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\page portingqmlapp.html
\title Porting QML Applications to Qt 5 Example
\brief Provides step-by-step instructions to port a QML application to Qt 5.

The new version of Qt Quick in Qt 5 brings in some changes to the way QML
applications are developed. For the complete list of changes that affect
existing QML applications, refer to \l{Porting QML Applications to Qt 5}.

This topic will walk through the porting process to make the \c{flickr} Qt 4
QML demo work on Qt 5. If you have the SDK based on Qt 4.8 installed, you can
find this demo application under
\c{<install_dir_root>/Examples/4.x/declarative/demos/}.

Follow these step-by-step instructions to port the \e{flickr} Qt 4 QML
application work to Qt 5:
\list 1
 \li Open the \e{flickr} project using Qt Creator.
 \li Edit all the \c{.qml} files and replace the \c{import QtQuick 1.0} statements
     with \c{import QtQuick 2.0}.
 \li Add the additional \c{import QtQuick.XmlListModel 2.0} statement to
     \c{qml/common/RssModel.qml}.

     \note \l{Qt Quick XmlListModel QML Types}{XmlListModel} is part of a
     submodule under \l{QtQuick} and it must be imported explicitly in order
     to use it.

 \li Make the following changes to
     \c{qmlapplicationviewer/qmlapplicationviewer.h}:
  \list
   \li Replace the \c{#include <QtDeclarative/QDeclarativeView>} with
       \c{#include <QQuickView>}.
   \li Replace \c{QDeclarativeView} with \c{QQuickView} in the class
       declaration for \c{QmlApplicationViewer}.
   \li Replace the parameter for \c{QmlApplicationViewer} constructor from
       \c{QWidget} to \c{QWindow}.
  \endlist
 \li Make the following changes to
     \c{qmlapplicationviewer/qmlapplicationviewer.cpp}:
  \list
   \li Replace all the \c{QtCore} and \c{QtDeclarative} include statements with
       these:
    \code
      #include <QCoreApplication>