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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

Rolling your own – custom embedded Linux


 Yocto has a history and got its start from the OpenEmbedded project. The OpenEmbedded project got its name in the programming world from the OpenZaurus project. At that time, I was involved with OpenZaurus and projects surrounding that, with the original focus being the Sharp Zaurus that ran Trolltech's Qtopia using a different operating system. OpenZaurus was an open source replacement OS that users could flash onto their devices. The evolution of the build system went from being the Makefile-based Buildroot to being displaced by BitBake. 

You can, of course, build Poky or Yocto for this section. I am going to use the Boot2Qt configurations.

To get started with Yocto so that you can customize it, make a base image by using the following command:

bitbake core-image-minimal

This will take quite a bit of time.

The basic customization procedure would be the same as customizing Boot to Qt, regarding adding layers and recipes, as well as customizing already...