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Application Development with Qt Creator - Third Edition
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Application Development with Qt Creator - Third Edition

by Lee Zhi Eng
January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
426 pages
9h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Determining device location

Many devices support position determination, either through hardware such as a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or through network resources such as Internet Protocol (IP) geolocation. Similar to the other sensor support, this facility was introduced to Qt in Qt 4.x through the Qt Mobility module and is now supported through the Qt Positioning module. It's supported on many mobile devices, including Android.

To use the Qt Positioning module, you need to include the positioning keyword in your .pro file, as follows:

QT += quick network positioning 

The Qt Positioning module provides three types of positioning; you can access these by importing the QtPositioning module:

  • PositionSource: This provides position ...
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