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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

Mapping the positions


We now need a map of some sort to show our location findings.

Note

The Map component for QML is the only way Qt provides for mapping, so you will have to use Qt Quick.

The Map component can be backed by various backend plugins. In fact, you need to specify which plugin you are using. Map has built-in support for the following plugins:

Provider

Key

Notes

Url

Esri

esri

Subscription required

www.esri.com

HERE

here

Access token required

developer.here.com/terms-and-conditions

Mapbox

mapbox

Access token required

www.mapbox.com/tos

Mapbox GL

mapboxgl

Access token required

www.mapbox.com/tos

Open Street Map (OSM)

osm

Free access

openstreetmap.org/

 

I will be using the OSM and HERE providers.

The HERE plugin requires an account at developer.here.com. It's easy to sign up and there is a free version. You need the app ID and app code to access their maps and API.

Map

To start using the Map component, in your chosen .qml file, add both QtLocation and QtPositioning in the import lines:

import QtLocation 5.12...