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How can we add Samsung galaxy skin into android emulator?

I am new to android development, I want to know how can we add Samsung galaxy devices/skin into my emulator?
I can able to add skins of Samsung galaxy but can't see in AVD manager.
I need help to understand this.

Steps to add new skin into your Android Emulator:
Need to download the skin of your desired device, Recommended URL https://developer.samsung.com/galaxy-emulator-skin/galaxy_note_series.html to download
Then unzip this downloaded file, Now copy and paste this to /Users/YourUserName/Library/Android/sdk/platforms/android-29/skins
Launch android studio and open AVD manager
Now we need to add a device definition for that recently added skin
In AVD manager click to this create virtual device option
Now you will see the an option for New Hardware Profile option at the bottom left of this popup.
Click to this New Hardware Profile, you will get a popup for Configure Hardware Profile. Add device and device type then scroll down and you will find an option for Default skin dropdown, Choose your newly added skin
Afterwards press this finish button at the right bottom and you are done with device definition configuration.
Now you can create your own virtual device with this newly added device definition.

New Button is Missing in Android Virtual Device (AVD) Manager

I've just installed the Android SDK & Eclipse. I created the first simple app. The problem I have is that the Android Virtual Device (AVD) Manager does not have the New button as indicated on this page.
I do have the Create button. I tried to create a virtual device but after I filled in all the selections the OK button was still grayed out. The problem is that I cannot create a virtual device. Does any know why the New button is not available?

There Will Be Create button because you are creating First AVD...
After you create one AVD then there will be New Button......
While Creating AVD... make sure that you have filled all fields with valid information.....
then OK button will be ENABLED to use...
Follow this image for filling data For AVD...
This may help you...

There are two tabs in the AVD Manager. Android Virtual Devices is the tab with all the emulators you have created and can launch to test Android apps on & Device Definitions is the tab where you can create new definitions for devices.
You can create new device definitions for devices under the Device Definitions tab using the New Device option. You may then choose to use the said definition or an existing definition and create a new emulator using the Create AVD option under the Device Definitions tab or the New option under the Android Virtual Devices tab.
That said, it'd be helpful to understand the problem if you could provide screenshots of it.

don't see the call button enabled in Virtual device

I am new to android development and installed the ADT. I have Created AVD and launched the emulator. But the problem is that I don't see the call button enabled. Can anyone please let me know what I am doing wrong here?

Some AVD device definitions disallow the AVD from displaying "hardware controls". You can change the settings for this in the Eclipse AVD manager, if that's what you're using, or you can alter the AVD class settings for the device by hacking the files that tell the IDE what (let's just say a Nexus 7) the physical device is like. A Nexus 7 has an all-glass screen, so no "virtual button" will show up on emulator, but if you emulate an older android flip phone with a physical keypad, the AVD emulator will show those as "virtual buttons".
You can go hack the device definition files by hand in a text editor to allow virtual "hardware buttons" to show up in the emulator (look for something like "hardwarekeys=true",
or you can chose another device to emulate that actually came with physical buttons, since that AVD definition will already be set to display some virtual "buttons".

Disable menubutton in the android emulator

When developing applications for ICS - the actionbar looks different depending on if there is a physical menubutton present on the device or not.
For example if not, a virtual button is displayed in the actionbar.
Is it possible to emulate a device without a menubutton by disabling it somehow in the emulator?

There is an option "hardware back/home keys". Specify the option and set it to "no" when creating the virtual device.

Open the AVD Manager, ClickShow on Diskoption, Edit theconfig.inifile from the opened directory, findhw.mainKeysconfig and set it toyes`
hw.mainKeys = yes
Save the file and restart the AVD.
Refer screenshots below for more details

With updated SDK tool (R22 as of this answer), the AVD manager editor no longer expose these options on the UI. You have to edit the config.ini of your AVD manually and change the following key from
hw.mainKeys=yes
to
hw.mainKeys=no

As #Yenchi said, tick on 'hw.mainKeys'.
The virtual device will look like second picture.

Setting up multiple emulators on Android Eclipse

I am running a performance test for my android application, want to know whether it is possible to run multiple emulators at once in Eclipse?
If yes, how do i go about doing it?

Create multiple emulators
Change android project run configuration, target as manual selection instead of auto.
Right click on android project -> Run As -> Run Configuration.
On Run configuration window select the project under Android application [at right panel]
Then select Target tab at left panel, and select manual option. that all..
Now whenever you run that selected project, the eclipse will pop up the window with list of running emulators and devices..
To run more than one emulator
1. Open AVD manager
2. select emulator
3. click on start -> launch

You can run multiple emulators by just calling run again, then in the panel "Android Device Chooser" you can choose another Android Virtual Device. To add new Android Virtual Devices to your Android virtual device manager, just click the device manager button on the bar at the top of eclipse, then in the next screen click new and create a new virtual device. The virtual devices go kind of slowly if there are many of them, but you can use multiple emulators this way.

Open AVD Manager. Create multiple AVD/emulator and run them.
Got to the link for help http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/devices/index.html