Positioning with satellites

A phone usually has a built-in GPS modem but also other sources of positioning information, so I will use Android for this example. The main Qt classes we will look at are as follows:

Here are the Qt Positioning APIs:

• QGeoSatelliteInfo
• QGeoLocation
• QGeoPositionInfoSource
• QGeoCoordinate

And here are the Qt Location APIs:

• QPlaceSearchResult
• QPlaceContent
• QGeoRoute

First, we need to edit the .pro file and add QT += positioning.

QGeoSatelliteInfoSource

You can show the user satellite information by using QGeoSatelliteInfoSource, which has a static method to get QGeoSatelliteInfoSource.

The source code can be found on the Git repository under the Chapter08-1 directory...