QGeoSatelliteInfoSource::createDefaultSource() returns NULL on the bq phone

[Sturm Flut]

Device: bq Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition
Operating System: Ubuntu 14.10 (r21)

I am currently trying to build a clone of the "GPS Status" Android app, it displays various details about the built-in GPS receiver.

According to the developer documentation at http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/qml/sdk-14.10/QtLocation.location-positioning-cpp/ , a call to QGeoSatelliteInfoSource::createDefaultSource() can be used to get access to the default Satellite positioning source implementation.

On my device this call returns NULL.

Sample code is located at https://github.com/Sturmflut/ubuntu-touch-simple-gps/tree/3da3dc5f089e698c34765fd18322b84727cb13ae , the call in question is located at backend/modules/Simplegps/gpsdataprovider.cpp . I attached the file and its header for future reference.

[Sturm Flut (sturmflut)]

I also just found out that QGeoSatelliteInfoSource::availableSources() returns an empty list on the phone. This might point to the actual problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Thomas Voß (thomas-voss)]

We don't expose satellite visibility information to applications, yet. However, the respective information is certainly used in the service. Please watch this bug and changes to its status for tracking the feature request.

[Sturm Flut (sturmflut)]

Any updates on this?

[XiaoGuo, Liu (liu-xiao-guo)]

Is there any update on this? has it been fixed? on MX4, I got null pointer. How can I get the location info using C++?

 source = QGeoSatelliteInfoSource::createDefaultSource(this);

source is null.