On Symbian, graphics memory consumption is an important consideration,
because many of the current devices have a limited amount of graphics
memory, which is shared by both the graphics stack (for OpenGLES /
OpenVG rendering) and the camera/video stack.  For this reason, being
able to track the amount of graphics memory being consumed by a given
use case can be useful during application development.  This application
demonstrates how this can be done, by using some native code to query
graphics memory consumption information from a platform API, and a QML
element to display this on screen in an overlay item.

Starting with Symbian Anna, the platform implements an EGL extension
called EGL_NOK_resource_profiling.  This allows the client to query

\list
    \o Total graphics memory
    \o Total currently used graphics memory
    \o Graphics memory used by calling process
\endlist

Being an EGL extension, this API isn't particularly friendly to use, so
this example provides a simple Qt wrapper:

\quotefromfile video/snippets/graphicsmemorymonitor/graphicsmemorymonitor.h
\skipto class GraphicsMemoryMonitor : public QObject
\printuntil updateIntervalChanged)
\dots
\skipto };
\printline };

This class is exposed to QML like this:

\quotefromfile video/snippets/graphicsmemorymonitor/graphicsmemorymonitordeclarative.cpp
\skipto GraphicsMemoryMonitor::qmlRegisterType
\printuntil }

And then the information is displayed by the GraphicsMemoryItem element:

\quotefromfile video/snippets/graphicsmemorymonitor/qml/graphicsmemorymonitor/GraphicsMemoryItem.qml
\skipto import
\printuntil /^\}/

The result looks like this:

\image video-graphics-memory.png