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

[From: Marius Vollmer]

ext Sascha Mäkelä <sascha.makela at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

These services are provided by libconic.  There should be a
libconic0-doc package in the Maemo 5 SDK repositories with the API
documentation for it.

> 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?

Sure.  QtMobility isn't part of the OS, which is causing all the pain
here, and the bundled applications like the browser have to do the same
thing, of course, without QtMobility.