. In addition to gaining practical experience in developing an embedded Qt project, you will also gain valuable insights into best practices for Qt development and explore advanced techniques for testing, debugging, and monitoring the performance of Qt applications. The examples and projects covered throughout the book can be run both locally and on an embedded platform. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to use Qt 5 to confidently develop modern embedded applications.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Embedded Qt
5
Section 2: Working with Embedded Qt
10
Section 3: Deep Dive into Embedded Qt
14
Section 4: Advanced Techniques and Best Practices
Appendix A: BigProject Requirements

Summary

Congratulations! You made it! This was a lot of material to cover, but it really forms the basis of working with Qt Creator and developing a widgets-based application. It also got you to write and debug a very simple Qt application.

As we worked our way through this chapter, we covered a fair amount of material. We began by learning how to start Qt Creator. We then learned how to navigate it.

Having learned how to get around Qt Creator, we started to write our first Qt Widget Application. First, we created a Qt Widget project, and then we created the display form. After that, we improved on the application and found a bug in the code during testing. I had not planned to teach debugging yet, but since I made a mistake when I wrote the code, we learned how to debug using Qt Creator and use the help system (like I did) to figure out what the problem was.

In working through...