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Mastering Qt 5

By : Guillaume Lazar, Robin Penea
Book Image

Mastering Qt 5

By: Guillaume Lazar, Robin Penea

Overview of this book

Qt 5.7 is an application development framework that provides a great user experience and develops full-capability applications with Qt Widgets, QML, and even Qt 3D. This book will address challenges in successfully developing cross-platform applications with the Qt framework. Cross-platform development needs a well-organized project. Using this book, you will have a better understanding of the Qt framework and the tools to resolve serious issues such as linking, debugging, and multithreading. Your journey will start with the new Qt 5 features. Then you will explore different platforms and learn to tame them. Every chapter along the way is a logical step that you must take to master Qt. The journey will end in an application that has been tested and is ready to be shipped.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Qt 5
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Loading a database on mobile


Before continuing the UI implementation, we have to take care of the database deployment on mobile. Spoiler: this will not be fun.

We have to jump back to DatabaseManager.cpp in the gallery-core project:

DatabaseManager& DatabaseManager::instance() 
{ 
    return singleton; 
} 
 
DatabaseManager::DatabaseManager(const QString& path) : 
    mDatabase(new QSqlDatabase(QSqlDatabase::addDatabase("QSQLITE"))), 
    albumDao(*mDatabase), 
    pictureDao(*mDatabase) 
{ 
    mDatabase->setDatabaseName(path); 
    ... 
} 

Whereas on Desktop, the SQLite3 database is created at the instruction mDatabase->setDatabaseName(), on mobile it does not work at all. This is due to the fact that the filesystem is very specific on each mobile platform (Android and iOS). An application has only access to a narrow sandbox where it cannot mess with the rest of the filesystem. All the files inside the application directory must have specific file permissions. If we let SQLite3...