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Hands-On Mobile and Embedded Development with Qt 5

You're reading from   Hands-On Mobile and Embedded Development with Qt 5 Build apps for Android, iOS, and Raspberry Pi with C++ and Qt

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789614817
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Making Great UIs FREE CHAPTER
2. Standard Qt Widgets 3. Fluid UI with Qt Quick 4. Graphical and Special Effects 5. Input and Touch 6. Section 2: Networking, Connectivity, Sensors, and Automation
7. Qt Network for Communication 8. Connectivity with Qt Bluetooth LE 9. Machines Talking 10. Where Am I? Location and Positioning 11. Section 3: Other APIs Qt SQL, Qt Multimedia, and Qt Purchasing
12. Sounds and Visions - Qt Multimedia 13. Remote Databases with Qt SQL 14. Enabling In-App Purchases with Qt Purchasing 15. Section 4: Mobile Deployment and Device Creation
16. Cross Compiling and Remote Debugging 17. Deploying to Mobile and Embedded 18. Universal Platform for Mobiles and Embedded Devices 19. Building a Linux System 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

QMqtt – Brokers of machine talk

MQTT is a publish-and-subscribe messaging transport. There was a similar framework in the Qt Mobility stack called Publish and Subscribe, which is now part of the officially unsupported QSystems API framework, which also includes QSystemInfo and QSystemFramework.

QMqtt is a framework for writing MQTT clients. You will need to install and run an MQTT broker, such as Mosquitto or HiveMQ, or use an internet-based service. For my development and testing purposes, I chose HiveMQ. You can download it from https://www.hivemq.com/.

They also have a public broker at http://www.mqtt-dashboard.com/index.html.

MQTT has a broker, or server that one or more clients connect to. The clients can then publish and/or subscribe to different topics.

You can use QWebSockets to access a broker, and there is an example in Qt, which uses the WebSocketIODevice...

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