Native Look-and-Feel on Windows 10 Mobile with Qt / QML
The goal for today: create a QML app for Windows 10 Mobile, with a native look-and-feel! The goal Because this should be just about the UI and its QML items, I took an existing Windows 10 Mobile app and "copy" its UI, to see how we can achieve it with QML. The app to "copy" is the Alarm & Clock app: The UI has, beside the common Modern UI controls, 3 major elements: a sticky header with a toolbar, button with icons + text Swipe-able subpages every subpage has its own AppBar [1] with different icons and entries The tools For the implementation, I'm using Qt 5.6(.0). Why? There are two main reasions. The first reason is a new QML extension called "Qt Labs Controls" (see chapter "Further notes"), which makes it very easy to write re-usable UI controls with QML. The Qt Labs Controls are the successor of the QtQuickControls1 module, which is present since the early Qt5 days. QtQuickControls1 had many issues when it