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Android emulator skin: Sony Ericsson X10 Mini

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Been a while since I made my Samsung Galaxy skin. Since then, a ton of Android phones have arrived and many of them with different resolutions than the “normal” HVGA.

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:

Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Android Skin

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 :-)