Opera Mini 4.1 beta has been ported to Google’s Android operating system. The processes was fairly simple, they took the original Opera Mini code base and used a wrapper that would translate J2ME API calls into Android API calls. The guy who is responsible for this open source wrapper, known as MicroEmulator, is also the lead developer for Opera Mini for Android.
MicroEmulator is a pure Java implementation of J2ME in J2SE. Here some features :
Support for MIDP 2.0
Generic Connection Framework
Support for MMAPI (JSR 135)
Support for FileConnection API (JSR 75)
Support for Nokia APIs
Support for Siemens APIs
Skinnable and configurable interface
Works with different graphics libraries; currently with Swing and SWT
Platform independent: Windows, Linux, OSX
Try it yourself!
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):
-Download and install latest version of Android SDK
-Obtain the Opera Mini for Android package
-Once you have installed the Android SDK, start the Android emulator that comes with it (this can be found at {Android home}/tools/emulator
–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.
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