Homebrew Question Ressources to create Homebrew (C , Python, etc...) ?

[chrishinji]

Hello guys,

I have some dev skills and I want to have some fun creating Switch apps. Sadly, as far as I can see there are no real tutorial for beginners, except those two videos by Modern Vintage Gamer :

• I ported Outrun to the Nintendo Switch - Switch RCM Method and Homebrew Dev Setup Guide :
  
• I ported DOOM to the Nintendo Switch in 45 minutes ! :

I was wondering if we could create a topic where everyone could put links to tutorial, videos, document, etc... in order to explain how to create your own app.

I can start by saying that this github give a lot of examples and is probably the best way to go. In order to generate a .nro please watch the first link to youtube.

 

[WerWolv]

I made a basic tutorial on how to get started some time ago. Check it out if you're interested: https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-switch-homebrew-development.507284/

 

[chrishinji]

Hello WeWolv I have read your tutorial and it was great. I am wondering if you plan to do a follow up with (ie) a basic project tutorial ? And actually the main question I have is where can I find documentation about libraries and how to use them, especially the graphic one.

 

[WerWolv]

I will do more tutorials once I have time.
I linked the documentation to libnx in my thread but here is the link: https://switchbrew.github.io/libnx/index.html
And for graphics, there isn't really much more to it than what I explained in my thread. You get a pointer to the framebuffer and you start writing data to it. There are 4 bytes per pixel RGBA8.