Opera has made its Opera Mini mobile browser available for Google's Android platform.The company has this week launched a technical preview of the browser for Android developers on its website and is inviting feedback on the program for the upcoming beta version.
Opera Mini currently has more than 40 million users around the world across a variety of mobile platforms.
Its technology allows the processing of data by compressing it through a remote server. This content is then sent for rendering to the phone applet, enabling browsing across a range of handsets with varying capabilities.
Among the browser's features are small screen rendering, zoom, synchronised bookmarks and integrated Google search.
"Today we're glad to deliver our mass-market mobile browser to the Android development groups," commented Jon von Tetzchner, chief executive of Opera Software.
"Opera Mini will be able to empower users of Android-based handsets with access to all of their favourite websites with popular features for smooth effects and scalable, tailored viewing."
More than 30 mobile and technology firms, including T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola, eBay, Intel and Samsung, are involved with the Android platform, which was unveiled in November last year.
Google launched a new open source scheme created on Google code hosting entitled apps-for-android last month. The project enables the sharing of sample applications, with the first such program being WikiNotes.
