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)

QVGA-P 240×320, portrait

HVGA-L 480×320, landscape

HVGA-Q 320×480, portrait

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 :
Thanks to NuuNeoI and Dmitriy



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January 29th, 2008 at 7:08 am
NTT DoCoMo skin for Google Android Emulator
http://teavuihuang.com/android
October 5th, 2009 at 11:16 am
suggest to specify -avd and the skin location -skindir
May 24th, 2010 at 9:17 am
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?