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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

Looking inside – Qt's introspection support

Several years ago I was tasked with writing a C# based application. My pride as a C++ programmer of over two decades at that point told me two things—firstly, I won't like a petty Microsoft(tm) language like C#, and secondly, if I were to write a C# program, it would be very easy to learn as it must be like C++. I was wrong, on both counts. C# is much more like Java than C++, and it has become a feature-packed language with lots of cool things.

One of the things I enjoyed the most was introspection, or the ability to look into a class at runtime and find out what attributes and methods it has. That is something not even C++17 has, and this lowly C# language already had it! (There is a good chance we will see some introspection support directly in C++20, but it's not final yet.)

The trolls that developed Qt...