What this book covers

Chapter 1, Creating Your First Qt Application, takes you through the fundamental concepts of Qt, such as signals and slots, and helps you create your first Qt and Qt Quick applications.

Chapter 2, Building a Beautiful Cross-platform Clock, teaches you how to read and write configurations and handle cross-platform development.

Chapter 3, Cooking an RSS Reader with Qt Quick, demonstrates how to develop a stylish RSS Reader in QML, which is a script language quite similar to JavaScript.

Chapter 4, Controlling Camera and Taking Photos, shows you how to access camera devices through the Qt APIs and make use of the status and menu bars.

Chapter 5, Extending Paint Applications with Plugins, teaches you how to make applications extendable and write plugins, by using the Paint application as as an example.

Chapter 6, Getting Wired and Managing Downloads, shows you how to utilize Qt's network module using the progress bar, as well as learning about threaded programming in Qt.

Chapter 7, Parsing JSON and XML Documents to Use Online APIs, teaches you how to parse JSON and XML documents in both Qt/C++ and Qt Quick/QML, which is essential to obtain data from online APIs.

Chapter 8, Enabling Your Qt Application to Support Other Languages, demonstrates how to make internationalized applications, translate strings using Qt Linguist, and then load translation files dynamically.

Chapter 9, Deploying Applications on Other Devices, shows you how to package and make your applications redistributable on Windows, Linux, and Android.

Chapter 10, Don't Panic When You Encounter These Issues, gives you some solutions and advice for common issues during Qt and Qt Quick application development and shows you how to debug Qt and Qt Quick applications.