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Oct 15, 2021
Libraries / Integrations
- SCodes (⭐66) 🐙 (⭐66) - Qt & QML wrapper for ZXing-C++ Library (⭐668) with ready-made QML items for decoding and generating 1D and 2D barcodes (aka. QR codes).
Blogs / New Functionality
- Scythe-Studio - Yet another consulting company specialized in Qt
- Qt Creator Cheat Sheet - Convenient document for improving your familiarity with Qt Creator IDE.
- Qt Installer Framework tutorial - Series about practical usage of Qt Installer framework with in-depth overview of different features.
- How to interface Qt with Android Java code - Getting wild and "native" with Android code in your Qt application.
- How to use NFC in Qt/Qml application? - Have you ever wondered how to use NFC in Qt/Qml application? This blog post will give you a complex overview of the concept of near-field communication technology with examples of its usage in real life.
Books / New Functionality
- Qt6 QML Book 🐙 (⭐209), by Johan Thelin, Jürgen Bocklage-Ryannel and Cyril Lorquet - Free book created by Qt Company. It provides you with a walk through of the different aspects of application development using the new Qt 6. It focuses on the Qt Quick technology, but also provides necessary information about writing C++ back-ends and extension for Qt Quick.
Software that Uses Qt / New Functionality
- Ultimaker Cura 🐙 (⭐4.2k) - Slicer application used to prepare your 3D models for printing with a 3D printer. Built with Uranium framework which is based on Qt 5 and Python 3.
Jul 09, 2021
Software that Uses Qt / New Functionality
- LMMS - Digital audio workstation.
- MuseScore - Music notation software.
- Shotcut - Video editor.
Nov 08, 2020
Software that Uses Qt / New Functionality
- Davinci Resolve - Non-linear video editing freeware with commercial plan used to create some Hollywood movies.
Feb 22, 2019
Libraries / New Functionality
- Felgo - Cross-platform game engine and app framework that relies heavily on QML. Has a lot of tools and resources, and may even deserve its own list.
Sep 24, 2018
Tools / Third-Party Tools
- Qompoter (⭐19) - Dependency manager for Qt / C++.
Oct 09, 2017
Software that Uses Qt / New Functionality
Aug 22, 2017
Libraries / New Functionality
- DiceParser (⭐108) 🐙 (⭐108) - Dice Roller framework based on its own syntax.
Software that Uses Qt / New Functionality
Mar 22, 2017
Libraries / Integrations
Books / New Functionality
- Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook, by Lee Zhi Eng 🐙 (⭐94) - Overview of advanced GUI programming techniques for those familiar (but not satisfied) with the basics. The source code used in the book is available for free.
Mar 20, 2017
Tools / Third-Party Tools
- linuxdeployqt (⭐1.7k) 🐙 (⭐1.7k) - Lets you bundle your Qt based application as an AppDir or AppImage, making it possible to ship it to users of many desktop Linux distributions. Similar to the official
windeployqtandmacdeployqttools but for Linux.
Mar 12, 2017
Software Repositories / New Functionality
- QtPods (⭐56) - Another Qt-centric package manager. If you want to see the offerings without using QtPods, the full list is available here (⭐4), and can be added to by submitting a pull request.
Software that Uses Qt / New Functionality
- Malwarebytes - Your Windows desktop's personal bodyguard.
- Telegram Desktop 🐙 (⭐20k) - Secure your conversations so well, you'll raise the blood pressure of potential eavesdroppers. The desktop client uses Qt and is open source.
- Wireshark 📦 - The most popular packet-sniffer out there. You are going to use this for good and not evil, right?
Jan 06, 2017
Software that Uses Qt / New Functionality
- Wolfram Mathematica - Programming language, symbolic calculator, and an engineer's best friend.
Dec 28, 2016
Communities / Official
- IRC - For real-time chat with other Qt developers and users. The most popular channels are on Freenode, and include
#qt,#qt-quick,#qt-creator, and#qt-chat.- For a full list of Qt-related IRC channels, see here.
- Note that the linked webchat client is not a part of the Qt project, and is provided by the author of this list for convenience only. These channels can be accessed through any IRC client.
Tools / Official Tools
- Qt Installer Framework 🐙 (⭐147) - Nobody seems to talk about this, but Qt also provides a way to write an installer for your application. Does not support creation of macOS disk images, app bundles, or Linux packages, so be mindful of that when considering your project's distribution.
macdeployqt🐙 (⭐125) - Generates macOS application bundles for Qt projects.
- qmake 🐙 (⭐1.8k) - The bundled build system designed for Qt, though it can be used for non-Qt projects.
qtdiag🐙 (⭐125) - Command-line tool that prints out a lot of information pertaining to both your Qt installation and your system in general. No link because there's no dedicated web page; just runqtdiagon the command line. Excellent for troubleshooting.
qmleasing🐙 (⭐146) - Lets you make easing curves suitable for QML, though if you understand the underlying math there's no reason you couldn't use the resulting numbers elsewhere.
Tools / Third-Party Tools
- moc-ng (⭐185) 🐙 (⭐185) - Alternative implementation of
mocthat's binary-compatible with Qt's version.
- Qt-Inspector (⭐350) 🐙 (⭐350) - Inspection tool with similar goals to GammaRay, though much simpler.
Bindings in Other Languages / Third-Party Tools
- Mono/.NET languages (via QtSharp) (⭐557) 🐙 (⭐557) - Experimental wrapper for Qt that allows it to be used by .NET-based languages such as C#. Young, but active.
Libraries / Integrations
- QScintilla 📦 - Absurdly versatile and customizable text editor widget that provides syntax highlighting, code completion, code folding, recordable macros, and much more. Built around Scintilla. Created by the same company that developed PyQt.
Libraries / New Functionality
- DOtherSide (⭐175) 🐙 (⭐175) - Binding for QML in C, primarily designed as an API for other languages to support QML.
- QNodeView (⭐186) 🐙 (⭐186) - Widget that lets you create and edit nodes in a graph similar to the kind provided by Unreal Engine, Substance Designer, or PureData.
- Qtilities 🐙 (⭐123) - Powerful set of libraries that provide GUI, logging, testing, configuration, and project functionality (among other things) for your application.
- QtitanChart - Chart generation framework. Commercial.
Books / New Functionality
- Game Programming Using Qt: Beginner's Guide by Witold Wysota and Lorenz Haas - Good place to start learning how to program games with QML.
- Application Development with Qt Creator - 2nd Edition, by Ray Rischpater - Beginner's guide to Qt, with a lot of focus on Qt Creator and its associated tools.
- Qt 5 Blueprints, by Symeon Huang - Seems to be about the overall structure of a Qt project.
- Mastering Qt 5, by Guillaume Lazar and Robin Penea 🐙 (⭐189) - Not your daddy's Qt. Tips and tricks for the experienced. The source code used in the book is available for free.
- Qt5 Cadaques 🐙 (⭐2.4k) - Free book that focuses on QML, named for this town in northeastern Spain that the authors vacationed to once.
Software that Uses Qt / New Functionality
- RUBE - Level design tool for any game that uses the Box2D physics engine.
Dec 24, 2016
Official Resources
- Qt Newsletters - The best of Qt, straight to your spam filter.
- Source Code - Browse the various source trees that comprise the Qt project. Has mirrors at several GitHub organizations:
Tools / Official Tools
- Qt Visual Studio Add-in 🐙 (⭐39) - If you'd rather stick to Visual Studio, this add-in will let you do that.
Tools / Third-Party Tools
- SIP 📦 - Generates Python bindings for C or C++ libraries. Has special support for Qt signals and slots, and was used to create PyQt.
Bindings in Other Languages / Third-Party Tools
- Python (via PyQt) 📦 - Arguably the most comprehensive and well-known binding of Qt to another language.
Libraries / Integrations
Libraries / New Functionality
- QtitanRibbon - For fans of the ribbons that Microsoft uses in their software. Commercial.
Blogs / New Functionality
- Planet Qt - Official aggregation of first-party and third-party Qt-related blogs.
- ICS - Qt-centric software consulting firm with a really neat blog. Specializes in graphics applications.
- Qt Tips and Tricks [1, 2] - Odds and ends that might be nice to keep in your back pocket.
- Mastering Qt File Selectors - Sometimes you need different variations of the same asset, but you won't know which ones to load until runtime. This class will decide for you.
- Some Lesser Known Qt Tools and Commands [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] - You don't find hidden gems by staying on the beaten path.
- Using Self-Signed Certificates in Qt Code - Trust nobody.
- Integrating C++ with QML - Talk to your scripting language. That's what it's there for.
- Qt and OpenGL: Loading a 3D Model with Open Asset Import Library (Assimp) [1, 2] - Assimp supports a lot of different model types; these articles will help you support all of them.
- What's new in Qt 5: QStandardPaths - This feature's been around for a few years, but it's still useful enough to warrant an entry on this list.
- What's New in Qt 5.2: QCommandLineParser - Another oldie, but still a goodie.
- Woboq - Another software consulting firm that also contributes code to Qt. They seem to specialize in Qt's core architecture.
- Moc myths debunked - The magic that Qt appears to rely in is really just a bunch of code generators. This post will bring you up to speed on the reality of the
moc, the most notable one. - How Qt Signals and Slots Work [1, 2, 3] - Qt's signals/slots system lets any object talk to any other object. Understanding these three articles will help you take full advantage of the feature.
- QMetaType knows your types - C++ isn't known for having good run-time type information, so Qt brings its own.
- C++11 in Qt5 - Stop writing C++ like it's 2003; learn how you can take advantage of recent C++ features in your Qt applications.
- C++14 for Qt programmers -
s/2003/2011/ - QStringLiteral explained - String literals are widely used in many applications; wouldn't it be nice if you could make them faster to access?
- Nicer debug output in Qt using QT_MESSAGE_PATTERN - It's nice to be able to read your application's logs.
- Moc myths debunked - The magic that Qt appears to rely in is really just a bunch of code generators. This post will bring you up to speed on the reality of the
- KDAB - Another consulting firm that specializes in Qt.
- GammaRay: Taking a deep look into your Qt application - Talk about GammaRay and how it can help you dissect your Qt applications. Talk given at QtCon 2016 by Volker Krause.
- Multithreading with Qt - I want to make my application do more than once thing at once. What could possibly go wrong? Talk given at QtCon 2016 by Giuseppe D'Angelo.
- Linux perf for Qt developers - How to make your Qt application faster, Linux-style. Talk given at QtCon 2016 by Milian Wolff.
Books / New Functionality
- PySide GUI Application Development - 2nd Edition, by Gopinath Jaganmohan and Venkateshwaran Loganathan - Imagine these other books, but in Python.
Other Relevant Awesome Lists / New Functionality
- Awesome C/C++ (⭐41k) - There's no reason you can't use C++ libraries that weren't designed for Qt. Sometimes they might even suit your needs better than what Qt offers.
- Awesome C (⭐2.9k) - Same goes for C libraries; might wanna brush up on those RAII techniques while you're at it.
- Awesome CMake (⭐4.4k) - If you're not using qmake for your project, you're likely using CMake instead.
- Awesome OpenGL (⭐1.7k) - Qt is commonly used for graphics applications, even providing its own wrappers around OpenGL.
Dec 23, 2016
Communities / Official
- Mailing Lists - Mailing lists for users and developers of Qt alike. Arguably the best place to communicate directly with Qt's maintainers. Sees frequent activity.
Tools / Official Tools
Bindings in Other Languages / Third-Party Tools
- Python (via PySide) 📦 - Another binding for Python, which has been officially adopted by the Qt project.
Libraries / Integrations
- Serves as a client for an established Web service.
- Wraps another library in a Qt-friendly manner as more than just an implementation detail (i.e. it tries to mimic the wrapped API).
- neiasound (⭐1) 🐙 (⭐1) - OpenAL wrapper designed for games, with stb_vorbis and libsndfile support.
- QtAwesome (⭐565) 🐙 (⭐565) - Add Font Awesome icons to your Qt application. Other icon sets are supported, too.
- qtruby (⭐3) 🐙 (⭐3) - Use Ruby as a scripting language within your application.
Libraries / New Functionality
- Communi 🐙 (⭐81) - Cross-platform IRC framework. We've got enough IRC clients out there already, but I suppose this could also be used to implement a chat function in your application (e.g. for community support).
- glraw (⭐61) 🐙 (⭐61) - Convert images from any Qt-supported format to OpenGL-format textures. Useful for speeding up texture loading in graphics applications.
- grantlee (⭐126) 🐙 (⭐126) - Django-inspired text templating.
- injeqt (⭐93) 🐙 (⭐93) - Dependency injection for Qt.
- KDE Frameworks 🐙 📦 - Metric ass-ton of libraries for KDE, but many of them can be used with regular Qt applications as well. Cross-platform, for the most part.
- qgexedit2 (⭐279) 🐙 (⭐279) - Embed a hex editor in your application.
- qml-material (⭐2.5k) 🐙 (⭐2.5k) - Material Design implemented in QML.
- QSimpleUpdater (⭐635) 🐙 (⭐635) - Let your application update itself.
- qt-maybe (⭐28) 🐙 (⭐28) - Fans of type theory will enjoy these sum and optional types.
- qt-mustache (⭐81) 🐙 (⭐81) - Render Mustache templates.
- qtnotify (⭐12) 🐙 (⭐12) - Notification framework.
- QtTerminalWidget (⭐39) 🐙 (⭐39) - Make your application capable of anything.
- QtVerbalExpressions (⭐56) 🐙 (⭐56) - Create regular expressions using natural English expressions. Part of the VerbalExpressions project, which does the same thing for a wide variety of languages.
- qtwebserver (⭐59) 🐙 (⭐59) - If you need to write a web application server in Qt for some reason, this'll help you along.
- verdigris (⭐580) 🐙 (⭐580) - Experimental library to write Qt applications without using the
moc.
Software that Uses Qt / New Functionality
- Parallels Desktop - Consumer-focused virtualization.
- TeamSpeak - When gamers want to voice chat in a game that doesn't support it, they'll use this.
Oct 16, 2016
Conventions
- Any list item with an OctoCat 🐙 has a GitHub repo or organization; click on it to see the source code!
- List items with this 📦 icon have source code hosted elsewhere.
Official Resources
- Official Website - The official website for the Qt framework.
- Qt Documentation - Official Qt documentation. Massive and comprehensive.
- Qt Bug Tracker - If you think you've found a bug with Qt or one of its related projects, report it here (or see if someone else already has).
- Qt Code Review - See how the Qt maintainers ensure their code is well-written.
Communities / Official
- Qt Forum - If e-mail's not your thing, then you might also consider getting help or sharing knowledge on the forums.
- Qt Wiki - The premier source for user-contributed Qt knowledge.
Communities / Unofficial
- QtForum.org - Not to be confused with the official Qt forum.
Software that Uses Qt / New Functionality
- Qt Creator 🐙 (⭐1.9k) - Something something eating your own dog food. Listed in the official tools, but not listing it here doesn't feel right.
- CMake 🐙 (⭐5.2k) - The closest thing to a standard C++ build system out there. The bundled GUI uses Qt.
- Doxygen 🐙 (⭐4.4k) - The most popular documentation generator for C++, though it supports other languages as well. The bundled GUI uses Qt.
- Tiled 🐙 (⭐9.2k) - Perhaps the world's most popular tilemap editor. Suitable for level design in games.
- VirtualBox 📦 - Virtualization software for x86/64 processors. The bundled GUI uses Qt.
Tools / Official Tools
- Qt Linguist 🐙 (⭐125) - Qt provides excellent internationalization/localization support, and this tool is very much responsible for it. Write translatable strings in your code with special macros, and this tool will aggregate them all for you so you or your translator(s) can broaden your software's audience.
- Emulator - Don't forget about Qt's mobile support!
Tools / Third-Party Tools
- GammaRay 🐙 (⭐1.3k) - Powerful debugger and general inspection tool for Qt-built software. Lets you inspect and manipulate the
QObjecthierarchy, view object properties, edit widgets at runtime, and far, far more. A two-sentence blurb can't do it justice, seriously check it out.
Bindings in Other Languages / Third-Party Tools
- Ring (via RingQt) 🐙 (⭐1k) - I've never heard of this language either, honestly.
Oct 15, 2016
Software that Uses Qt / New Functionality
- Autodesk Maya - 3D animation and design software that has been used to create visual effects for some of the most popular movies and TV shows of all time.
Aug 15, 2016
Software Repositories / New Functionality
- #inqlude - The most well-known aggregation of Qt-centric libraries out there. A package manager is also available here.
- Linux-Apps.com - Despite the name, Linux-Apps.com aggregates a wide variety of Qt-based tools and libraries for both end-users and developers.
- Stephan Binner's Ubuntu PPAs - Ubuntu users who are hesitant to install anything outside of their package managers can obtain any recent version of Qt from these repositories. Instructions for adding them are found within.
Software that Uses Qt / New Functionality
- Google Earth - The virtual globe.