Software Development

[Guest Croccy22]

Ok, just a very quick question. I am gonna start programming the SPV. I have done some c++ (gameboy programming). Bascially could do with some tutorials and reference to get me started.

Is programming for the spv basically the same as programming for WindowsCE. example: If I went out and bought a book on games programming for windowsCE is this gonna help me out or are they totlally different?

Does anyone know of any good websites to get started on?

Matt

[Guest Croccy22]

A simple yes or no will do!

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

You will need the SmartPhone SDK and the eMbedded Visual C++ Developer Tools environment to develop in.

[Guest spacemonkey]

But the simple answer is Yes, it's very similar.

Some things are different. Look in the book, if it's talking about a lot of stuff called MFC then that's irrelevant to smartphone as MFC isn't implemented (MFC is a heap of components to make dev quicker, like file load dialogues etc).

Also, if you are wanting to do games, smartphone has gapi on it which is a very simple and quick interface for low level graphics. Make sure the book talks about that. Also, check out www.gapidraw.com it's a more extended graphics library for games that runs on gapi and gives higher level functions like blits with rotate and zoom etc.