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Android Emulator – no skin mode

I’m really not hot on Android emulator. Even when using custom skins I don’t want to take my real estate with the useless images of buttons etc. There are “blank” skins out there but I prefer to just run my emulator wit no skin at all. If you want to do it – here’s how to do it in Eclipse.

  • Click Run –> Run Configurations
  • In the left column find your configuration under “Android Application”
  • Switch to “Target” tab
  • Enter the following into “Additional Emulator Command Line Options” (hint: you may resize pop-up dialog to see it)
  • -scale 0.7 -noskin
  • Apply and Run. This is applicable to both debugging and running and needs to be done only once

Of course, all the buttons are gone so here two tables of shortcuts (credit goes to encke.net)


Controls for the Android OS
Keyboard OS function
Escape Back button
Home Home button
F2, PageUp Menu (Soft-Left) button
Shift-F2, PageDown Star (Soft-Right) button
F3 Call/Dial button
F4 Hangup/EndCall button
F5 Search button
F7 Power button
Ctrl-F3, Ctrl-KEYPAD_5 Camera button
Ctrl-F5, KEYPAD_PLUS Volume up button
Ctrl-F6, KEYPAD_MINUS Volume down button
KEYPAD_5 DPad center
KEYPAD_4 DPad left
KEYPAD_6 DPad right
KEYPAD_8 DPad up
KEYPAD_2 DPad down

Controls for the Android Emulator
Keyboard Emulator function
F8 toggle cell network on/off
F9 toggle code profiling (when -trace option set)
Alt-ENTER toggle fullscreen mode
Ctrl-T toggle trackball mode
Ctrl-F11, KEYPAD_7 switch to previous layout
Ctrl-F12, KEYPAD_9 switch to next layout
KEYPAD_MULTIPLY increase onion alpha
KEYPAD_DIVIDE decrease onion alpha

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