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Asked: 2026-05-17T22:44:55+00:00

I’m teaching myself how to make custom AVD skins by editing the layout file

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I’m teaching myself how to make custom AVD skins by editing the layout file and associated .png files in the android-sdk-windows\platforms\android-nnn\skins\ folders. The syntax of the layout file is simple and pretty self-explanatory but I’m curious about it …

  1. Is it meant to be hand-edited or is it generated from some tool or utility I should be using?

  2. Any idea why they used this curly-brace syntax instead of something standard like XML? (or is this a standard syntax I just haven’t seen as a Java/Android noob?)

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    1.Is it meant to be hand-edited or is it generated from some tool or utility I should be using?

    Yes, it’s that simple that nobody has written a tool in order to create skins.

    2.Any idea why they used this curly-brace syntax instead of something standard like XML? (or is this a standard syntax I just haven’t seen as a Java/Android noob?)

    That’s up to the Android engineers. I think it was a good choice, since that format is easier to read than a strict XML.

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