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xfbs · 02-24-2018, 06:22 PM

Dear Community,

Could someone get me up to speed with developing apps for Kobo (specifically Kobo Glo)? I bought one for cheaps, planning to just glue it to my wall and use it as a fancy calendar or something like that.

Tiny setback is that I bricked the touchscreen while setting it up, but that's cool because I wasn't planning on using it anyways.

I've poked around a little bit and found that it uses Qt, specifically Qt 5.2. Is there a tutorial on how to get set up with Qt for arm (embedded)? Just like a hello world kind of situation that I can tinker with?

Also, how much of the default system can I delete? I mean I have a backup of anything, but is there a tutorial on how to just throw everything away (I don't need any of the default GUI stuff, I want it to boot right into my app).

For the wifi: I found some references to wpa_supplicant, am I right in assuming that it's using that to connect to wifi? If so, I think I can probably just hardcode my wifi into the config, and in case it changes I can manually edit it, right?

Cheers, xfbs!

02-24-2018, 06:22 PM	#1
xfbs Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2018 Device: Kobo Glo	Can someone get me up to speed with Kobo development? Dear Community, Could someone get me up to speed with developing apps for Kobo (specifically Kobo Glo)? I bought one for cheaps, planning to just glue it to my wall and use it as a fancy calendar or something like that. Tiny setback is that I bricked the touchscreen while setting it up, but that's cool because I wasn't planning on using it anyways. I've poked around a little bit and found that it uses Qt, specifically Qt 5.2. Is there a tutorial on how to get set up with Qt for arm (embedded)? Just like a hello world kind of situation that I can tinker with? Also, how much of the default system can I delete? I mean I have a backup of anything, but is there a tutorial on how to just throw everything away (I don't need any of the default GUI stuff, I want it to boot right into my app). For the wifi: I found some references to wpa_supplicant, am I right in assuming that it's using that to connect to wifi? If so, I think I can probably just hardcode my wifi into the config, and in case it changes I can manually edit it, right? Cheers, xfbs!