copy your favourite nokia app with qt

Copy Your Favorite Nokia AppsAriya Hidayat 09/25/09

Agenda

• Mobile platform challenges:– differences vs desktop– things to keep in mind

• Examples which demonstrate:– Low-level painting– Graphics View– Network and web stack

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All examples are available from...

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Desktop vs Mobile Platforms

• Hardware power

• Screen size and resolutions

• Input method

• Network access

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Nokia N95

• CPU: 332 MHz ARM11

• RAM: 128 MB

• Screen: 240 x 320 (QVGA)

• 9-Button keypad

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Nokia E71

• CPU: 369 MHz ARM11

• RAM: 128 MB

• Screen: 320x240 (QVGA)

• Full QWERTY Keypad

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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

• CPU: 434 MHz ARM11

• RAM: 128 MB

• Screen: 360 x 640 (nHD)

• Touch interface

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Processing Power

• ARM architecture– Different than x86

• Limited memory

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Graphics Power

• Lower resolution

• Software rendering– hardware acceleration with OpenGL ES

• Font metrics

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Input Methods

• Keypad, not keyboard– often not full QWERTY

• No mouse– don't bother with mouse move event

• Touch interface– single vs multitouch– stylus vs finger

• Sensors: accelerometer, GPS, compass, ...

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Network Access

• Wireless LAN– sometimes not available

• Other data access– slower data rate

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Development Flow

• Device emulator

• Remote debugging

• Performance test

• Profiling tools

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Example #1

Digital Clock

Digital (Vintage) Clock

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Framed Digits

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plain digits with frame

gradient

Gradient is Expensive, so...

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QLinearGradient gr(QPoint(0, 0), QPoint(0, height));gr.setColorAt(0.00, QColor(128, 128, 128));gr.setColorAt(0.49, QColor(64, 64, 64));gr.setColorAt(0.51, QColor(128, 128, 128));gr.setColorAt(1.00, QColor(16, 16, 16));

QPainter p;p.begin(&pixmap);p.setFont(font);QPen pen;pen.setBrush(QBrush(gr));p.setPen(pen);p.drawText(pixmap.rect(), Qt::AlignCenter, str);p.end();

Cache to a pixmap

Sliding Effect

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translating both pixmaps

Sliding Effect: The Code

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QPainter p(this);int y = height() * currentFrame / 100;p.drawPixmap(0, y, m_lastPixmap);p.drawPixmap(0, y - height(), m_pixmap);p.end();

Rotation

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transform.rotate(30, Qt::ZAxis)

Perspective Transformation

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transform.rotate(60, Qt::YAxis)

transform.rotate(60, Qt::XAxis)

Rotating Effect

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rotating pixmaps

Rotating Effect: The Code

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QTransform transform;transform.translate(width() / 2, height() / 2);transform.rotate(angle, Qt::XAxis);

QPainter p(this);p.setTransform(transform);p.drawPixmap(-width() / 2, -height() / 2, pixmap);p.end();

Flipping Effect

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rotating and interleaving

two pixmaps

A Trick with QBasicTimer

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QBasicTimer ticker;ticker.start(1000, this);

void timerEvent(QTimerEvent*){ // update the clock}

No need for QTimer, a slot, and

periodic triggering of signal/slot !

QTimeLine for Frame-based Animation

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QTimeLine animator;animator.setFrameRange(0, 100);animator.setDuration(600);animator.setCurveShape(QTimeLine::EaseInOutCurve);

int progress = animator.currentFrame();

EaseInOutLinear

acceleration

deacceleration

Sacrifice Quality for Speed

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Aliasing during Animation

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QPainter p(this);p.setRenderHint(QPainter::SmoothPixmapTransform, false);p.setRenderHint(QPainter::Antialiasing, false);

Example #2

Weather Info

Weather Info

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Screen Orientation

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requires different layout strategy

Lock the Orientation

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#include <eikenv.h>#include <eikappui.h>#include <aknenv.h>#include <aknappui.h>

CAknAppUi* appUi = dynamic_cast<CAknAppUi*> (CEikonEnv::Static()->AppUi());appUi->SetOrientationL (CAknAppUi::EAppUiOrientationPortrait);

S60-specific, usually you do NOT need to do this!

Animation with Graphics View

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item movement &

opacity

Using Web Service

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<weather><forecast_information> <city data="Oslo, Oslo"/> <postal_code data="Oslo"/> <latitude_e6 data=""/><longitude_e6 data=""/> <forecast_date data="2009-09-15"/> <current_date_time data="2009-09-15 13:40:00 +0000"/> <unit_system data="US"/></forecast_information><current_conditions> <condition data="Clear"/> <temp_f data="61"/><temp_c data="16"/> <humidity data="Humidity: 55%"/> <icon data="/ig/images/weather/sunny.gif"/> <wind_condition data="Wind: S at 12 mph"/></current_conditions><forecast_conditions>...

Create the Network Request

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http://www.google.com/ig/api?hl=en&weather=oslo

QUrl url("http://www.google.com/ig/api");url.addEncodedQueryItem("hl", "en");url.addEncodedQueryItem("weather", QUrl::toPercentEncoding(location));

QNetworkAccessManager *manager;manager = new QNetworkAccessManager(this);connect(manager, SIGNAL(finished(QNetworkReply*)), this,SLOT(handleNetworkData(QNetworkReply*)));

manager->get(QNetworkRequest(url));

Handle the Network Reply

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http://www.google.com/ig/api?hl=en&weather=oslo

QUrl url = networkReply->url();data = QString::fromUtf8(networkReply->readAll());networkReply->deleteLater();networkReply->manager()->deleteLater();

XML Stream Reader for Parsing

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QXmlStreamReader xml(data);while (!xml.atEnd()) { xml.readNext(); if (xml.tokenType() == QXmlStreamReader::StartElement) if (xml.name() == "city") city = xml.attributes().value("data").toString()}

faster and requires less memory than

using QDom!

Scalable Icons with SVG

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bitmap vs vector

Optimize Your SVG

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Because one element in a group often

does not make sense!

<g> <ellipse cx="10" cy="10" rx=2" ry="2"/></g>

<ellipse cx="10" cy="10" rx=2" ry="2"/>

SVG Loading Time Comparison

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Use tools like:

codedread.com/scour

svgmin.googlecode.com

Example #3

Flight Tracking

Flight Tracking

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No Web Service?

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Use “mobile” version of the web site.

Web Scraping

• Grab the HTML contents

• Scrap it– remove unnecessary clutters– parse and extract the interesting bits

• Legal aspect– some sites explicitly prohibit the use other than

in a web browser

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Parsing HTML with XML Stream Reader

• HTML != XML

• Potentially provoke the parser (→ errors)– Solution: “scrub it”, i.e. clean up the raw HTML

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// remove all inline frameswhile (true) { i = data.indexOf("<iframe"); if (i < 0) break; data.remove(i, data.indexOf("</iframe>") - i + 8);}

The Usual Tricks

• Use network request and reply

• Contents– Construct the request– Get the HTML data– Clean it up and then parse it

• Flight map– Construct the request– Get data and feed it to a QPixmap– Display the pixmap, e.g. with QLabel

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Beware of Different Font Metrics

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Example #4

Magnifying Glass

Image Zoom

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Shadow with Radial Gradient

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magnifier

Shadow with Radial Gradient

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QRadialGradient g;g.setCenter(radius, radius);g.setFocalPoint(radius, radius);g.setRadius(radius);g.setColorAt(1.0, QColor(255, 255, 255, 0));g.setColorAt(0.5, QColor(128, 128, 128, 255));

Prepare the gradient brush

p.setCompositionMode (QPainter::CompositionMode_Source);p.setBrush(g);p.drawRect(maskPixmap.rect());

p.setBrush(QColor(Qt::transparent));p.drawEllipse(g.center(), radius-15, radius-15);

Draw the shadow

Carve the “hole”

Panning with Mouse/Finger/Stylus

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void mousePressEvent(QMouseEvent *event) { if (event->buttons() != Qt::LeftButton) return; pressed = true; pressPos = dragPos = event->pos();}

Record the tap position

void mouseMoveEvent(QMouseEvent *event) { if (!event->buttons()) return; QPoint delta = event->pos() - pressPos; pressPos = event->pos(); pan(delta);}

Pan the map based on the movement

Avoid Accidental Panning

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panning is not started past the threshold

Turbo Downscaling (We're Cheating!)

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Fast, no filtering

With filtering

Up to 200x faster,

see http://bit.ly/cheatscale for details!

Example #5

Maps

Maps (with OpenStreetMap)

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OpenStreetMap vs [Google,Yahoo]Maps

• Free content– Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

• API does not require the license key

• Available in– rendered images– vector data

More info at www.openstreetmap.org !

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Getting the Rendered Tiles

• Each tile is 256 x 256 pixels

• Zoom level of 0 → the whole world

• Zoom level of 17 → most detailed

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QPointF tileForCoordinate(qreal lat, qreal lng, int zoom){ qreal zn = static_cast<qreal>(1 << zoom); qreal tx = (lng + 180.0) / 360.0; qreal ty = (1.0 - log(tan(lat * M_PI / 180.0) + 1.0 / cos(lat * M_PI / 180.0)) / M_PI) / 2.0; return QPointF(tx * zn, ty * zn);}

Rendering and Caching Strategy

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application windowcached tiles

Avoid Accidental Panning

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panning is not started past the threshold

Night Mode

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Night Mode: The Code

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QPainter p(this);p.setCompositionMode (QPainter::CompositionMode_Difference);p.fillRect(event->rect(), Qt::white);p.end();

Color channel inversion

red = 255 – red

green = 255 – green

blue = 255 - blue

Example #6

Kinetic Scrolling

Kinetic Scrolling

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State Machine for Scrolling

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Steady

Pressed

Manual Scroll

Auto Scroll

Stop

Mouse press

Mouse release

Mouse move

Mouse release

Mouse release Mouse press

Mousemove

Timer tick

Example #7

Parallax Sliding

Parallax Sliding

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Slow-moving Background

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Example #8

Web Technologies

Web Browser

• QtWebKit:– Standard compliant, fast rendering engine– Used in Apple Safari, Google Chrome, …– S60 Browser, Apple iPhone, Google Android,

Palm WebOS, …

• Use QWebView and you are done!

• Add flick support for kinetic scrolling

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Google Chat Client

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We Cheat (Again)!

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• Use QWebView from QtWebKit

• Show the “mobile” version

• Add custom login page

Example #9

Unfinished Mini-game

Ray Casting

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Made Popular in (DOS) Wolfenstein 3-D

• A single ray is traced for every column

• Grid-based world, uniform height → fast

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Shading Trick

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Direct Screen Blit

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setAttribute(Qt::WA_OpaquePaintEvent, true);

Don't bother “clearing” the widget!

Faster direct screen access using

CDirectScreenBitmap or

Anti-Tearing API

Bypass Alpha-Blending

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QPainter p(this);p.setCompositionMode(QPainter::Composition_Source)p.drawImage(0, 0, buffer);

Since we handle each and every pixel, ...

Storing Pixels in Image

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Memory Access Optimization

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Minimize location (in memory) betweentwo vertically separated pixels

Jump several hundreds bytes

Jump fewbytes only

Inner Loop Approach

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while (y1 >= 0 && y2 < bufh && p1 >= 0) { *pixel1 = tex[p1 >> 12]; *pixel2 = tex[p2 >> 12]; p1 -= dy; p2 += dy; --y1; ++y2; pixel1 -= stride; pixel2 += stride;}

Use only simple, 12-bits fixed-point arithmetics

Conclusion

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Mobile application developmentwith Qt is FUN

That's all, folks...

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Thank You!

Bleeding-Edge

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