Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook

Book excerpt: Use Qt 5 to design and build functional, appealing, and user-friendly graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for your applications. Key FeaturesLearn to use Qt 5 to design and customize the look and feel of your applicationImprove the visual quality of an application by using graphics rendering and animationUnderstand the balance of presentation and web content that will make an application appealing yet functionalBook Description With the growing need to develop GUIs for multiple targets and multiple screens, improving the visual quality of your application becomes important so that it stands out from your competitors. With its cross-platform ability and the latest UI paradigms, Qt makes it possible to build intuitive, interactive, and user-friendly user interfaces for your applications. Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition teaches you how to develop functional and appealing user interfaces using the latest version of QT5 and C++. This book will help you learn a variety of topics such as GUI customization and animation, graphics rendering, implementing Google Maps, and more. You will also be taken through advanced concepts like asynchronous programming, event handling using signals and slots, network programming, various aspects of optimizing your application. By the end of the book, you will be confident to design and customize GUI applications that meet your clients' expectations and have an understanding of best practice solutions for common problems. What you will learnAnimate GUI elements using Qt5's built-in animation systemDraw shapes and 2D images using Qt5's powerful rendering systemImplement an industry-standard OpenGL library in your projectBuild a mobile app that supports touch events and exports it onto devicesParse and extract data from an XML file and present it on your GUIInteract with web content by calling JavaScript functions from C++Access MySQL and SQLite databases to retrieve data and display it on your GUIWho this book is for This intermediate-level book is designed for those who want to develop software using Qt 5. If you want to improve the visual quality and content presentation of your software application, this book is for you. Prior experience of C++ programming is required.