Using Qt Creator to cross-compile and debug Raspberry Pi Qt5 apps

Have you ever wonder how to setup Qt Creator in your powerful workstation to develop Qt apps that can be deployed and tested in your Raspberry Pi (reachable from such workstation)?

Qt Creator Google Test plugin

Are you already taking advantage of Google Test, Google's C++ test framework while developing applications with Qt?  Right. Aren't you? Well, you should. The good news is this plugin simplifies the integration within Qt Creator IDE.

Qt and native libraries for Android

While developing applications for Android with Qt and Qt Creator, please be aware that Android does not support versioned shared libraries, so in case you need to build the library yourself, you may end up changing the build process a little so to avoid versioning.

New book "Application Development with Qt Creator, 2nd Edition" available

I found the book interesting for people new to Qt, since it uses Qt Creator to drive the reader through different aspects of developing a Qt application, both using the old approach of C++ API or the newer Qt Quick feature.

The book provides several examples, and even when I don't recommend it for experienced Qt developers, some of them with minimal or no exposure to Android application development, could still find the Qt/Android related information of some value.

Wrapping up, a good book for new comers to Qt, and likely useful for advanced users who are discovering some parts of Qt, like QML or Android.

Happy reading and coding!

The selected build of GDB does not support Python scripting.It cannot be used in Qt Creator.

If you are trying to debug an application within Qt Creator under Linux (specifically under Ubuntu) it is very likely you have GDB installed without support for Python scripting. i.e. package gdb-minimal).

Project ERROR: You need to set the ANDROID_NDK_ROOT environment variable

If you received such error message when build a Qt application for Android within Qt Creator, the simple solution is to export the ANDROID_NDK_ROOT environment variable pointing to the folder where you have uncompressed the Android NDK bundle. Then run Qt Creator again and the build should continue without issues.

Qt 5.2.1 released, the first patch release for the Qt 5.2 series

The guys at Digia listened to the feedback received from the Qt Enterprise and Qt Mobile customers as well as the whole Qt community, so they announced the release of Qt 5.2.1, the first patch release for the Qt 5.2 series, providing many improvements.

On your mark, get set, Qt 5.2 released!

Qt 5.2 was released a couple of weeks ago, just in advance of the holidays, being the most feature rich version so far.

Qt 5.1.1 released, the first patch release for the Qt 5.1 series

The guys at Digia were quite busy after Qt 5.1.0 and now they announced the release of Qt 5.1.1, the first patch release for the Qt 5.1 series.

Don't let Qt Creator foolish you while creating Android projects

If you are using Qt Creator before 2.8.x and you like to create a new project for Android, please take into account that the "Mobile Application" kit is a left-over from older Qt versions, and should not be used anymore. In Qt Creator 2.8.x it has been removed to avoid this confusion. So you just use any of the usual templates such as "Qt GUI Application", "Qt Quick 2 Application" or "Empty Qt Project".