A popular one in Europe is the X10 Mini, from Sony Ericsson which has a QVGA resolution.

When you are creating Android applications, you should make sure that it works well on various resolutions, which the emulator helps you with. However, the built in QVGA skin is rather ugly, so I decided to try and whip up a skin based on the X10 Mini. Here’s what I ended up with:

I quite like it, and it also works fairly well on low-resolution monitors, such as on netbooks (at least it does on mine). I zipped it up and put it up for download. To use it:

1. Extract the zip file into your Android/platforms/android-<version>/skins folder.
2. Create a new AVD with the AVD Manager and select X10Mini from the skins dropdown.
3. If you want to get as close to the X10 Mini software, use the 1.6 image (android-4, I believe).
4. Enjoy!

Note: I forgot to include the hardware.ini file required for 1.6+. Should work better now

It gets rather tiresome to look at the same fake phone all the time though, so I decided to take a break and see if I could create a skin based on the upcoming Samsung i7500 (I believe they’ve named it Galaxy now, at least in Germany). The screen position and such may not be spot on, but it has the right resolution at least. I mapped most of the buttons too, but the zones had to be cut off a little due to the emulator not supporting weird button shapes (afaik).

Should anyone be interested in downloading it, feel free to get it. Just extract this to your Android/platforms/android-<version>/skins folder and you should be good to go. Run the emulator with the flag “-skin Galaxy” (or if you’re using Android 1.5 or upwards, just select Galaxy as your skin in the AVD Manager). Here’s a screenshot of how it looks in action:

Samsung Galaxy Android Emulator skin