CSE-40729 BREW Software Development

General Information

This Qualcomm-approved, hands-on course offered through University of California San Diego (UCSD) provides the information needed to design and build software applications for Qualcomm’s Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) platform. The highly focused course concentrates on practical, hands-on experience developing BREW applications using the SDK and tools provided by Qualcomm. Experience in C/C++ is required.

Course syllabus
Enrollment information

Recommended Books

Software Development for the Qualcomm Brew Platform
Ray Rischpater, Apress, 2003
Link to book on Amazon
Link to book's website to download code examples

Wireless Game Development in C/C++ with Brew
Ralph Barbagallo, Wordware Publishing, 2003
Link to book on Amazon
Link to book's website to download code examples 

OpenGL ES Game Development
Dave Astle & Dave Durnil, Course Technology, 2004
Link to book on Amazon

Useful Developer Websites

Qualcomm Brew Developer
Qualcomm Brew Gaming (as important as Brew Developer above)
Verizon Wireless

DevX Wireless Zone
Developer.com
PaloWireless
GameDev.net
HowardForums

List of BREW Extensions

Wireless Industry News

Unstrung
Wireless Week
InfosyncWorld
RCR Wireless News

Engadget Mobile
Gizmodo
MobileTracker.net
CameraPhoneReport
MobileTelevisionReport

Brew Applications Developers and Publishers

San Diego
Publishers
Digital Orchid
Hands-on Mobile (formerly mForma)

Developers
eMbience
Four Corners Development
Telca

Tools / Technologies
Entriq
Kyocera
LG Electronics
Motorola
Packet Video
Qualcomm
V-Enable
Zaxis

MVNOs
Leap Wireless

Los Angeles Area
Publishers
Disney Mobile Studios
Fox
Jamdat
Juice Wireless
Moviso (now division of Infospace)
Sony
Superscape
Vivendi Universal Games

MVNOs
Amp'd Mobile
Boost Mobile
Helio

Bay Area
Publishers
Digital Chocolate
GLU
Electronic Arts
Hudson Entertainment
Namco Games
Gameloft

Others

Infospace (Seattle)

Downloads for BREW class

Link to Microsoft Visual C++ Express Edition (FREE)
Link to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (90 day trial available)

- Class project description
- Class project grading
- Class project documentation template

- Code Examples Handout
- GPS PowerPoint Handout
- ISprite PowerPoint Handout
- OpenGL ES PowerPoint Handout
- UIOne PowerPoint Handout

Student Guide Inserts
- Section 1 Inserts
- Section 2 Inserts
- Section 3 Inserts
- Section 4 Inserts
- Section 5 Inserts
- Section 6 Inserts

- Using Visual Studio 2005 with BREW
- Lab 1.3.2 starting point
- Lab 1.4.1 solution
- Lab 1.4.2 solution
- Lab 2.2 starting point
- Lab 2.2 solution
- Lab 3.1 starting point
- Lab 4.1 starting point
- Lab 4.2 starting point
- dog.bci file
- Lab 4.2 solution
- Lab 4.3 starting point
- sample.mp3 file
- Lab 4.3 solution
- Lab 5.1 final
- Lab 5.2 final
- IWeb Code Sample
- IWEB doc from Qualcomm
- Lab 5.3 final
- Lab 6.3 final

- GCC Install and Documentation (80Meg)
- Brew Training Labs 2003
- Brew SDK 1.1 Examples Folder (8Meg) -- Uploaded 11/11/2008
- OpenGL ES Examples Folder -- Uploaded 11/27/2008

Visual Studio.NET C++ Tutorials

Creating a C++ Console Application
Intro to Visual C++.NET
Visual C++ Debugger