MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan Developer Documentation Develop for the Nokia N9

Communications

Communications topics consist of APIs related to social and human interaction, connectivity, and networking.

The following table describes the Communications APIs:

Communications services APIs
API name Description Belongs to
In-App Analytics API
  • Provides a configurable data tracking and delivery mechanism to allow application developers to monitor how their applications are used
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NDEF Message Push
  • Provides a Qt-based API to push NFC (Near Field Communication) messages to other devices.
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Notification Engine
  • Allows applications on the device to register and receive notifications from the Notification Service
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QtDBus
  • Enables inter-Process Communication using the D-Bus

Example use: Your application polls a website for new content availability and offers the information gathered to other applications through D-Bus. Your application can also query information offered by other applications in the same way.

Qt
QtMessaging
  • Enables access to messaging services
  • Can search, sort, send, and retrieve messages.
  • Can start the preferred messaging client to display a message, compose a new message, or to reply to an existing message
  • Supports SMS, MMS, MIME Email and TNEF Email messages

Example use: You can send photographs directly from your photograph gallery application through e-mail to a friend.

Qt Mobility
QtNetwork
  • Classes for network programming
  • Opening, maintaining and closing of network sessions using various protocols
  • Servers for accepting connections

Example use: To add a support for network based features to your application, such as connecting to a local WLAN network and fetching data to be used in your application.

Qt
Qt WebKit 2.1
  • Provides a Web browser engine that makes it easy to embed content from the World Wide Web into your Qt application.
  • At the same time Web content can be enhanced with native controls.

Example use: To enable your application to embed data from the web, such as the ongoing week's lottery numbers, or recent messages from a social application.

Qt
Telepathy-Qt4
  • Telepathy-Qt4 is a Qt4 high-level binding for Telepathy, which is a D-Bus framework for unifying real time communication.

Example use: To allow access to services such as instant messaging, voice calls, and video calls.

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Transfer UI
  • Provides way for Qt based applications to request Transfer UI to present transfers of application to user.
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