Until recently, developers wanting to provide a 3D graphics experience on BREW faced significant challenges: developing or porting your own 3D engine. With the introduction of OpenGL ES for BREW, you now have access to a state-of-the-art 3D rendering platform that’s portable across mobile platforms and devices.
by Ray Rischpater
September 8, 2006
penGL has long been a standard interface for 3D graphics development. Developed by SGI, its only real competitor today is Microsoft's Direct3D. Unfortunately, until recently there's been no mobile analogue to OpenGL. Developers have had to either port their own 3D engines from one platform to another, or improvise with platform-specific interfaces and pay the price while porting applications. OpenGL ES, a version of the OpenGL standard for embedded devices, stands to change all this. As an open standard supported by the Khronos Group, it is already available for BREW, Symbian, and Linux. This article describes how to get your environment set up for OpenGL ES development in BREW, as well as introduces you to the basic concepts you need in order to get started.
Setup and Installation
If you're new to BREW, the first thing you should do is peruse the articles in Related Resources to come up to speed on the programming environment. BREW is an event-driven, single-threaded, component-oriented environment in which you write code in C or C++ against system interfaces; it's similar in many ways to platforms such as Palm OS, although the component orientation reminds some of Windows COM development. If you're new to OpenGL, you should check out a brief tutorial, or better yet, OpenGL ES.
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penGL has long been a standard interface for 3D graphics development. Developed by SGI, its only real competitor today is Microsoft's Direct3D. Unfortunately, until recently there's been no mobile analogue to OpenGL. Developers have had to either port their own 3D engines from one platform to another, or improvise with platform-specific interfaces and pay the price while porting applications. OpenGL ES, a version of the OpenGL standard for embedded devices, stands to change all this. As an open standard supported by the 
