Opera Mobile Emulator 12.1 is out
Opera Mobile Emulator is a fine tool for creating and testing responsive web designs, as explained in my recent Smashing Magazine article. So it's my pleasure to announce that, today, we've released version 12.1 of our Opera Mobile Emulator for Mac, Windows and Linux!
This release brings the emulator in sync with our Opera Mobile 12.1 for Android release in early October: the same standards support and feature set of course, but there is more:
- A wide selection of new profile presets in the Profile Selector, representing a selection of common Android phones.
- The Profile Selector now comes with a UA string dropdown, allowing you to set a UA string before launching the browser.
- The Window Scale dropdown allows you to launch an Opera Mobile instance at e.g. 50% of its original size: this makes sure the instance fits comfortably inside your laptop monitor, while at the same time preserving reported screen height, width and
devicePixelRatio. - Opera Mobile Emulator can now also talk to our browser automation library, OperaDriver. OperaDriver is an implementation of the W3C WebDriver specification and part of the free software web testing framework Selenium. Support for OperaDriver was first introduced in a Labs release of the Opera Mobile Emulator back in August, but this is now part of the 12.1 release.
Also note that you can use all the recent additions to Opera Dragonfly with Opera Mobile Emulator, by activating Opera Dragonfly's remote debugging feature, opening opera:debug in Opera Mobile Emulator and clicking the Connect button.
For a full overview of all input modes, launch arguments, shortcuts and other power user settings, check out our extensive guide on Dev.Opera.
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About this article
| Published in | ODIN blog |
|---|---|
| Date | October 30, 2012 |
| Author | Andreas Bovens |
| Tags | Opera Mobile Emulator, Opera Mobile, emulator, mobile |
| Original | Internet Archive |
Patrick H. LaukeWednesday, October 31, 2012 12:42:16 PM
Michael A. Puls IIThursday, November 1, 2012 5:51:18 AM
Originally posted by patrickhlauke:
I've read this post at least. But, I haven't tried the new emulator, *yet*. Posted the news here also though. (fixed link)ΩJr.Tuesday, November 13, 2012 1:26:31 AM
It doesn't show any way to download a version for a different platform. And if it was trying to hand me the most appropriate version for my device, it should not have preselected any, since my device is incapable if running Java (and I'm just assuming here, that the emulator still requires good ole insecure java). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Am actually looking forward to using the emulator, since I no longer own an Opera-capable smartphone, and the experience of Opera Mini on iPad is a little different from what I was used to on my old, small-screen, low-res "smart" phone. Would like to use an on-line emulator version that doesn't require Java. If it exists I'd be happy to receive a link to it. Didn't see such a link on the emulator download page.
Andreas BovensTuesday, November 13, 2012 1:21:02 PM
ΩJr.Wednesday, November 14, 2012 10:21:07 AM
amzmaFriday, December 14, 2012 6:16:16 PM
Any suggest?
Thanks
QuHnoSunday, January 6, 2013 4:02:30 AM
I am back to the Labs version with extension support for now.
Would be nice if it were possible to test if the high-res icon stuff etc. works.