On 05/08/2013 09:42 AM, Dinko Osmankovic wrote: This is a great topic, we are planning a session at the upcoming vUDS to discuss this and the management of background tasks in general.
Pat > 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.faisal...@gmail.com > <mailto:dev.faisal...@gmail.com>> 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.faisal...@gmail.com <mailto:dev.faisal...@gmail.com>> 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 >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-phone> >> Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net >> <mailto:ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-phone> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > > >
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