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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

Chapter 15. Building a Linux System

Building your own Linux system for use on an embedded device can be an overwhelming task. Knowing what software is needed to get the stack up and running; knowing what the software dependencies are; finding the software to download and downloading it; configuring, building, and packaging all of that software—it could literally take weeks of time. It used to back in the good old days. Now, there are some great tools to facilitate building a custom Linux filesystem. You can be up and running on an embedded device within a day, if you have a machine powerful enough.

Prototyping is always the first step in device creation. Having the correct tools will streamline this process. Embedded systems need to boot fast and directly into a Qt application, such as an automotive instrument cluster. In this chapter, you will learn about creating a full software stack for embedded Linux systems using Yocto and Boot to Qt for Device Creation. A Raspberry Pi device will be...