Previewing on Devices | Qt Creator Manual

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- Qt Creator Manual 13.0.1

Previewing on Desktop ◦ Previewing in Browsers

# Previewing on Devices

To preview UIs on Android devices, enable USB debugging on them and connect them to your system with a USB cable.

To preview UIs on Boot2Qt devices, connect the devices to your system with a USB cable, or a wired or wireless connection, depending on the device, and configure connections to them. The necessary kits have been predefined and you only need to enable them for your current project.

Deploy configurations handle the packaging and copying of the necessary files to a location in a device where you want to run the executable at.

Note: To preview on a wirelessly connected device, go to Preferences > Devices and connect the device.

To preview a UI on a device:

1. In Projects > Build & Run, enable the kit predefined for the device type (1).
2. Select the kit for the device in the kit selector (2).

3. Select Build > QML Preview or press Alt+P.

### Previewing on Android Devices

With the USB debugging feature on Android devices, you can create connections to the devices from Qt Creator and run the preview utility on them.

Debugging is turned on in different ways on different Android devices. Look for USB Debugging under Developer Options. On some devices, Developer Options is hidden and becomes visible when you tap the Build number field in Settings > About several times.

After you turn on debugging, connect the Android device to the system with a USB cable.

The first time you preview a UI on devices, the preview utility is copied to them. This might take some time. Thereafter, previewing will get faster because only the UI files need to be copied to the device.

### Previewing on Boot2Qt Devices

You can preview UIs on supported Boot2Qt devices that you configure as instructed in the Boot2Qt documentation.

See also Boot2Qt: Documentation and Support Levels for Target Hardware.

Previewing on Desktop ◦ Previewing in Browsers