On Nov 3, 2015, at 4:24 PM, Federico Buti 
<fed.b...@gmail.com<mailto:fed.b...@gmail.com>> wrote:



On 3 November 2015 at 22:30, Edward Sutton 
<edward.sut...@subsite.com<mailto:edward.sut...@subsite.com>> wrote:

> On Nov 3, 2015, at 2:11 PM, Jason H <jh...@gmx.com<mailto:jh...@gmx.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>
>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 at 10:12 AM
>> From: "Edward Sutton" 
>> <edward.sut...@subsite.com<mailto:edward.sut...@subsite.com>>
>> To: "Qt Interest" <interest@qt-project.org<mailto:interest@qt-project.org>>
>> Subject: [Interest] Qt interfacing to Android native UI ?
>>
>> I know I can use native iOS UI by mixing Objective-C++ and C++ in the same 
>> *.mm file.
>>
>> I have done a little Android JNI.  Are there any examples for interfacing to 
>> Android native UI elements?
>>
>> I need to create a UI picker for manually entering GPS latitude and 
>> longitude in degrees,  or degrees, minutes, seconds for a widgets app.  I 
>> expect it will be hard to make a touch usable widget UI picker.  Developing 
>> a native interface may take similar amount of time but result will be much 
>> superior.
>
>
> >Define "much superior”?

What the user expects. True native touch UI. Responsive and fast.

>
> >Don't forget QML, which I think is the bee's knees. And then you have one 
> >codebase for iOS and Android and Desktop, which to me is vastly superior.

Does QML have a numeric picker wheel ui element?

>​Since Qt 5.5 Tumbler<http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-extras-tumbler.html> 
>is free.

I just built and ran the Qt Quick Enterprise Controls and I saw tumbler.  I am 
glad it is free for others to use too.

The PieMenu looked great too.


 >Anyhow writing one in QML is quite easy using a PathView. Here is a component

That was one of my concerns about QML.  Initially it looks like you could only 
use what Qt had created for you,  If something like a tumbler did not exist I 
assumed you were out-of-luck.  I need to research PathView and what it takes to 
create a new custom control.



I have wanted to try creating UI elements in QML then display them in a widget 
from my C++ Qt widget app.  I do not know if this is possible;  launching a QML 
ui then and receiving what the user selects from the QML UI. It may be worth 
the effort.

If I could mix some QML with my widget app it could be a better solution 
compared to writing (and maintaining) two (2) native UI numeric pickers, one 
for Android, and one for iOS.

So far I have one Qt widget codebase supporting Android, iOS, Linux, OS X, and 
Windows desktops except for a few things like Bluetooth, sending email, 
UIAlertView ( QMessageBox looks terrible on iOS ) and such.  If I start adding 
native UI interfaces for Android and iOS I start to lose benefits of Qt.

>Mixing Qt Widget and QML is possible.​ Look at this 
>blogpost<http://www.ics.com/blog/combining-qt-widgets-and-qml-qwidgetcreatewindowcontainer>.

I just ran across that example.  It worked once I put the QML file into a 
resource.  However that example does not interact with C++.  I was hoping to 
find an example that would demonstrate how I could read the QML state from C++ 
( or visa versa ).

I assume ta QML toggle button could raise a toggled signal that a C++ handler 
could react to?

Or C++ could change the state of the QML toggle button?

Thanks Federico!

-Ed


​Cheers,
F.
​

-Ed

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