What I did to get the Galaxy S2 skin to work with the Android Virtual Device (AVD) was:
- download the skin from the Samsung Developer website, it’s under the Add-on SDKs,
- extract to a Galaxy_S2 directory,
- put the entire directory in the
[Android-SDK directory]/platforms/android-10/skins directory, - edit the manifest.ini and change
api=9toapi=10, - restart AVD Manager,
- under skin in the device configuration you should see Galaxy_S2 in the dropdown.
Nice guide! But instead of editing the manifest file, I just put it under the android-8 folder, and it worked as well. Thank you!
Hi,
sorry for my ignorance,
what is the “skin”?
is it a precompiled kernel for that device? or is it a collection of objects that is just enough for the emulator?
can i load kernel of a device like samsung S3 to the emulator?
It’s only a template that makes the default emulator look like the phone it says it is. So for a Galaxy S2 it would look like the Galaxy S2 and all buttons and such would be in those places.