QMimeDatabase and QMimeType are new classes introduced in Qt 5. MIME, which stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, is an Internet standard for identifying file formats. The MIME standard was originally created to support attachment of files in e-mail messages. A good reference for MIME can be found here.

The QMimeDatabase class returns information about the database of MIME types on a system. Instances of the QMimeType class describe the type of a file or data.

QScreen is a new class introduced in Qt 5.0.0 that returns information about screen properties, where screen here refers to a display, such as a monitor or LCD panel.

[Update: It was pointed out that Qt 4 has a class named QScreen. However, the QScreenclass in Qt 4 was entirely different from the one in Qt 5 with different APIs and used for a different purpose. So I really consider them to be different classes.]

Written by Alan Ezust and Paul Ezust
Foreword by Lars Knoll

This week was a little slow as some people were away for the holidays. The new callback-qtimplementation by Viras got committed to github and we are now working with that version.

There was no blog posting last week because I was away for some vacation in a warm place.

This week work continued implementing the APIs for Accelerometer and Notification and using the Qt Simulator for testing.

This week we finished implementing some Cordova APIs (at least for the Qt 4 version). Compass and Accelerometer are done and some of Events was implemented. Notification is done as is most of File support and we are starting work on Contacts and Camera.

Note that I am going to start consistently using the name Cordova rather than Callback orPhoneGap for this project.

This week we switched to the new repository. Some pull requests from the old repository had to be resubmitted. Changes were committed for :