Questions tagged [brew-framework]

BREW is an application framework for mobile phones created by Qualcomm in 2001. This is not related to the macOS package manager (Homebrew).

BREW is an application framework for mobile phones. BREW was created by Qualcomm in 2001 and has evolved through several versions.

According to Qualcomm's BREW website, there are over 250 million BREW-enabled devices, comprising over 1400 handset models.

The primary development language for BREW is using the BREW SDK. A simulator application is supplied with the SDK.

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How to suppress warnings in external headers in Visual C++

I'm starting a new BREW project, and I'd like to compile with Warning Level 4 (/W4) to keep the application code nice and clean. The problem is that the BREW headers themselves don't compile cleanly with /W4. In gcc you can differentiate between…
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Disable warnings being treated as errors (cc1.exe)

I am developing a BREW application. When compiling the application to get a MOD file, I am continuously getting this error: cc1.exe: warnings being treated as errors I want to disable this warning. I have googled it, and many say disabling -werror…
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BREW: Why does anyone care for it anymore?

I am aware of the variety of possible platforms for mobile development. However, I pretty much wonder what you can tell me about Qualcomm's BREW? Why does anyone care for it anymore? I mean, with J2ME's portability (the interest in J2ME must surely…
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Is there a way to use Lua on BREW 3.0 platform?

It looks like BREW 4.0 will have Lua included. But is it possible to use Lua on older BREW 3.0 (or even BREW 2.0)?
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What parts of C++ are / aren't supported with Brew (MP)?

Hi I'm trying to find out what is and isn't possible with C++ on BrewMP. Does anybody have first hand experience of using C++ with Brew, specifically BrewMP, and can say if they have managed to get these things working on a device without too much…
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relationship between REX OS and Brew OS?

I see some devices with REX OS, but it supports Brew Zone, Applications. But BREW itself is the OS, I want to know what is the difference between REX and BREW, relationship between them. Can anyone help? Application platform is as BREW and OS is as…
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What is a reasonable timeout for acquiring a GPS fix?

I am creating a BREW app that requests the user's position. If the phone cannot acquire the position, I would like to display an error. How long should I wait for my callback to be called before I determine that the phone is not likely to get a GPS…
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Schedule app in BREW

Is there any way to launch get a BREW application started according to a schedule? This is basically the same question as this one, only for BREW instead of Windows Mobile.
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BREW: Methods to trace BPOINT error messages

Hi I'm new to BREW mobile development. And I want to know the methods on how to trace the BPOINT error messages in the simulator, like double free of memory which is the TYPE 3 of BPOINT, etc. Thanks. Kramkram
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Single application build for multiple mobile devices

Is it possible to have one application binary build for multiple mobile devices (on BREW platform), rather than making a separate build for each device using build script with conditional compilation. In particular is is possible to use single BREW…
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Multidimensional array as a flat array problem

I'm looking at two lines of code that somebody wrote and there is an exception in the 2nd one, however I don't understand why. char** array = (char**) new char [2] [6]; std_strlprintf(array[0],6,"[%d]", num); std_strlprintf is a Brew function that…
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basic ideas of brew

I want to know about Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless tutorial(Brew). Any one provide some useful links to learn brew.
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Using Trace32 with Qualcomm FFA

Does anyone knows of any resources regarding the debugging of BREW and/or BMP applications on Qualcomm FFA using Lauterbach JTAG/Trace32 (e.g. .cmm scripts, instructions etc.)? Thanks.
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BREW platform - Undefined symbol main

I'm creating application for BREW platform in C++. I'm using Visual Studio and on Brew Simulator project works fine. But there's a error while compiling ARM compilator: error: L6218E: Undefined symbol main (referred from kernel.o) I've done some…
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Trouble linking BREW objects under WinARM4.1x

I'm trying to use WinARM 4.1.1 to compile and link object files for a BREW project. I got started using this page: http://brew.wardco.com/. First thing to note is that I have this successfully working under the GNUDE tool chain. When I switched over…
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