翻译文献Introducing the QUALCOMM BREW Platform.docVIP

大连交通大学2016届本科生毕业设计（论文）外文翻译  PAGE - 10 - 外文原文 Introducing the QUALCOMM BREW Platform Software Development for the QUALCOMM BREW Platform By Ray Rischpater The QUALCOMM Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) platform is an exciting step forward in mobile application development. Within the QUALCOMM BREW platform there’s a powerful set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that you use with C to build your application for wireless handsets. Once you complete your application, you can submit it to QUALCOMM for external validation and from there to wireless carriers around the world for your customers to purchase and enjoy. This chapter gives you a quick overview of the QUALCOMM BREW platform, including what it can and can’t do and why carriers, handset manufacturers, and developers have been keen to adopt the platform. After examining the platform from a marketing perspective, the chapter sketches the architecture of the QUALCOMM BREW application, as well as gives you a thumbnail view of how to organize a QUALCOMM BREW application. Finally, the chapter closes with your first sample application written for QUALCOMM BREW—the now-famous Hello World program. Seeing the QUALCOMM BREW Platform for the First Time. If you’ve never used a QUALCOMM BREW–enabled handset, the first thing you should do is go get one and play with it. Books such as this one can’t fully capture the experience of using a QUALCOMM BREW–enabled handset, but it’ll try Most QUALCOMM BREW–enabled handsets look like regular cell phones and have the following features in common . A multline color, grayscale, or monochrome display used by the handset for both telephony operations and QUALCOMM BREW applications A directional keypad or arrow keys to navigate a selection cursor up, down, left, and right A selection key Alphanumeric entry support through either multitap (where you press a number key one or more times to navigate through successive letters) or other mechanisms such as Tegic’s T9 p