Android Gets Opera Mini Android Version.

Chris Mills is telling us that one of my favorite browsers, both desktop and mobile, Opera being readied for Android platform. He has presented us with an article well worth reading, over the course of the post on the Opera Labs new, he goes through why they created it, how, and the challenges they faced. Also how you can try it out for yourself which is stated below. So Opera team would like you to test it, try it and give them any, even a tiny little feedback you have.

Try Opera Mini for Android, yourself! and read the article. You might pick up some pointers on Android development, even if you are not interested in Opera (why not?).

As mentioned above, there is currently no hardware available that will run Android, but you can still try the Opera Mini Android version out using the Android SDK and emulator. Here's how (these steps are basically the same on any platform that runs the SDK):

1. Download and install latest version of Android SDK
2. Obtain the Opera Mini for Android package
3. Once you have installed the Android SDK, start the Android emulator that comes with it (this can be found at {Android home}/tools/emulator
4. Transfer and install the Opera Mini package into the emulator - you can do this with the following command line input - {Android home}/tools/adb install OperaMini.apk

Opera Mini should now appear in the emulator Applications folder.

Opera Labs article.

tag: Android Developers, android, Android SDK, Android emulator, Opera Mini Android, Opera Labs