Application Development with Qt Creator with the latest version of Qt Creator provides an in-depth understanding of Qt's massive library and its functionality. It will enable you to create better modern high-performance apps, exploring cross-platform development and much more.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright and Credits
• About Packt
• Contributors
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Section 1: The Basics
• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Qt Creator
  • Technical requirements
  • Downloading Qt and Qt Creator
  • New features in Qt
  • Finding your way around Qt Creator
  • Your first application – Hello World
  • Hello World using the Qt Widgets library
    • Placing widgets in Qt Designer
  • Hello World using Qt Quick
  • Summary
• Chapter 2: Building Applications with Qt Creator
  • Technical requirements
  • Getting started – our sample library
  • Learning the landscape – the Build menu and the .pro file
  • Linking against our sample library
  • Getting lost and found again – debugging
    • Setting breakpoints and stepping through your program
    • Examining variables and memory
    • Examining the call stack
  • The Projects pane and building your project
  • A review – running and debugging your application
  • Summary
• Chapter 3: Designing Your Application with Qt Designer
  • Technical requirements
  • Introducing signals and slots
  • Creating user interfaces with Qt Designer
    • Creating the main form
    • Using application resources
  • Instantiating forms, message boxes, and dialogs in your application
  • Wiring the Qt Widgets application logic
    • Learning more about Qt Widgets
  • Introducing Qt Quick's support for declarative user interface development
  • Understanding the building of a Qt application
  • Creating the Qt application
    • The calculator's main view
    • Learning more about Qt Quick and QML
  • Summary
• Chapter 4: Qt Foundations
  • Technical requirements
  • Representing data using Qt's core classes
    • Working with key-value pairs
  • Multithreading in Qt
  • Accessing files using Qt
  • Accessing HTTP resources using Qt
    • Performing HTTP requests
  • Parsing XML using Qt
    • Using XML parsing with HTTP
    • Implementing WorkerThread
  • Parsing JSON using Qt
  • Summary
• Chapter 5: Developing Applications with Qt Widgets
  • Technical requirements
  • Your main application and its menus
  • Creating simple Qt Widgets
  • Managing the widget layout with layouts
  • Model-View-Controller programming with Qt
    • Analyzing a concrete model subclass
    • Using the MVC model on Qt Creator
  • Rendering web content with QWebEngineView
  • Using the model editor
  • Enabling LSP on your Qt Creator
  • Summary
• Section 2: Advanced Features
• Chapter 6: Drawing with Qt
  • Technical requirements
  • Starting to draw in Qt
  • Drawing with QPainter on QPaintDevice instances
  • Drawing off screen
  • Creating custom widgets
  • Introducing the Graphics View framework
  • Summary
• Chapter 7: Doing More with Qt Quick
  • Technical requirements
  • Understanding the fundamental concepts of Qt Quick
  • Using states and transitions in Qt Quick
  • Integrating Qt Quick and C++
  • Putting it all together – an image gallery application
  • Introducing the new Qt Quick Controls 2
  • Understanding the new graphical editor for SCXML
  • Summary
• Chapter 8: Implementing Multimedia with Qt Quick
  • Technical requirements
  • Implementing multimedia in Qt
  • Playing audio clips and sound effects
  • Playing video clips
  • Accessing the camera
  • Summary
• Chapter 9: Sensors and Qt Quick
  • Technical requirements
  • Accessing sensors in Qt
  • Determining device location
  • Obtaining a device's position
  • Placing a position marker on a Map View
  • Accessing sensors with C++
  • Summary
• Section 3: Practical Matters
• Chapter 10: Localizing Your Application with Qt Linguist
  • Technical requirements
  • Understanding the task of localization
  • Marking strings for localization
  • Localizing your application with QLinguist
    • Including localized strings in your application
  • Localizing special parameters – currencies and dates with QLocale
  • Summary
• Chapter 11: Optimizing Performance with Qt Creator
  • Technical requirements
  • Introducing QML performance analysis
    • QtSlowButton – a Qt Quick application in need of performance tuning
    • QtLeakyButton – a Qt C++ application in need of memory help
      • Detecting a memory leak on Linux using Valgrind
      • Detecting a memory leak on Windows using Visual Leak Detector
  • Introducing QML Profiler
  • Doing more with QML Profiler
  • Implementing test integration
    • Creating Qt and Qt Quick tests
    • Testing signals and slots using QSignalSpy
  • Adding better support for test integration
    • Creating Google tests
    • Creating Boost tests
  • Summary
• Chapter 12: Developing Mobile Applications with Qt Creator
  • Technical requirements
  • Understanding mobile software development
    • User attention is at a premium
    • Computational resources are at a premium
    • Network resources are at a premium
    • Storage resources are at a premium
    • To port or not to port?
    • A word on testing
  • Setting up Qt Creator for Android
    • Downloading all the pieces
    • Setting environment variables
    • Finishing the Android SDK installation
    • Configuring Qt Creator
    • Building and running your application
  • Deploying applications to Android devices
  • Setting up Qt Creator for iOS
  • Improving support for iOS and Android applications
    • Calling Android functions from Qt
    • Calling iOS functions from Qt
  • Summary
• Chapter 13: Embedded and IoT Development with Qt Creator
  • Technical requirements
  • Setting up an embedded Linux image
    • Registering the 30-day trial Qt commercial license 
    • Installing Qt components for device creation
    • Writing an embedded Linux image to a storage device
  • Building a cross-compiled Qt application
    • Automated cross-compile using Qt Creator
    • Manual cross-compile 
  • Configuring Qt for an embedded project
  • Writing your first embedded program
  • Deploying a Qt application to an embedded system
    • Automated deployment from Qt Creator
    • Manual deployment using SSH
  • Summary
• Chapter 14: Qt Tips and Tricks
  • Technical requirements
  • Writing console applications with Qt Creator
  • Integrating Qt Creator with version control systems
    • Setting up your GitHub repository
    • Setting up your GitLab repository
  • Configuring the coding style and coding format options
  • Applying new themes to Qt Creator
  • Setting the Qt Quick window display options
  • Building projects from CMake and the command line
    • Building using qmake
    • Building using CMake
  • Running multiple debuggers simultaneously
  • Learning more about Qt
  • Summary
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• Index