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Hands-On Embedded Programming with Qt

By : John Werner
Book Image

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
1
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

Summary

The goal of this chapter was to run our application on the Target. Hopefully, you were able to run it successfully.

The first thing we learned was how to configure Qt Creator for cross-compilation. This process can be applied to any system where you need to do cross-compilation, not just with our Target. We then learned how to deploy (or transfer) our code to the Target.

Once we had deployed our code, we learned another way of starting the code on the Target that did not require Qt Creator. We also saw how easy it was to start debugging code on the Target.

Finally, we learned a little about Qt's layout system for GUIs. It allowed us to make the display look good both on the Host and the Target, even though they had different screen sizes.

You should now know enough to be able to run some of the examples that came with Qt 5.12.0 on the Target. Try it!

In the Chapter...