<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <!-- genericbackend.qdoc --> <title>Generic Backend | Qt Sensors 5.9</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style/offline-simple.css" /> <script type="text/javascript"> document.getElementsByTagName("link").item(0).setAttribute("href", "style/offline.css"); // loading style sheet breaks anchors that were jumped to before // so force jumping to anchor again setTimeout(function() { var anchor = location.hash; // need to jump to different anchor first (e.g. none) location.hash = "#"; setTimeout(function() { location.hash = anchor; }, 0); }, 0); </script> </head> <body> <div class="header" id="qtdocheader"> <div class="main"> <div class="main-rounded"> <div class="navigationbar"> <table><tr> <td >Qt 5.9</td><td ><a href="qtsensors-index.html">Qt Sensors</a></td><td >Generic Backend</td></tr></table><table class="buildversion"><tr> <td id="buildversion" width="100%" align="right">Qt 5.9.4 Reference Documentation</td> </tr></table> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="line"> <div class="content mainContent"> <div class="sidebar"><div class="sidebar-content" id="sidebar-content"></div></div> <h1 class="title">Generic Backend</h1> <span class="subtitle"></span> <!-- $$$genericbackend.html-description --> <div class="descr"> <a name="details"></a> <p>The generic sensor backend provides emulation of some of the sensors that are not supported on the platform. For example, on a platform without a rotation sensor but with an accelerometer, the accelerometer is used to calculate the rotation, thus providing an emulated rotation sensor.</p> <p>The following generic sensors are supported:</p> <div class="table"><table class="generic"> <thead><tr class="qt-style"><th >Emulated Sensor</th><th >Source Sensor</th></tr></thead> <tr valign="top" class="odd"><td >Ambient Light Sensor</td><td >Light Sensor</td></tr> <tr valign="top" class="even"><td >Orientation Sensor</td><td >Accelerometer</td></tr> <tr valign="top" class="odd"><td >Rotation Sensor</td><td >Accelerometer</td></tr> <tr valign="top" class="even"><td >Tilt Sensor</td><td >Accelerometer</td></tr> </table></div> <p>If a platform doesn't support the source sensor, then the sensor cannot be emulated.</p> </div> <!-- @@@genericbackend.html --> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer"> <p> <acronym title="Copyright">©</acronym> 2017 The Qt Company Ltd. Documentation contributions included herein are the copyrights of their respective owners.<br> The documentation provided herein is licensed under the terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html">GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3</a> as published by the Free Software Foundation.<br> Qt and respective logos are trademarks of The Qt Company Ltd. in Finland and/or other countries worldwide. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. </p> </div> </body> </html>