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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

Deployment for iOS


The iOS store is perhaps the most restrictive and complicated of all the mobile app stores to submit an app to. It also has more exhaustive submission guidelines, such as: it should not replicate the functionality of native applications. The process to get to the point of submitting an app is also more complicated.

The package

Qt Creator comes with support for creating and signing iOS packages. As with Android, you will need certificates from your developer account. This is what you see when you log into the developer account at Apple:

Once in your developer account, click on the icon labelled Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles to add certificates. Notice the list under Certificates at the left:

There are two types of CertificatesDevelopment and Production. Production certificates are for release distribution. If you do not have Production certificates, add one now by clicking on the + icon:

That will open up the following dialog:

Select App Store and Ad Hoc. Ad Hocmeans...