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/*!
\page qtbluetooth-index.html
\title Qt Bluetooth
\brief Qt Bluetooth enables connectivity between Bluetooth enabled devices.
\ingroup technology-apis

The Bluetooth API provides connectivity between Bluetooth enabled devices.

Currently, the API is supported on the following platforms:

\table
\header
    \li API Feature
    \li \l {Qt for Android}{Android}
    \li \l {Qt for iOS}{iOS}
    \li \l {Qt for Linux/X11}{Linux (BlueZ 5.x)}
    \li \l \macos
    \li \l {Qt for Windows}
\row
    \li Classic Bluetooth
    \li x
    \li
    \li x
    \li x
    \li x
\row
    \li Bluetooth LE Central
    \li x
    \li x
    \li x
    \li x
    \li x
\row
    \li Bluetooth LE Peripheral
    \li x
    \li x
    \li x
    \li x
    \li
\row
    \li Bluetooth LE Advertisement & Scanning
    \li
    \li
    \li
    \li
    \li
\endtable

Qt 5.14 adds a native Win32 port supporting Classic Bluetooth on Windows 7 or newer,
and Bluetooth LE on Windows 8 or newer. It must be enabled at build time by configuration
option -native-win32-bluetooth. The UWP backend is used by default if this option is not
set and the Win32 target platform supports the required UWP APIs (minimal requirement is
Windows 10 version 1507, with slightly improved service discovery since Windows 10 version
1607).

\section1 Overview

Bluetooth is a short-range (less than 100 meters) wireless technology. It
has a data transfer rate of 2.1 Mbps, which makes it ideal
for transferring data between devices. Bluetooth connectivity is based on
basic device management, such as scanning for devices, gathering information
about them, and exchanging data between them.

Qt Bluetooth supports Bluetooth Low Energy development for client/central role
use cases. Further details can be found in the
\l {Bluetooth Low Energy Overview}{Bluetooth Low Energy Overview} section.

\section1 Using the Module

\include {module-use.qdocinc} {using the c++ api}

\section2 Building with CMake

\include {module-use.qdocinc} {building with cmake} {Bluetooth}

\section2 Building with qmake

\include {module-use.qdocinc} {building_with_qmake} {bluetooth}

\section1 Related Information

\section2 Building Qt Bluetooth

Even though the module can be built for all Qt platforms, the module is not
ported to all of them. Non-supported platforms employ a dummy backend that is
automatically selected when the platform is not supported. The dummy backend
reports appropriate error messages and values, which enables you to detect at
runtime that the current platform is not supported. The dummy backend is also
selected on Linux if BlueZ development headers are not found during build time
or Qt was built without Qt D-Bus support.

The usage of the dummy backend is highlighted via an appropriate warning while building and running.

\section3 \macos Specific
The Bluetooth API on \macos requires a certain type of event dispatcher
that in Qt causes a dependency to \l QGuiApplication. However, you can set the
environment variable \c {QT_EVENT_DISPATCHER_CORE_FOUNDATION=1} to circumvent
this issue.

Applications that don't use Classic Bluetooth will find a subset of QtBluetooth
is available, as CoreBluetooth (Bluetooth LE) don't require \l QApplication or
\l QGuiApplication.

\section2 Articles and Guides
\list
    \li \l {Qt Bluetooth Overview}{Classic Bluetooth Overview}
    \li \l {Bluetooth Low Energy Overview}
\endlist

\section2 Reference
\list
    \li \l {Qt Bluetooth C++ Classes}{C++ Classes}
\endlist

\section2 Logging Categories

The \l QtBluetooth module exports the following
\l {Configuring Categories}{logging categories}:

\table
\header
    \li Logging Category
    \li Description
\row
    \li qt.bluetooth
    \li Enables logging of cross platform code path in QtBluetooth
\row
    \li qt.bluetooth.android
    \li Enables logging of the \l {Qt for Android} {Android} implementation
\row
    \li qt.bluetooth.bluez
    \li Enables logging of the BLuez/Linux implementation
\row
    \li qt.bluetooth.ios
    \li Enables logging of the \l {Qt for iOS} {iOS} implementation
\row
    \li qt.bluetooth.osx
    \li Enables logging of the \l {Qt for macOS} {macOS} implementation
\row
    \li qt.bluetooth.windows
    \li Enables logging of the \l {Qt for Windows} implementation
\endtable

Logging categories enable additional warning and debug output for QtBluetooth.
More detailed information about logging is found in \l QLoggingCategory. A
quick way to enable all QtBluetooth logging is to add the following line to the
\c main() function:

\code
    QLoggingCategory::setFilterRules(QStringLiteral("qt.bluetooth* = true"));
\endcode

\section2 Examples
\list
    \li QML
    \list
        \li \l {pingpong}{QML Bluetooth PingPong}
        \li \l {heartrate-game}{Bluetooth Low Energy Heart Rate Game}
        \li \l {heartrate-server}{Bluetooth Low Energy Heart Rate Server}
        \li \l {lowenergyscanner}{Bluetooth Low Energy Scanner}
    \endlist
    \li C++
    \list
        \li \l {btchat}{Bluetooth Chat}
        \li \l {btscanner}{Bluetooth Scanner}
    \endlist
\endlist

\section1 Module Evolution

\l{Changes to Qt Bluetooth} lists important changes in the module
API and functionality that were done for the Qt 6 series of Qt.

\section1 Licenses and Attributions

Qt Bluetooth is available under commercial licenses from \l{The Qt Company}.
In addition, it is available under the
\l{GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3}, or
the \l{GNU General Public License, version 2}.
See \l{Qt Licensing} for further details.

On Linux, Qt Bluetooth uses a separate executable, \c sdpscanner,
to integrate with the official Linux bluetooth protocol stack
BlueZ. BlueZ is available under the \l{GNU General Public License,
version 2}.

\generatelist{groupsbymodule attributions-qtbluetooth}
*/
