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// Copyright (C) 2022 The Qt Company Ltd.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-only
/*!
\page topics-app-development.html
\title Development Tools
\brief Qt tools for application development.
\ingroup explanations-tools
Qt is designed for developing applications and user interfaces once and
deploying them across several desktop and mobile operating systems.
The easiest way to start application development with Qt is to \l{Downloads}
{download} and install Qt. Qt installations contain Qt libraries, examples,
documentation, and the necessary development tools, such as the
\l{Qt Creator Manual}{Qt Creator} integrated development environment (IDE).
For more information, visit the \l{Getting Started with Qt} page.
\section1 Qt Creator
\l{Qt Creator Manual}{Qt Creator} provides you with tools for accomplishing
your tasks throughout the whole application development life-cycle, from
creating a project to deploying the application on the target platforms. Qt
Creator automates some tasks, such as creating projects, by providing
wizards that guide you step-by-step through the project creation process,
create the necessary files, and specify settings depending on the choices
you make. Also, it speeds up some tasks, such as writing code, by offering
semantic highlighting, checking code syntax, code completion, refactoring
actions, and other useful features.
\image qtcreator/qtcreator-qt-quick-editors.png
\section1 Design Tools
\b{Qt Widgets Designer} is a tool within Qt Creator for designing and building
graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for Qt Widgets. You can compose and
customize your widgets or dialogs in a visual editor, and test them using
different styles and resolutions. \QD is also available as a
standalone tool. Both versions of \QD only differ in some
functionalities such as the use of resource files and how to switch in the
design and edit mode. For more information, visit the
\l{Qt Widgets Designer Manual}{\QD} manual.
\section2 Collaboration with Designers
Qt lets designers import assets from imaging and design tools, such as Adobe
Photoshop, Sketch, Figma, Blender, or Maya, create layouts and flows, and
generate code for developers. \l{Qt Design Studio Manual}{Qt Design Studio}
is a tool that provides rich and fluid components,
a code editor, timeline-based animations, visual effects, layouts, and
a live-preview for prototyping. Qt Design Studio generates code for
developers to use in Qt Creator. For more information about the tools for
designers, visit the \l{Qt Design Studio Manual}{Qt Design Studio} manual.
\section1 Build Tools
Qt Creator creates project templates for different build systems. You can
create \e kits for different combinations of target platforms and build
environments. Qt Creator supports CMake, qmake, Qbs, Autotools, Nimble,
Meson, and IncrediBuild projects.
For more information about project templates and building in Qt Creator,
see:
\list
\li \l{Qt Creator: Build Systems}
\li \l{Qt Creator: Building for Multiple Platforms}
\endlist
\section2 Configuring and Building Qt
You can configure and build Qt from source using \b CMake or \b qmake.
Custom configurations are for developers of Qt and for porting Qt to
different targets. The \l{Qt Platform Abstraction} is an abstraction
layer to facilitate Qt ports onto different platforms and targets.
For more information about building Qt, see:
\list
\li \l{Build with CMake}
\li \l{qmake Manual}
\li \l{Qt Platform Abstraction}
\li \l{Supported Platforms}
\endlist
\section1 Internationalization and Help Tools
You can localize your application to different languages. Use the Qt
\l{Internationalization with Qt}{internationalization} framework
for handling different writing systems, translating interfaces, and for
displaying numbers, dates, and currency in different formats.
\l{Qt Linguist Manual}{Qt Linguist} is a tool for translators for
translating applications. Together with release managers and developers,
they produce, store, and deploy translated text in the UI.
For more information about internationalization and localization, see:
\list
\li \l{Internationalization with Qt}
\li \l{Qt Linguist Manual}{Qt Linguist}
\li \l{Writing Source Code for Translation}
\endlist
You can use the \l{The Qt Help Framework}{Qt Help} framework to create and
package help files for complex applications. The help framework involves
XML-based formats and tools to create content, set the order and filters
for application manuals.
\list
\li \l{The Qt Help Framework}
\li \l{Qt Help} C++ module
\endlist
*/
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