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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
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

Starting our BigProject

Everything we have done has led to this point—we now have a basis to start a project that we will be building on and learning with for the rest of this book.

All projects start with a set of requirements. So, let's see what we can come up with.

BigProject customer requirements

After a five-minute meeting with the product and sales managers, I was able to confirm these requirements. It's not much, but it is all that we have for now, and we already have a completion date (yes—once again, the sales manager already told a key customer that it is available, so now we have to make him look good):

  • Customer Requirement 1: The device shall display the current date and time
  • Customer Requirement...