Introducing Qt Simulator

Qt Simulator allows you to quickly test and debug applications that target mobile devices, without the overhead of emulating the device at hardware level. It provides special versions of the Qt and Qt Mobility libraries that forward the display and settings to it.

You can link applications that use the Qt and Qt Mobility APIs to these libraries to run them inside Qt Simulator. This allows you to see how applications look and function on different devices in different situations. For example, you can view the application layout on Symbian and Maemo devices, in both landscape and portrait orientation. Or you can check how your application behaves when device battery power decreases to low or critical level.

Qt Simulator does not support any device specific APIs by design. Therefore, applications that run well on Qt Simulator also run on any device that hosts the Qt and Qt Mobility libraries.

The following Qt Mobility components are supported:

• Bearer Management
• Contacts
• Location
• Messaging
• Publish and Subscribe
• Qt Service Framework
• Sensors
• System Information
• Versit

Note: Qt Simulator does not have support for catching memory leaks in applications. Memory leaks occur when memory that has been allocated is not freed. To catch memory leaks, use the dynamic analysis tools available for the platform. For example, you can use Valgrind on Maemo and Symbian Emulator and Carbide tools on Symbian.