Mastering Qt 5: Create stunning cross-platform applications - Paperback

by Guillaume Lazar (Author), Robin Penea (Author)

Master application development by writing succinct, robust, and reusable code with Qt 5

Key Features:

• Unleash the power of Qt 5 with C++14
• Integrate useful third-party libraries such as OpenCV
• Package and deploy your application on multiple platforms

Book Description:

Qt 5.7 is an application development framework that provides a great user experience and develops full-capability applications with Qt Widgets, QML, and even Qt 3D.

This book will address challenges in successfully developing cross-platform applications with the Qt framework. Cross-platform development needs a well-organized project. Using this book, you will have a better understanding of the Qt framework and the tools to resolve serious issues such as linking, debugging, and multithreading. Your journey will start with the new Qt 5 features. Then you will explore different platforms and learn to tame them. Every chapter along the way is a logical step that you must take to master Qt. The journey will end in an application that has been tested and is ready to be shipped.

What You Will Learn:

• Create stunning UIs with Qt Widget and Qt Quick
• Develop powerful, cross-platform applications with the Qt framework
• Design GUIs with the Qt Designer and build a library in it for UI preview
• Handle user interaction with the Qt signal/slot mechanism in C++
• Prepare a cross-platform project to host a third-party library
• Build a Qt application using the OpenCV API
• Use the Qt Animation framework to display stunning effects
• Deploy mobile apps with Qt and embedded platforms

Who this book is for:

This book will appeal to developers and programmers who would like to build GUI-based applications. Knowledge of C++ is necessary and the basics of Qt would be helpful.