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Unlike the iPhone simulator, the Android emulator doesn't look like an Android device.

If you have to create a screencast or promotional video of your Android application, the default skin of the emulator is no good.

Is there any way to configure the emulator to look like an Android device? If you have dealt with this already, what other things do you recommend taking into account to record an emulator screencast?

Not a programming question per se, but an useful question for Android developers.

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You could use an Emulator skin, for example like found here for several devices.

Maurits Rijk
For those looking for something more recent: http://blog.mathiaslin.com/nexus-one-emulator-skin-updated
hgpc
Nice link, thanks for posting. BTW using this skin it takes all my screen, so I can't see the top and bottom parts of the Nexus One. Is there a way to make it smaller?
janfsd
Set the scale parameter to something lower than 1.
hgpc