Qt Positioning Plugins¶
Default Plugins and Implementing Qt Positioning plugins
Qt Positioning provides the majority of its functionality through plugins. This document outlines how to develop a new position plugin.
Default plugins¶
Some plugins already ship with Qt. These are:
android
Wraps Android positioning subsystem. Available only on Android.
corelocation
Wraps iOS and macOS positioning subsystems. Available only on Apple platforms supporting corelocation.
geoclue
Interfaces with GeoClue v0.12. Requires GeoClue 0.12 to be present to function.
geoclue2
Interfaces with GeoClue v2. Requires GeoClue v2 to be present to function.
gypsy
Interfaces with Gypsy daemon. Requires Gypsy to be present to function.
winrt
Wraps WinRT positioning subsystem. Available only on WinRT and Windows10.
serialnmea
A Serial NMEA backend that parses NMEA streams from a GPS receiver over a serial link to provide position updates.
positionpoll
A backend providing only area monitoring functionalities via polling on position updates.
Plugin Description¶
Each plugin is described by a json file. The json describes the plugins capabilities and version. Below is an example of a json file used by the postionpoll plugin:
<Code snippet "/data/snapshot-qt5full-5.15/qt5/qtbase/../../../plugins/position/positionpoll/plugin.json" not found>The entries have the following meaning:
Key
Description
Keys
The unique name/key of the plugin. Each position plugin must have a unique name.
Provider
The provider name of the services. Multiple plugins may have the same name. In such cases the Version string will be used to further distinguish the plugins.
Position
Set to
true
if the plugin implements aQGeoPositionInfoSource
.Satellite
Set to
true
if the plugin implements aQGeoSatelliteInfoSource
.Monitor
Set to
true
if the plugin implements aQGeoAreaMonitorSource
.Priority
The plugin priority. If multiple plugins have the same provider name, the plugin with the higest priority will be used.
Implementing Plugins¶
A plugin implementer needs to subclass
QGeoPositionInfoSourceFactory
and override one or more of its functions. If a plugin does not support a specific feature the function should return 0 or utilize the default implementation.
areaMonitor()
positionInfoSource()
satelliteInfoSource()
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