C++ GUI Programming with Qt5: Practical recipes for cross-platform applications

The book "Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition" will teach you how to use Qt 5 to design and build functional, appealing, and user-friendly graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for your applications. 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, making the visual quality of your application becomes important so that it stands out from your competitors.

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.

You will learn to animate GUI elements using Qt5's built-in animation system, draw shapes and 2D images using Qt5's powerful rendering system, implement an industry-standard OpenGL library in your project, build a mobile app that supports touch events and exports it onto devices, parse and extract data from an XML file, present it on your GUI, interact with web content by calling JavaScript functions from C++, access MySQL and SQLite databases to retrieve data and display it on your GUI.

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.

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