What are the skin types in Android Studio?

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Apurva picture Apurva · Sep 4, 2014 · Viewed 20.3k times · Source

I try to create AVD in Android Studio, there are various skin types available like, HVGA, QVGA, WQVGA400 I don't know what these skin types are, please explain what skin type is to be used while creating AVD.

Answer

Lou Morda picture Lou Morda · Oct 5, 2014

This table shows the emulator skins that are available in the Android SDK, which you can use to emulate some of the most common screen configurations.

http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html#testing

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