Microsoft Windows has a long history of embedded operating systems going back to 1996, branded as Windows Embedded Compact, Windows Embedded CE, Windows CE, Windows Compact, Windows Phone, Windows Runtime, and an assortment of others. One of these fine platforms might even form the basis of your embedded product. Trouble is, with the shiny new […]
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Qt on Android: How to create a zero-copy Android SurfaceTexture QML item
Motivation: Android SurfaceTexture is used by all Android classes that need to display (a lot of) frames, it can be used to display media player, camera, etc. You can also use it in combination with other players: OpenMAX, VLC, etc. (well, VLC and other C++ player are using MediaCodec) to decode the images directly to […]
Qt on Android: How to run C++ code on Android UI thread Useful features you need on Android that don't have a Qt API
I’d like to start a new series of Qt on Android articles, these will be small articles which will focus on useful features that you’ll need on Android but which don’t have any Qt API (yet). I’ll start with two pretty useful functions. These functions will help us to run C++ code directly on Android […]
Qt on Android Episode 7 How to access and use Android Java API using JNI in a safe way.
Update: Here you have also the Chinese version, thanks goes to Foruok In the last two Qt on Android episodes we learned how to use basic JNI on Android and how to use an external IDE to easily manage the Java part. In this episode, it is time to move forward and focus on extending […]
iOS video rendering
The multimedia layer in Qt has possibilities for streaming video in QtQuick applications. On iOS there is a limitation: QtMultimedia only supports window-level integration. We decided to fix this.
Qt on Android Episode 6 - How to use Android Studio to extend and debug the Java part of your Qt application
Update: Here you have also the Chinese version, thanks goes to Foruok In the last Qt on Android episode we learned the basics of JNI on Android in a Qt way. In this episode I’d like to focus on tools that will help us to be more productive when we extend our Qt on Android applications. […]
The current state of Windows Embedded Compact(WEC) platform support in Qt
It has been very quiet around WEC platform support in Qt, and you would have been forgiven for thinking that nothing was happening. But behind the scenes, we have been tackling some pretty hard issues. We just did not blog about the ongoing work……until now. Be assured that the platform is still maintained and there […]
Running QtQuick Applications on the Web
QML is the language that makes writing Qt application UIs easier than ever before. QmlWeb now brings this ease to the web. Traditionally desktop applications were written in languages like C or C++. Web technologies like HTML and PHP were mainly used to write static websites. With the rise of modern web applications and technologies […]
Qt on Android Tutorial Step by step video tutorial
Qt on Android Tutorial (please adjust volume / low sound): Abstract: The tutorial will start with instructions on how to setup the development environment, how to configure QtCreator and ensuring that all dependencies are met. It will then continue with a live demonstration on creating an app, deploying it to an Android device and […]
Qt3D 2.0 The FrameGraph
Continuing our blog post series about the rewrite of Qt3D. Introduction For quite some time now, you’ve been hearing about Qt3D’s Framegraph. Although a brief definition of what the Framegraph is was given in the previous articles, this blog post will cover it in more detail. After reading this post, you will understand the difference […]