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/*!
    \page creator-how-to-run-in-app-manager.html
    \previouspage creator-how-tos.html

    \ingroup creator-how-to-run

    \title Run in Qt Application Manager

    If you have set up \l{Qt Application Manager}, you can deploy, run, and
    debug applications on the desktop, remote generic SSH Linux targets, or
    \l{Boot2Qt}{Boot2Qt devices}. The applications can be either
    \e {built-in applications} or \e {third-party applications}. The former
    are part of the System UI or the base installation, while the latter
    are dynamically installed, updated, and uninstalled.

    \note Enable the experimental Application Manager plugin to use it.

    To build a Qt Application Manager project, deploy it, and run selected apps
    in the System UI:

    \list 1
        \li Open an application manager project.
        \li In \uicontrol Projects > \uicontrol {Build & Run}, select a kit that
            specifies the Qt version and the device to use.
        \li Go to \preferences > \uicontrol Devices and specify a connection to
            the device.
        \li In \uicontrol Projects > \uicontrol {Build & Run}, specify settings
            for deploying and running the application with the selected kit.
        \li In the kit selector, select \inlineimage icons/run_small.png for the
            run target.
    \endlist

    You can see command-line output in the \l {Application Output} view. You
    can start, stop, and debug applications from there.

    On Linux, running a multi-process application starts a new process that you
    can stop. If the application uses a runtime of the type \c qml-inprocess, or
    you are running on Windows or \macos, you cannot debug it as an individual
    process. However, you can debug it as a part of the System UI.

    Debugging works transparently if you set it up for the run target.

    \section1 Application manager CMake functions

    Since Qt 6.7, when using CMake as the build system, use the following
    functions in the CMakeLists.txt file to indicate, which applications
    to create as built-in packages and which to create as installable packages:

    \list
        \li \l {qt6_am_create_builtin_package}
        \li \l {qt6_am_create_installable_package}
    \endlist

    \section1 Customize the installation

    To change the settings for deploying and running the application with the
    selected kit, go to \uicontrol Projects and select \uicontrol {Build & Run}
    > \uicontrol Run.

    \image qtcreator-appman-deploy-settings.webp {Deploy to application manager}

    \section2 Automatic deployment configuration selection

    In an application manager project, the targets need different deployment
    mechanisms. The System UI is deployed with the \e {default deployment
    configuration}, while all application manager packages use an
    \e {automatic application manager deploy configuration}, which deploys only
    the package itself when an installable package should be started.

    The appropriate deployment configuration is automatically selected when the
    current run configuration changes.

    \section2 Deployment configuration

    In \uicontrol Method, \uicontrol {Automatic Application Manager
    Deploy Configuration} adds the necessary CMake and tool arguments, as well as
    \uicontrol Targets to the effective \uicontrol Build command. You can select
    the targets in the kit selector to deploy and run applications on them.

    \image qtcreator-appman-kit-selector.webp {Automatically generated run targets in the kit selector}

    \section2 Installation settings

    In \uicontrol {Install Application Manager Package}, you can customize the
    \c {install-package} command.

    \QC uses the compiler from the kit (toolchain) to build the application.
    Then, it installs the application package into the target system using the
    \uicontrol Controller executable that must be running on the target. It
    is delivered with Qt Application Manager.

    In \uicontrol {Command line arguments}, the \c --acknowledge argument
    automatically acknowledges the installation. If the System UI implemented
    a confirmation dialog, you can remove this flag to show the dialog to the
    user when installing the package.

    To install some other package, select \uicontrol {Customize step}, and
    then enter the path to the package file in \uicontrol {Package file}.

    \section1 Application manager run settings

    To specify settings for running applications, go to \uicontrol Projects >
    \uicontrol {Run Settings}.

    \image qtcreator-appman-run-settings.webp {Run in Qt Application Manager}

    The following table summarizes the run settings for each application.

    \table
    \header
        \li Setting
        \li Value
    \row
        \li \uicontrol {Controller}
        \li The path to the controller that installs the application package into
            the target system.

            When you run applications on a Boot2Qt device, you can see the device
            ID here.
    \row
        \li \uicontrol {Application ID}
        \li The ID of the \c ApplicationManager application.
    \row
        \li \uicontrol {Document URL}
        \li The URL is passed to the started application, which can use it to
            start an action, such as opening the passed file URL.
    \row
        \li \uicontrol {Application Manager instance ID}
        \li The name of this application manager instance. Only useful if you are
            running multiple instances at the same time and you need to address
            them from the controller. A unique number is appended to this ID to
            disambiguate instances with the same ID.

            If you have several application manager instances running, you can
            override the instance ID in the \c config.yaml file.
    \row
        \li \uicontrol {Default instance}
        \li Always communicates with the default instance.
    \endtable

    \section1 Profile Qt Quick applications

    You can use the \l{Profiling QML Applications}{QML Profiler} to find causes
    for typical performance problems in your Qt Quick applications, such as
    slowness and unresponsive, stuttering user interfaces. You cannot profile an
    in-process runtime as an individual process.

    \sa {Activate kits for a project}, {Connecting Boot2Qt Devices},
    {Connecting Remote Linux Devices}, {Enable and disable plugins},
    {Run on many platforms}, {Debugging}, {Profiling QML Applications}
*/
