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Hands-On Mobile and Embedded Development with Qt 5

By : Lorn Potter
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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

Contributors

About the author

Lorn Potter is a software developer, specializing in Qt and QML on mobile and embedded devices with his company, llornkcor technologies. He has worked for Trolltech, Nokia, Canonical, and was a freelance contractor for Jolla, Intopalo, and the Qt Company. He is the official maintainer of Qt Sensors, for which he developed the QSensorGestures API. He maintains the unsupported QtSystemInfo for the open source Qt Project and also works on Qt Bearer Management and Qt for WebAssembly. He has written blogs and articles for the Linux Journal. He started his career in tech as Trolltech's Qtopia Community Liaison. He currently resides in Australia and spends his spare time recording electronic psybient music for the project Brog on his website.

About the reviewer

Mickael Minarie is a software developer who graduated from University of Clermont Ferrand with a BSc in embedded systems, and from Robert Gordon University with a BSc in computer science. He has worked freelance, developing some programs in C++/Qt for embedded systems and other programs related to photos and videos.

He lives now in France, but stayed for some years in the UK and Canada. He is enthusiastic about the techniques and history of photography and audio recording, and he now runs a YouTube channel discussing these subjects (in French only, for now). Mickael has also created some small projects for companies using Raspberry Pi and Qt in connection with photography.

 

 

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