Creating a Qt Quick project
This chapter will follow the same project structure we covered in Chapter 4, Conquering the Desktop UI: a parent project ch05-gallery-mobile.pro
will host our two subprojects, gallery-core
and the new gallery-mobile
.
In Qt creator, you can create a Qt Quick subproject from File | New File or Project | Application | Qt Quick Controls Application | Choose.
The wizard will allow you to customize your project creation:
Location
Choose a project name (
gallery-mobile
) and a location
Details
Deselect With ui.qml file
Deselect Enable native styling
Kits
Select your desktop kit
Select at least one mobile kit
Summary
Be sure to add gallery-mobile as a subproject of
ch05-gallery-mobile.pro
Let's take some time to explain why we created our project with these options.
The first thing to analyze is the application template. By default, Qt Quick only provides basic QML components (Rectangle
, Image
, Text
, and so on). Advanced components will be handled by Qt Quick modules. For this project...