[Android-development] Attempting a port to Android - Notes and Suggestions

[Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt]

On 02/25/2013 03:44 PM, Patricia Aas wrote:
>> I think this is a down-side of specifying file system paths in the QMLs
>> explicitly.
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> But I don't see a way I can keep the qmls as qrc's and not have the 
> images as qrc's and have cross platform code. Am I missing something?

You could have the QML in the assets as well (which would mean disabling 
the RESOURCES += on android in the .pro file). Then relative paths would 
work inside the QML, but the file:/ paths would still point to the file 
system.

I noted this on IRC, but I'll repeat it here, to make sure it's archived 
along side the rest:

Maybe it would make sense to

1. Make a portability flag of some sort which would cause all relative 
file system paths to be relative to the assets:/ prefix, since this is 
the expected location for the application to find its files. It does 
sound a little ad hoc though.

2. Add an application: scheme which would always resolve to the 
application's working directory, whether that's inside the bundle like 
on Android, next to the executable like on Windows/Linux or wherever it 
is on Mac (foo.app/Contents/Resources?), etc.

-- Eskil