Create and Run a New Project

Create a new Project

To create a new project, select Create Project in the Welcome tab of Qt Creator or from the File menu.

Follow the next 5 steps to create and run a new project:

Choose Template

Felgo offers several templates for different game genres and app types as a starting point.

For a new gaming project select the Felgo Games option in the left column.

For a new app project select the Felgo Apps option in the left column.

Choose a new Single-Page Application wizard for an empty app or select a wizard that matches your project.

Project Name and Location

On the following screen specify a project name and the location.

Kit Selection

Qt Creator groups settings used for building and running projects as so-called kits in order to make deployment to different platforms easier. These kits define environments like the target platform, compilers, Qt versions and devices.

The initial Felgo installation only includes the kit for your current Desktop system to make the download as small as possible. That's the reason why you only see one Desktop kit in the list for now:

App Configuration

The next page asks for some additional information about your new game or app:

• App display name: Enter a name that should be displayed on the home-screen of your mobile app or as title of your desktop app.
• App identifier: A unique name used for the bundle identifier on iOS and as package name on Android. It may contain uppercase or lowercase letters ('A' through 'Z'), numbers and periods ("."), however individual identifier name parts may only start with letters. To avoid conflicts with other developers, you should use Internet domain ownership as the basis for your package names (in reverse; e.g. com.felgo.example.game).
• Interface orientation: Choose whether your app or game should be in landscape mode, portrait mode or should automatically rotate depending on the device orientation.

Choose Plugins

For each wizard, you also have the option to add demo integrations for Felgo Plugins Documentation as well. If you already know you want to include a plugin, this will save a little time with required plugin integration steps.

With this selection, your project is configured with all plugin dependencies for Android & iOS. This includes:

• Setting up the .gradle file for Android.
• Setting up the .plist file for iOS.
• Setting up the .pro file to include the plugin libraries for iOS.

Run the Project

As a last step the project wizard shows a summary about your new project, after selecting the Done button your new project gets created and you see the main entry point (Main.qml) in the editor.

Finally click the green triangle ("Play") button in the left bottom corner of Qt Creator to run your project.