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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

Bearer Management of good news


Bearer Management was meant to facilitate user control over the network connections. There are open and close functions for found connections. One thing it does not do is actually configure these connections. They must already be configured by the system.

It is also meant to be able to group connections together to make it easier to smoothly switch between connections, such as migrating from Wi-Fi to mobile cellular data, somewhat like Media Independent Handover (MIH) or also Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) specification. If you are interested in an open source library to help with handovers, look at Open MIH at SourceForge.

At the time Qt's Bearer Management was first developed, Symbian was the most used and arguably the most important mobile OS. Symbian had the ability to seamlessly migrate connections between technologies without dropping the connection or data, kind of like the way mobile phone connections get migrated from cell tower to cell tower.

Apple seems...