As you saw in Chapter 3, Designing Your Application with Qt Designer, Qt Quick is Qt's declarative environment for application development. Qt Quick is ideal for fluid, animated user interfaces where you're working more with touch and mouse events, and where the style of your application is based on graphical resources instead of the need to mirror the host platform's widget set.
Qt Quick provides several basic graphical elements and the ability to combine them using a scripting language based on JavaScript, giving you the ability to tap existing skills in web design to create user experiences that are impossible to create entirely in HTML and CSS without a great deal of additional work. However, you can be empowered to do even more with Qt Quick by using some of its other features that we have not explored in the previous chapter. Let&apos...