[maemo-developers] How to resolve network connectivity without using Qt Mobility in Qt?

[From: Ville M. Vainio]

Qt mobility is in official nokia repo (not extras). It's ok to depend on those packages when publishing at ovi store.

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> Hi,
> 
> After struggling for about a month with my app and the Ovi Store QA,
> this is what I found out: apparently Ovi Store is not using a
> repository, at least for paid apps, and therefore cannot install
> dependencies. However, at the same time their QA team requires quite a
> few things when dealing with network connectivity. Obviously these
> requirements are not published anywhere, otherwise this would be much
> too easy!
> 
> Anyway, this is what I think they want:
> 
> 1. Detectect if the device is Offline and give appropriate warning.
> 2. Detect if the device is connected and if not establish the connection.
> 3. If the connection is set to manual, the app needs to give the
> necessary prompt.
> 4. If the connection is set to automatic, it should connect without any
> prompt.
> 
> So these, I believe, are the requirements of the Ovi Store
> QA regarding network connectivity. Now the question is how can this be
> done without using Qt Mobility (or any other library that is not
> included with PR1.2)? Is it even possible?
> 
> It would be nice if there would be a Wiki page or something where a
> sample code that would pass   Ovi Store's QA would be available. I
> understands that most of the competing platforms have these sample codes
> freely available, so to prevent the need for devs to reinvent the wheel.
> It's about time Nokia would have something similar. Currently it seems
> that while Nokia is recommending Qt for everyone with great enthusiasm,
> their QA team seems to be out of touch what is currently possible to do
> with it and what not.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sascha

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