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Active UX Restrictions Viewer

Displays current driver distraction-based UX (User Experience) restrictions.

"Active UX Restrictions Viewer screenshot with active restrictions"

Building and deploying the example

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Overview

This example demonstrates usage of Qt Driver Distractions API for Android Automotive to detect changes to car driving state and UX restrictions. The application UI is created using Qt Quick.

The app displays specific restrictions such as maximum content depth, maximum cumulative content items and maximum restricted string length as well as the active and inactive UX restriction flags.

When UX restrictions change, the display shows the updated UX restriction flags and specific restrictions.

Including the API

To use the Driver Distraction API within QML we first need to import the Qt Driver State module.

import QtAndroidAutomotive.AndroidDriverState

Accessing Specific Restrictions

In order to read specific UX restrictions we can use the corresponding properties from DriverDistractions, which will be automatically updated when new restriction state is received.

            Label {
                text: DriverDistraction.maxContentDepth
                font.pointSize: 36
            }
            Label {
                text: DriverDistraction.maxCumulativeContentItems
                font.pointSize: 36
            }
            Label {
                text: DriverDistraction.maxRestrictedStringLength
                font.pointSize: 36
            }

Detecting Current UX Restriction Level

Current UX restriction level can be checked via the currentRestrictions property from DriverDistractions. A Flow layout with a delegate for each flag is used to display all flags at once, with active flags displayed in bright green and inactive flags displayed in gray.

        Flow {
            Layout.maximumWidth: parent.width
            Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignHCenter
            spacing: 10

            Repeater {
                model: [
                    { value: DriverDistraction.Baseline, label: qsTr("Baseline") },
                    { value: DriverDistraction.NoDialpad, label: qsTr("No Dialpad") },
                    { value: DriverDistraction.NoFiltering, label: qsTr("No Filtering") },
                    { value: DriverDistraction.LimitStringLength,
                        label: qsTr("Limit String Length") },
                    { value: DriverDistraction.NoKeyboard, label: qsTr("No Keyboard") },
                    { value: DriverDistraction.NoVideo, label: qsTr("No Video") },
                    { value: DriverDistraction.LimitContent, label: qsTr("Limit Content") },
                    { value: DriverDistraction.NoSetup, label: qsTr("No Setup") },
                    { value: DriverDistraction.NoTextMessage, label: qsTr("No Text Message") },
                    { value: DriverDistraction.NoVoiceTranscription,
                        label: qsTr("No Voice Transcription") }
                ]

                delegate: Label {
                    text: modelData.label
                    verticalAlignment: Text.AlignVCenter
                    padding: 10
                    font.pointSize: 36

                    background: Rectangle {
                        readonly property bool active:
                            DriverDistraction.currentRestrictions & modelData.value
                        color: active ? "#41cd52" : "#a0a0a4"
                        opacity: active ? 1 : 0.5
                    }
                }
            }
        }

Interacting With the Active UX Restrictions Viewer app

In order to enable some UX restrictions, do the following:

  1. Open the app in an Automotive emulator
  2. Open the emulator menu Extended controls > Car data
  3. Set Gear to Drive
  4. Set Car speed to non-zero value.

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