Categorized | Tips

Tips: Change Android Emulator Skin

Posted on 14 November 2007 by Hatem Ben Yacoub

Android emulator came with four predefined skins, I just noticed the skins in image folder but didn’t find a way to switch from default skin, while it was very easy. Every skin is based on transparent png images and using a layout file to describe images and positions.

To run the emulator with a different skin, use from command line :

emulator -skin HVGA-L

While HVGA-L is the skin ID, the available skins are :

QVGA-L 320×240, landscape (default)

Emulator skin QVGA-L
QVGA-P 240×320, portrait

Emulator skin QVGA-P

HVGA-L 480×320, landscape

Emulator skin HVGA-L

HVGA-Q 320×480, portrait

Emulator skin HVGA-P

From eclipse you can also run the emulator with a different skin, just goto run dialog -> select project -> in the right panel, select Emulator tab as shown in screenshot below :

Run emulator with different skin from eclipse

Thanks to NuuNeoI and Dmitriy

« | Home | »

3 Comments For This Post

  1. Tea Vui Huang Says:

    NTT DoCoMo skin for Google Android Emulator
    http://teavuihuang.com/android

  2. leon Says:

    suggest to specify -avd and the skin location -skindir

  3. Pasha Says:

    Hi ,

    This is not working with android 2.1 , i am trying run emulator same as here http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html.

    any ideas?

Leave a Reply

Advertise Here
Advertise Here