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Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Challenges during development of Opera Mini
Here's an interesting take on the issues Opera faced when developing Opera Mini. The note was written by Opera for Sony Ericsson, so it's slightly biased. Especially the "Managing Java fragmentation" section should be interesting. As you might know, most of the processing is done on a transcoding server. Even so there were device issues.In short, they have two basic versions for MIDP 1.0 and MIDP 2.0 respectively, and most other tweaks are done run-time.
Quote: "Opera Software found that only way to solve the problem with Java fragmentation was to actually test the application on each and every device from many manufacturers."
This is a must-read for those that still believe multi-device porting is a non-issue.
Developer case study: Managing Java fragmentation, Opera Software's Java ME browser client
See also my previous entry about Java issues:
Abiro - Mobile News: Java ME, still not Write Once, Run Anywhere
