Hi,
Of course, you can develop it as a standalone app. Better would be to
have some kind of deamon for that. But, in Qt you have QProcess with
which you can call any shell command (like wget).
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Faisal Ali <dev.faisalali@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:dev.faisalali@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi Dinko,
I wouldn't mind working on it and its certainly possible with
DBus, but I am wondering if such a functionality would be better
suited as an individual app or perhaps integrated deeper (Perhaps
at the level of Unity?).
I'll try to develop something that should fit my need and
hopefully will be beneficial to everyone else. I'll take this to
the core-apps mailing list to see what their thoughts are.
On 05/08/2013 03:24 AM, Dinko Osmankovic wrote:
Hi,
Maybe you can develop a download app with some functions exposed
through dbus. I'm not quite sure how if there exists qml api's
but in old qt4 there was dbus implementation. See here:
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/intro-to-dbus.html
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Faisal Ali
<dev.faisalali@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:dev.faisalali@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi all,
I am curious as to any plans for a system download manager.
Basically, a system service that will handle all the
necessary download requests for each individual application.
It would also be a place where the download history can be
viewed for every application.
Android has an api that allows apps to "request" a download.
I would imagine that it's not much different for other phones.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/DownloadManager.html
Currently, I am building a Jamendo app. With Jamendo, the
artists allow their songs to be played and downloaded by
thousands which means that in addition to streaming, I would
like to allow the user to download the song for offline
listening.
As of now, the only current method for me is to create a
custom plugin in C++ for qml which would handle the storing
of music file. Obviously, having a download manager that
could do this would be beneficial to many app developers.
So since I haven't seen any discussion (and correct me if
I'm wrong), are their any plans or ideas as to how this will
be implemented? I imagine it wouldn't be so much different
from the Android API.
Should this be a system service or a core app on its own?
- Faisal Ali
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