Recording a screencast of an Android app using the emulator

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Published on 2010-04-16T14:19:54Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 14:23 UTC
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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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