Qt for Automotive HMI Development in Software-Defined Vehicles (original) (raw)
Build Your Brand's Own Software-Defined Vehicles
Create unique user experiences in your software-defined vehicles, using Qt's end-to-end tools for automotive HMI design, development, testing, and deployment.
Build Your ADAS with Qt SR HMI Template
Turbocharge Your Vehicles with Qt as They Have
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Instrument Cluster
Leverage Qt low footprint and graphics acceleration capabilities to deliver a comprehensive view of the car status with razor-sharp real-time graphics, even on MCU-based devices.
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Infotainment System
Enjoy full HMI customizability, connectivity, and 3rd-party application management to access the outside world from your car—and your car from any place.
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Head-Up Display
Leverage Qt fully data-driven real-time rendering capabilities to disclose road information by means of non-distracting augmented reality visuals.
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Rear-Seat Entertainment
Let your passengers access their own favorite home entertainment from the seat of the car, with Qt Web Application and connectivity capabilities.
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ADAS
Take advantage of Qt real-time 3D rendering to increase your safety on the road by means of realistic visualizations of the car in its actual environment.
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HVAC
Qt’s rich set of visual effects and input methods can turn your air conditioning or audio system into immersive experiences effectively enhancing the in-car experience.
Optimized Productivity in Automotive HMI Development
Streamline your workflow and increase your productivity by letting your UI/UX designers, technical artists, developers, and test engineers speak the same language.
With a range of products encompassing the whole lifecycle of HMI production, Qt Group's technology provides the capabilities teams often seek in HMI tools for automotive, helping increase synergies, simplify processes, and reduce the effort of delivering future-proof automotive software.
A Single Source of Truth for All Teams
Break down silos and increase your team’s productivity.
By sharing the same codebase across all teams, Qt technology ensures one source of truth, minimizes dependency issues, and simplifies large-scale refactoring.
Efficient Designer-Developer Workflow
Unleash the power of a UI creation tool where user experience is built hand-in-hand with code.
Qt Design Studio enables an integrated working methodology for UI/UX designers and developers that drastically reduces complexity and efforts, with vast benefits on time to market and cost.
Streamlining Operations
Reduce costs, time-to-market, and maintenance effort with tools for each production stage that speak the same language.
The adoption of a unified HMI framework whose tools encompass design, development, testing, and deployment delivers major benefits in terms of productivity, efficiency, brand identity, and quality.
Creating for Safety and Quality
Ensure the quality, safety, and reliability of your automotive HMI software.
Qt Group's Software Quality Solutions lets you test and validate automotive HMIs, as well as secure your automotive software development and ensure its overall compliance with coding guidelines (e.g., MISRA), regulations (e.g., ISO 26262 ASIL D), and standards (e.g., AUTOSAR).
Cloud-Based Development and Testing
Create your vehicle on the cloud to speed-up time-to-market and reduce development costs.
Development on cloud enables testing a variety of environments—from different hardware and software configurations, to digital-twin simulations—without dependence on any physical hardware until the perfect solution is ready.
Qt Automotive HMI Framework
Leverage over 15 years of mass-production history with the world-leading automotive players and millions of automotive HMIs in the market—and more to come.
Far beyond simple UI development, Qt Framework lets you define the entire platform’s middleware, empowering broad support to automotive functionality, third-party services, and advanced graphics—while delivering a native user experience on any target.
Flexible Framework
Leverage a wide set of HMI libraries that can be easily extended and customized with C++ code across the whole automotive software stack.
With its easily readable, declarative syntax, QML offers ample creative resources to efficiently build outstanding HMIs whose behavior can be customized with the greatest flexibility by means of C++ code.
Platform-Independent Code
Leverage the efficiency of an HMI creation workflow decoupled from hardware constraints.
Cross-platform means that software can be developed on PC and ported to a variety of devices and operating systems, saving time by removing duplicate work.
Functional Safety Certification
Meet the road vehicles' functional safety regulations, ISO 26262, up to ASIL D.
Built in conformance with the automotive industry standards and MISRA code guidelines, Qt Safe Renderer is certified for safety-critical applications in road vehicles.
Ready-Made HMI Components
Build at scale with high-quality standardized HMI components that can be easily customized for different devices and models.
Qt HMI solutions include ready-made components—such as menus, widgets, animations, visual effects, and more—that will bring the dashboard to life with rich automotive-specific functionality and state-of-the-art graphics.
Future-Proof Technology
Secure your market presence throughout your software-defined vehicle program lifecycle.
Qt platform-independent code saves your HMI from the risk of hardware and OS obsolescence. Being maintained for years, Qt long-term releases secure your product’s market permanence over time.
Software-Defined Vehicle Approach
Maximize the value of your automotive software by owning and controlling its entire lifecycle from inception to completion.
By providing ready-made support for the whole automotive software stack and the backbone of the entire car ecosystem, Qt Group's technology empowers the foundation of a true software-defined vehicle revolution.
One Framework to Control Every Display
Unify performance and user experience across every display in the car.
From Android Automotive, to QNX, automotive-grade Linux, Integrity, and more, Qt unifies the HMI experience under a single framework, enabling control and customization of key components of the connected car infrastructure, such as Cluster, Infotainment, Connectivity, and more.
Boosting Real-Time Graphics
Leverage high-performance 2D and 3D graphics to increase informativity and functionality.
Qt's low-footprint 3D graphics enable the representation of complex life-like situations, complemented by intuitive 2D controls for seamless interaction. Additionally, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, Direct3D, and Metal can easily be embedded in Qt applications and integrated with, e.g. safety-critical elements.
A Cross-Platform Signature UI
Deliver a coherent signature UI across each screen in the car.
Qt cross-platform code lets you reuse visual assets and UI elements across different devices, both in-car—instrument cluster, IVI, HUD, etc.—and portable—phones, wearable, PC, etc.—ensuring that your uniquely branded user experience is consistently displayed.
The Connected Vehicle
Enjoy the freedom to connect your car to your everyday life.
By enabling remote control via smartphone and companion apps, Qt connectivity tools bring your car to your fingertips. Qt-supported connectivity protocols integrate your vehicle infotainment system with your home and IoT devices.
Automotive HMI Development for Software-Defined Vehicles
Automotive HMI Frameworks: Driving UX for Software-Defined Vehicles
With vehicles becoming increasingly software-driven, the role of HMI frameworks and automotive HMI design tools in delivering safe, intuitive, and engaging experiences has never been more critical.
How to Optimize Automotive HMI Performance in SDVs
Automotive HMIs in Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs) must provide seamless, responsive experiences in constrained environments, making software optimization as essential as hardware.
What Modern Automotive HMI Graphics Demand for SDVs
Discover how modern automotive HMIs in SDVs use advanced graphics to elevate user experience while maintaining safety and compliance.
The iPhone Moment for Automotive has Arrived. Will OEMs Seize It?
Just as the iPhone reshaped the mobile industry, Software-Defined Vehicles are set to redefine what cars are and how value is captured.
Leading into 2026: Insights for the Software-Defined Vehicle era
This era is already here. But this shift is creating a systemic crisis for established OEMs. Learn in this webinar how to navigate this era and turn constant change into a long-term advantage.
Customer Stories Written with Qt
Volkswagen and Desay SV used Qt to reduce memory consumption by 50% on the 5-inch screen of the VW California campervan.
Sauber uses Qt to boost efficiency and safety during pit stop in Formula 1 races, and in several other applications.
Qt helps Suzuki optimize development costs without falling into vendor lock-in
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Ducati uses Qt for high-performance, smartphone-like HMI graphics, crucial for their luxury motorcycles.
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Upgrading to Qt 6 to support MB.OS across cars, leveraging cross-platform development, and shortening time-to-market.
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Stellantis uses Qt for rapid prototyping and cross-platform HMI development with advanced 3D effects.
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Qt is the key HMI partner for Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis, streamlining development and maintenance.
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Koenigsegg leverages Qt for supercar development, valuing its professional framework.
Harman uses Qt Framework as an accelerator to unlock competitive advantages and highly customized solutions.
In partnership with Qt Group, Siemens uses Qt Automotive HMI to bring its digital twin solution PAVE360™ to life with interactive visuals and rich functionality.
Strategic Playbook
Software-Defined Vehicles Need Software-Defined Leaders
You are delivering the software-defined vehicles the market demands. But the constant struggle with complex integrations, painful compliance, and costly software recalls proves hardware-first processes are still broken and slowing you down.
This playbook isn't for companies that are failing. It's for technical leaders who know the current cost of success is unsustainable. Learn how to shift to a software-first mindset and discipline, and take ownership of your architecture to eliminate complexity at its source.
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