Demonstrates calling Java code from an Android application.
This example demonstrates how to add a custom Java class to an Android application, and how to call into this using the JNI convenience APIs in the Qt Android Extras module. The application UI is created by using Qt Quick.
Click on either of the smiley faces to put a notification in the status area of the Android device.
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We define a custom Java class called NotificationClient
in the NotificationClient.java file:
package org.qtproject.example.notification; import android.app.Notification; import android.app.NotificationManager; import android.content.Context; public class NotificationClient extends org.qtproject.qt5.android.bindings.QtActivity { private static NotificationManager m_notificationManager; private static Notification.Builder m_builder; private static NotificationClient m_instance; public NotificationClient() { m_instance = this; } public static void notify(String s) { if (m_notificationManager == null) { m_notificationManager = (NotificationManager)m_instance.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE); m_builder = new Notification.Builder(m_instance); m_builder.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.icon); m_builder.setContentTitle("A message from Qt!"); } m_builder.setContentText(s); m_notificationManager.notify(1, m_builder.build()); } }
In the NotificationClient C++ class header file, notificationclient.h, we declare a simple C++ API to display notifications on an Android device. It consists of a single string property, notification
, and a slot,
updateAndroidNotification()
, that calls the Java code:
Q_PROPERTY(QString notification READ notification WRITE setNotification NOTIFY notificationChanged) ... private slots: void updateAndroidNotification();
A NotificationClient object is exposed to the QML in the main source file, main.cpp:
QQuickView view; NotificationClient *notificationClient = new NotificationClient(&view); view.engine()->rootContext()->setContextProperty(QLatin1String("notificationClient"), notificationClient);
In the NotificationClient C++ class source file, notificationclient.cpp, we import the QtAndroidJniObject class to be able to use its functions:
#include <QtAndroidExtras/QAndroidJniObject>
We connect the notificationChanged()
signal to the updateAndroidNotification()
slot to update the notification text when the notification
property changes:
NotificationClient::NotificationClient(QObject *parent) : QObject(parent) { connect(this, SIGNAL(notificationChanged()), this, SLOT(updateAndroidNotification())); }
The NotificationClient::updateAndroidNotification()
function calls the Java method. We construct a Java string from the notification
string property:
void NotificationClient::updateAndroidNotification() { QAndroidJniObject javaNotification = QAndroidJniObject::fromString(m_notification);
And pass the string object as a parameter to the Java notify()
method. Note that we must supply the signature ourselves:
QAndroidJniObject::callStaticMethod<void>("org/qtproject/example/notification/NotificationClient", "notify", "(Ljava/lang/String;)V", javaNotification.object<jstring>()); }
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See also Qt for Android and Qt Android Extras.
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