Brew (Binary Runtime Environment For Wireless, Wireless Binary Running Environment) provides an efficient, low-cost, scalable and familiar application execution environment (AEE), focusing on applications that can be seamlessly implanted with any actual handheld devices.
BREW can be easily understood as an application operating environment, some special application developers use this platform to write programs (including Java, XML, etc.) with any computer language. Mobile phones installed and supported by users, users can implement dozens of data services such as download games, applications, GPS positioning, wireless shopping.
As early as three or four years ago, Qualcomm started to develop BREW technology when he did a mobile phone, and he took tens of millions of dollars every year. Since the restriction of the mobile phone department, Qualcomm has set up a BREW-based Internet service company based on BREW.
2001
January
31st
The BREW platform is officially launched.
What did BREW bring? Instant messaging, email, intelligent navigation, synchronous office application software, photo sharing and video, and the latest news, of course, there is also a game.
l Brew business breakthrough
Brew adheses distinctive ideas: connecting mobile market value chains, including applications developers, publishers, content providers, equipment manufacturers, operators, and users, and full products and services specializing in the global wireless data market. This is the criterion for QUALCOMM uses BREW, and is the key to BREW continues to maintain industry leadership. It is based on this BREW concept, which can develop and provide new wireless data products and services to the publishers, developers, operators, and hand-held equipment manufacturers. If you are one of them, you will find that Brew's entry threshold is very low, potential risks are also very low, because BREW standing is the basis of achieving goals in the simplest and convenient way. that's the truth.
l BREW programming environment
BREW's API (application interface) and SDK (software development tool) greatly simplifies the development of wireless applications with C, C , and other languages. BREW's API organizes a set of interface classes, each class definition provides a set of functions for a particular service, so that developers do not need to understand the internal mechanism of the device, can also engage in wireless applications.
Since the BREW API can be applied to a variety of devices, programs written in BREW API can easily transplant from one wireless device to other wireless devices. So developers programmed once, they can run in a variety of devices. Although different devices may be fine-tuned due to different display sizes, most of this subtle adjustment can be easily tested in BREW Emulator. BrewAPI can support extensions, device vendors, operators, and developers to write plug-in classes to expand the functionality of BREW.
l BREW's application execution environment (AEE)
Device vendors integrate it in their respective software to support BREW APIs and operating environments. AEE is provided in a new terminal device to provide the device manufacturer to use the AEE, in addition to providing the BREW API service, AEE manages the implementation of the application, responds to users and some emergency, such as calls and SMS calls. For example, a running BREW application When there is an incoming call, it can be paused immediately; and after the call is completed, the work is automatically recovered.
l Brew Emulator
A aee's Windows port is provided, so BREW Emulator can run a small program for Windows.
l Make sure BREW application security download
A independent test process called True Brew ensures that the developer's application mode is safely stably running on the terminal, and is compatible with the BREW platform. The terminal that supports BREW can only run the application of developers, operators, and Qualcomm digital signatures. Some operators only provide applications that have been tested by TRUE BREW.
l ARM kernel
BREW uses the ARM kernel to support a range of operating systems and telephone services. A terminal that supports BREW runs all ARM architecture based on an embedded RISC microprocessor.
