In this chapter, we extended our reach outside of our application and began interacting with external APIs using HTTP requests over the internet. We abstracted the Qt functionality using our own interfaces to improve decoupling and make our components more test friendly. We took a quick look at RSS and its structure and how to process XML node trees using Qt’s XML module. Finally, we reinforced the great UI work we’ve been doing and added an interactive view to display an RSS feed and launch the default web browser for a given URL.
In Chapter 9, Wrapping Up, we will take a look at the steps required to package our application for deployment to other computers.