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Reverse Engineering Android Apps

Reverse engineering in general is a tricky business and sometimes not very orthodox. So, why bother to write this article? Well, sometimes reverse engineering is also for something good. It started...

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Android Shared Storage Qt Wrapper

In this article, I’d like to talk about Android storage. In recent Android versions, Google decided, for a good reason, to restrict the access to the SD card. This means, even if your application will...

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Automotive Grade Maps and Navigation for Everyone

It is our pleasure to introduce a shiny new Maps & Navigation solution for QML developers! This QML plugin is a joint effort between KDAB & General Magic to bring the excellent General Magic...

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Qt on Android: How to convert Qt images to Android Images and vice-versa

Sometimes we need to exchange images from Android world to Qt world and vice-versa, therefore in this article we’re going to see how to convert a QImage to an Android Bitmap and how to convert an...

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Multiple screens support in Qt for Android

It has been a while since I last wrote about Qt on Android, mostly because the things were quite, a few bug fixes here and there but no features that it worth to mention. Today I have a pleasure to...

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All about Qt on Android

In this session we’ll see real life examples of using JNI on Android. We’ll start by checking the Qt 5.7 goodies which will make our lives easier, then we’ll see simple examples that you’ll need to...

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Qt for Android better than ever before

As you already know KDAB is the largest independent contributor to Qt code. Of course we didn’t get lazy and we’ve added a lot of cool stuff to Qt 5.14. In this article I’m going to write about the...

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Qt sensors just got better on Android

Each month KDAB schedules time for me to maintain the Qt for Android port. Usually I use it to review the pending patches or fix bugs, but sometime there is a quiet month and I have time to add new...

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QtCreator CMake for Android plugin

Santa Claus is coming to … wait a minute, it’s not Christmas yet! I have the pleasure to let you know that KDAB has contributed to Qt with yet another super cool project! It’s about QtCreator CMake for...

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Perfect Debugging Experience with QtCreator on Android

While I was working on a yet-to-be-announced super secret and cool Qt on Android project, I had to do a lot of debugging. This way I found that debugging Qt apps on Android using QtCreator was ok, but...

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“Unboxing” the Android Things Developer Preview

Android Things is Google’s answer to creating an environment for IoT devices. Take a slimmed down Android build, add some sensor-specific APIs, and provide it on a number of powerful pre-integrated...

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Qt on Android: How to create an Android service using Qt

Starting with Qt 5.7, we added the ability to create Android services using Qt. In this article we’re going to see how to get started and also how to communicate between the two. Before we get started...

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Qt on Android: How to restart your application

Some time ago, I wrote a code to restart the running application on Android. You might well ask why such a thing was needed. It was needed because there are cases where, whenever a user changes the...

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Qt on Android: How to use Android Toast

To get you started on this, we’ll be using KDAB’s Android utils with the humble Toast. Toasts are small popups which are used to show the user some feedback. Check Google’s API guide for more info...

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Qt on Android: How to convert Qt images to Android Images and vice-versa

Sometimes we need to exchange images from Android world to Qt world and vice-versa, therefore in this article we’re going to see how to convert a QImage to an Android Bitmap and how to convert an...

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Qt on Android: How to create a zero-copy Android SurfaceTexture QML item

Motivation: Android SurfaceTexture is used by all Android classes that need to display (a lot of) frames, it can be used to display media player, camera, etc. You can also use it in combination with...

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Qt on Android: How to run C++ code on Android UI thread

I’d like to start a new series of Qt on Android articles, these will be small articles which will focus on useful features that you’ll need on Android but which don’t have any Qt API (yet). I’ll start...

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Qt on Android Episode 7

Update: Here you have also the Chinese version, thanks goes to Foruok In the last two Qt on Android episodes we learned how to use basic JNI on Android and how to use an external IDE to easily manage...

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Qt on Android Episode 6

Update: Here you have also the Chinese version, thanks goes to Foruok In the last Qt on Android episode we learned the basics of JNI on Android in a Qt way. In this episode I’d like to focus on tools...

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Fun with Android

AKA: I know what you did last Christmas ! Hello folks, I’d like to share with you a few things that I did during this Xmas. Besides the fact I’ll never ever take a vacation before Xmas, because Brasov...

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