The continuous growth of the computer software market leads to a very competitive and challenging era. Not only does your software need to be functional and easy to use, it must also look appealing and professional to the users. In order to gain an upper hand and a competitive advantage over other software products in the market, the look and feel of your product is of utmost importance and should be taken care of early in the production stage. In this book, we will teach you how to create a functional, appealing, and user friendly software using the Qt5 development platform.
Chapter 1, Look and Feel Customization, shows how to design your program's user interface using both the Qt Designer as well as the Qt Quick Designer.
Chapter 2, States and Animations, explains how to animate your user interface widgets by empowering the state machine framework and the animation framework.
Chapter 3, QPainter and 2D Graphics, covers how to draw vector shapes and bitmap images on screen using Qt's built-in classes.
Chapter 4, OpenGL Implementation, demonstrates how to render 3D graphics in your program by integrating OpenGL in your Qt project.
Chapter 5, Building a Touch Screen Application with Qt5, explains how to create a program that works on a touch screen device.
Chapter 6, XML Parsing Made Easy, shows how to process data in the XML format and use it together with the Google Geocoding API to create a simple address finder.
Chapter 7, Conversion Library, covers how to convert between different variable types, image formats, and video formats using Qt's built-in classes as well as third-party programs.
Chapter 8, Accessing Databases, explains how to connect your program to an SQL database using Qt.
Chapter 9, Developing a Web Application Using Qt Web Engine, covers how to use the web rendering engine provided by Qt and develop programs that empower the web technology.