Application Development with Qt Creator - Second Edition

Obtaining a device's position – a simple example

Let's close this chapter with a simple example that returns the device's position, accelerometer, gyroscope, ambient light, and magnetometer readings. Here's how our application looks when running on a Nexus 7:

Note that my Nexus 7 does not have a magnetometer, so these readings aren't being updated.

First, we need to ensure that we include the positioning and sensor modules in our .pro file (if we don't, the application will compile but fail to launch):

TEMPLATE = app QT += qml quick positioning sensors SOURCES += main.cpp RESOURCES += qml.qrc # Additional import path used to resolve QML modules in ...