{"id":1942,"date":"2017-11-17T20:19:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T14:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8081\/system-on-module-som\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2025-03-26T13:33:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T08:03:37","slug":"accelerated-embedded-gui-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.e-consystems.com\/blog\/system-on-module-som\/accelerated-embedded-gui-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerated Embedded GUI development"},"content":{"rendered":"

Embedded devices have taken a major leap in the recent years. Most embedded devices have so much raw power that we did not see even in the most powerful computers of the 80’s or 90’s. With the explosion of the internet and smart devices the user expectations in terms of graphics and time to market has gone to new highs that no one imagined.<\/p>\n

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In today’s market even those factories that ran with line and terminal interfaces for generations are demanding touch screen based modern User Interface experiences. Which are more intuitive and ergonomically safe. With the advent of UI frameworks from companies like Qt, high-end graphics is no more a sophistication and high expense. Rich UX experiences were restricted in the past to run on the web servers and desktops no one imagined such high-end graphics could be realised on such small form factor devices like eSOMiMX6.<\/p>\n

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We have developed several complex products for our customers using Qt QML on our iMX6<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/span> platforms with great performance. So in this article we would like to quickly show you how to build your first QML application. This we expect will launch you into embedded GUI development for ARM based platforms. We have included free samples below which you can download for free by just registering yourself on our website www.e-consystems.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

To showcase how quickly we can develop and run a QML application on eSOMiMX6<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/span> device, we developed a stopwatch application. This application was developed using pure QML components such as Rectangle, Timer, Text, Column, etc. The result was amazing !!! The time taken to develop, build, deploy and run the application on eSOMiMX6<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/span> was less than 1 hour. The output was an intuitive stopwatch watch with an excellent look and feel on our eSOMiMX6<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/span> device.<\/p>\n

Please refer our previous articles on How to setup Qt creator for eSOMiMX6 devices<\/a> and How to build, deploy and run Qt applications on eSOMiIMX6 devices<\/a> to build and run the stopwatch application on eSOMiMX6<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/span> devices .<\/p>\n

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