QML2 Books / Tutorials?

[ggalt]

Anyone have suggestions on either a good book or set of tutorials for QML2? There doesn't seem to be any good resources located in a single place and I end up spending a lot of time hunting around. I'm just learning QML2 and am hoping that someone has put together a good set of tutorials.

[sierdzio]

Qt documentation and examples is a good start. QML1 is almost the same, you can use it's tutorials, too.

[martin_ky]

Hello ggalt,

Unfortunatelly currently all the Qt books out there are discussing at most pre-QML era Qt 4.x. Advanced Qt Programming by Mark Summerfield is a good book if you want to learn some advanced widgets techniques.

You are probably best off looking for QML learning resources in the qt-project docs and wiki:

http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtdoc/qtexamplesandtutorials.html
http://qt-project.org/wiki/Category:Developing_with_Qt::Qt_Quick

and in your Qt SDK installation source code's subdir:

.../examples/quick/

and various interesting blogs:

http://cdumez.blogspot.com
http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/author/jbache/

[utcenter]

Might want to look in this section:
http://qt-project.org/forums/viewforum/19/

[ggalt]

Martin:

Thanks for the reply. I had looked at the examples/tutorials on the Qt site, but unfortunately, many of them look uncompleted. For example, if you look at the "samegame" example, all of the code examples are missing (for example:https://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtquick/qtquick2-tutorials-samegame-samegame1.html). I haven't had a chance to look at the wiki yet. I'll take a look there.

Thanks again,

George

[martin_ky]

You're right, the online docs seems to be broken at some places. You should be able to view the documentation offline as well. Start your Qt Creator, go to Help -> Contents, then go to Qt 5.0 Reference Documentation -> Tutorials and Examples in the content tree. The docu seems OK there.

[ggalt]

Thanks, I'll take a look.

[utcenter]

[quote author="ggalt" date="1365447251"] I had looked at the examples/tutorials on the Qt site, but unfortunately, many of them look uncompleted. For example, if you look at the "samegame" example, all of the code examples are missing[/quote]

This has been a problem for quite a while, 5.0.1 was supposed to fix the doc, but it didn't, looks like Qt is still running behind schedule, thankfully not as bad as with 5.0.

Take a look at those, they are more complete:
http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/A_QML_Memory_Game_Tutorial
http://quitcoding.com/download/Qt_Quick_Game_Programming_1_0.pdf

[chrisadams]

Hi,

The 5.0-stable snapshot documentation is far less (although still a little bit) broken than the main page docs which are regenerated at random intervals.

http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qt5-stable/qtquick/qtquick-applicationdevelopers.html
http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qt5-stable/qtqml/qtqml-index.html
http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qt5-stable/qtquick/qtquick-index.html

The qml demos link still seems broken in that snapshot though, as does the type registration docs from the QML module docs. What can I say: qdoc is terrible, and the doc team doesn't like hardlinking doc sections via explicit page links, since they want DITA XML output to work properly, and that leaves us between a rock and a hard place as far as documentation is concerned.

As martin_ky said, the offline docs might be better.

Cheers,
Chris.

[utcenter]

In the future perhaps, hopefully, for 5.0 and 5.0.1 doc building failed for me (and not just me) and only HTML docs were generated, and worse than the online version - the missing snippets are still missing, plus there is entire articles that are missing too.