[maemo-developers] How to create a MAFW plugin for Harmattan in Qt?

[From: pedro.larroy at nokia.com]

So it skips song when you wal around?


:)

Pedro.
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From: maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org [maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org] on behalf of ext Sudheer K. [scifi1947 at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 8:39 PM
To: maemo-developers at maemo.org
Subject: How to create a MAFW plugin for Harmattan in Qt?

I am trying to create a plugin for Harmattan audio player that can be used to skip current song by shaking the phone. I got it to work by creating a daemon and monitoring dbus signals for mafw renderer. But I am looking for a more cleaner approach if it exists.

I have looked at the very detailed Media Application Framework wiki on maemo.org<http://maemo.org> [1] and the source code on maemo garage but I am still (more) confused.

These are the basic questions I have.

- How can the audio player (or MAFW) recognize that a plugin exists and it has to be loaded when the player is launched?

- Is a Renderer type of plugin/extension suitable for my use case? Can an extension just add on to what the default Renderer is doing (like modify only play/pause/next methods)?

- Is it possible to do any of these things using qmafw (Qt) without touching GLib?

Can anyone shed some light?

~Sudheer

[1] http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide/Using_Multimedia_Components/Media_Application_Framework_(MAFW)
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