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Hands-On Embedded Programming with Qt

By : John Werner
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Hands-On Embedded Programming with Qt

By: John Werner

Overview of this book

Qt is an open source toolkit suitable for cross-platform and embedded application development. This book uses inductive teaching to help you learn how to create applications for embedded and Internet of Things (IoT) devices with Qt 5. You’ll start by learning to develop your very first application with Qt. Next, you’ll build on the first application by understanding new concepts through hands-on projects and written text. Each project will introduce new features that will help you transform your basic first project into a connected IoT application running on embedded hardware. In addition to gaining practical experience in developing an embedded Qt project, you will also gain valuable insights into best practices for Qt development and explore advanced techniques for testing, debugging, and monitoring the performance of Qt applications. The examples and projects covered throughout the book can be run both locally and on an embedded platform. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to use Qt 5 to confidently develop modern embedded applications.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Getting Started with Embedded Qt
5
Section 2: Working with Embedded Qt
10
Section 3: Deep Dive into Embedded Qt
14
Section 4: Advanced Techniques and Best Practices
Appendix A: BigProject Requirements

Introducing Qt Creator

There is a lot to Qt Creator, but for now, I just want to give you an overview. We will devote a section later in this book to looking at some of Qt Creator's advanced capabilities.

Qt Creator is the cross-platform IDE for developing Qt applications. It supports code editing and development in C++, JavaScript, QML, XML, HTML, and other languages. It can create and edit QMake project (.pro) files for both simple and complex projects. You can use it to visually design user interfaces. It works directly with version control systems such as Mecurial, Git, and SVN. It executes compilation, and it even does source-level debugging. It also does static C++ code analysis with Clang!

It is a very complete, fast, IDE written in Qt for developing Qt GUI and console applications along with Qt plugins and libraries.

With such a powerful IDE, you would expect that...