Android Emulator Skinning

If you had a desire to create your own custom skin for screen shots of your awesome app for Google Play store and had trouble finding an example to work from… Well, you’re in some luck as I’m going to give away what I used to create mine. The app I created (GasUP) was my first attempt to work through the entire development pipeline, I guess an exercise you can say, to finish my Android Developer Certification from the University of Texas in Arlington.

However, being a bit retentive on presentation, I was not satisfied with the flat emulator screen shots you can do and… a desktop screen capture of a scaled emulator just looks like garbage. So for a stylized “brand” for publishing, I wanted to create something unique which also allowed me to provide some ‘tagline’ space for wording.

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