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Software Development for the QUALCOMM BREW Platform

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Authors:
  1. Ray Rischpater

    1. Rocket Mobile, USA

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  • Relays both technical material (such as APIs) as well as non-technical processes crucial to success
  • Follows the development of a successful application from design through deployment with a major wireless carrier (Verizon Wireless)
  • Gives abundant examples covering APIs as well as a skeleton application readers can use as the basis of their own applications

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introducing the QUALCOMM BREW Platform

    • Ray Rischpater
    Pages 1-20

  3. Designing for the QUALCOMM BREW Platform

    • Ray Rischpater
    Pages 21-32

  4. Developing for the QUALCOMM BREW Platform

    • Ray Rischpater
    Pages 33-62

  5. Handling Events

    • Ray Rischpater
    Pages 63-106

  6. Interacting with the User

    • Ray Rischpater
    Pages 107-158

  7. Streaming Data

    • Ray Rischpater
    Pages 159-171

  8. Storing Data

    • Ray Rischpater
    Pages 173-201

  9. Drawing Graphics

    • Ray Rischpater
    Pages 203-235

  10. Playing with Sounds

    • Ray Rischpater
    Pages 237-251

  11. Networking Your Data

    • Ray Rischpater
    Pages 253-265

  12. Controlling the Handset

    • Ray Rischpater
    Pages 267-285

  13. Certifying Your Application

    • Ray Rischpater
    Pages 287-295

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 297-324
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About this book

QUALCOMM Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) is a development platform allowing software developers to create applications that operate on all handsets utilizing QUALCOMM CDMA chipsets. This cutting-edge book introduces BREW and describes differences from product competitors like J2ME, Palm OS, Symbian, and Pocket PC Phone Edition.

BREW offers a number of key advantages over other software environments, like secure application licensing, integrated billing, and down-to-the-metal APIs for high-performance applications. You'll learn what it takes to develop applications for BREW—not just development tools, but the methodology required to bring an application to a carrier for distribution.

Over 1 million BREW-enabled handsets shipped during BREW's first year. And BREW is involved with both major domestic carriers (such as Verizon Wireless, boasting over 37 million subscribers) and overseas carriers. Thus, BREW is poised as a key player in the wireless handset space.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Rocket Mobile, USA

    Ray Rischpater

About the author

Ray Rischpater is a freelance consultant and author with over eight years of experience writing about and developing for handheld computing platforms. During this time, Ray has participated in the development of Internet technologies for J2ME, QUALCOMM BREW, Palm OS, Newton, and Magic Cap, and proprietary operating systems for vertical handheld computers. In addition, he's consulted during the development of websites for wireless devices using HTML and WAP. Ray is a senior software engineer at Rocket Mobile, Inc. and holds a bachelor's degree in pure mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Wireless Web Development, Second Edition and Wireless Web Development with PHP and WAP.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Software Development for the QUALCOMM BREW Platform

  • Authors: Ray Rischpater

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0802-0

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Ray Rischpater 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-59059-116-1Published: 15 September 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-0802-0Published: 01 January 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 344

  • Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Mobile Computing, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems

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