Fluid

Fluid is a collection of cross-platform QtQuick components for building fluid and dynamic applications, using the Material Design guidelines.

Online documentation is available at liri.io.

We develop using the git flow method this means that the develop branch contains code that is being developed and might break from time to time. If you want to check out a stable version just install one of the releases or clone the master branch that has the latest released version.

Dependencies

Qt >= 5.10.0 with at least the following modules is required:

Build

Qbs is a new build system that is much easier to use compared to qmake or CMake.

If you want to learn more, please read the Qbs manual, especially the setup guide and how to install artifacts from the installation guide.

Open up fluid.qbs with QtCreator, hit build and run to see the demo in action.

Alternatively you can build it yourself from the terminal. We strongly advise against manual builds, unless you have previous experience.

Qbs does not currently support Android builds, please use per-project installation if you are building a mobile app.

If you haven't already, start by setting up a qt5 profile for qbs:

git submodule update --init --recursive
qbs setup-toolchains --type gcc /usr/bin/g++ gcc
qbs setup-qt $(which qmake) qt5 # make sure that qmake is in PATH
qbs config profiles.qt5.baseProfile gcc

Then, from the root of the repository, run:

qbs -d build -j $(nproc) profile:qt5 # use sudo if necessary

To the qbs call above you can append additional configuration parameters:

modules.lirideployment.prefix:/path/to/prefix where most files are installed (default: /usr/local)
modules.lirideployment.dataDir:path/to/lib where data files are installed (default: /usr/local/share)
modules.lirideployment.libDir:path/to/lib where libraries are installed (default: /usr/local/lib)
modules.lirideployment.qmlDir:path/to/qml where QML plugins are installed (default: /usr/local/lib/qml)
modules.lirideployment.pluginsDir:path/to/plugins where Qt plugins are installed (default: /usr/local/lib/plugins)
modules.lirideployment.qbsModulesDir:path/to/qbs where Qbs modules are installed (default: /usr/local/share/qbs/modules)

See lirideployment.qbs for more deployment-related parameters.

Documentation

The HTML documentation is built if projects.Fluid.withDocumentation:true is passed to qbs and it is localed inside <install root>/<prefix>/share/doc/fluid/html.

Open <install root>/<prefix>/share/doc/fluid/html/index.html with a browser to read it.

Installation

You can either install system-wide or per-project installation which is essentially embedding Fluid in your project.

System-wide installations are usually performed by packagers who want to redistribute Fluid in their Linux distro.

Per-project installation is most useful for mobile developers that want to build Fluid alongside their project.

System-wide installation

We assume that your distro installs QtQuick modules in /usr/lib/qt/qml like Arch Linux does, please change the paths for your Linux distro.

The same goes for other operating systems.

From the root of the repository, run:

git submodule update --init --recursive
qbs setup-toolchains --type gcc /usr/bin/g++ gcc
qbs setup-qt /usr/bin/qmake-qt5 qt5
qbs config profiles.qt5.baseProfile gcc
qbs build --no-install -d build profile:qt5 modules.lirideployment.prefix:/usr modules.lirideployment.qmlDir:/usr/lib/qt/qml
sudo qbs install -d build --no-build -v --install-root / profile:qt5

Please note that a system-wide installation is discouraged in most cases because there's a risk to "pollute" your system with libraries not managed by a package manager.

Per-project installation

You can embed Fluid in your project and build it along your app.

We have an example with qmake in examples/perproject/minimalqmake and another one for qbs in examples/perproject/minimalqbs.

Licensing

Licensed under the terms of the Mozilla Public License version 2.0.

kitech/fluid