Last Friday I had the opportunity to head down to London to see the Motorola MOTODEV Summit world tour come to town. MOTODEV is Motorola’s attempt to woo the developers of the world to their platforms and devices – attempt to capture some mind-share and give us some insight into what is around the corner for their technology. (more…)
It’s strange how many BREW specialists you can talk to who have never used ILogger. It’s not hard to see why, though: the API reference only sometimes tells you the details of how to use it, and while the ILogger overview notionally tells you what it does, you have to read it very carefully to figure out how to use it.
And when you find out what it does, it doesn’t seem like the most appropriate thing to use. (more…)
There are three persistent storage methods available directly for Java CLDC applications on BlackBerry devices:
If you’ve been following our blog, you’ll notice things have been a bit quiet recently. Business is good – and we need another software engineer. If you’re good, and willing to work in Cambridge (that would be Cambridge UK, for our US readers), then we’d love to hear from you. Experience counts, but so does passion and talent.
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As promised, here’s the release of DUMA for BREW, announced at BREW 2007. It’s a library that helps debug memory problems, and Airsource have ported it over to to BREW. Download it here – it includes a test program, and full documentation of how to use it.
When you build a project in Visual C++ debug mode, it prefills the stack for you on entry to every function. Every stack variable that you might (or might not) use will be pre-initialised to 0xCCCCCCCC. (more…)
If you’ve been paying close attention to the grapevine, you will have noticed that today ARM has announced the release of an upgrade to the RVCT toolchain for BREW. For those who aren’t aware, RVCT gives BREW developers access to a version of their ARM compiler, linker and associated tools which can be used for creating applications optimised for running on device.
If you looked closely at the announcement you would have seen that we got a mention. Airsource has had an early opportunity to test out RVCT 3.0 and evaluate the performance and features being offered. It’s fair to say we were pretty impressed – it’s a much-needed upgrade and ARM has definitely got the edge over GCC when it comes to performance and size.
We’ll be offering more details on some of the results we discovered and some analysis of the new features in RVCT 3.0 in our talk at BREW 2007 on Friday in Randle A at 13:45. After our presentation we’ll try to get some more details up here.
BREW makes heavy use of an interface framework derived from COM. It’s very useful to understand the internals of how it works, especially if you want to extend any of the built in classes. In this series of articles, I will discuss
BREW makes heavy use of an interface framework derived from COM. It’s very useful to understand the internals of how it works, especially if you want to extend any of the built in classes. In this series of articles, I will discuss
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