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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

Qt Quick Controls 2 button, button, who's got the button?


For a while in the life of Qt Quick, there were only basic components, such as Rectangle and Text. Developers had to create their own implementations of buttons, dials, and just about every common UI item. As it matured, it also grew elements such as Window and even Sensor elements. There were always rumblings about having a set of common UI elements available. Eventually, common UI elements were released.

Spotlight on Qt Quick Controls. No more having to create your own buttons and other components, yay! And developers rejoiced!

Then, they found a better way to do things and released Qt Quick Controls 2!

Note

Qt Quick Controls comes in two versions, Qt Quick Controls and Qt Quick Controls 2. Qt Quick Controls (the original one) has been depreciated by Qt Quick Controls 2. Any new use of these components should use Qt Quick Controls 2. 

You can access all kinds of common UI elements, including the following: 

  • Buttons
  • Containers
  • Input
  • Menu
  • Radio...