Investigate modifying the Andriod emulator GUI about openxc-android

[peplin]

A combination of an emulator skin with:

• Custom graphics
• Custom key mapping
• Custom buttons in skin layout

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5567475/adding-a-button-to-the-android-emulator-skin

http://heikobehrens.net/2011/03/15/android-skins/

[peplin]

Key mapping is actually not supported in the capacity we need - you can only specify keys for predefined emulator events:

 BUTTON_HOME         BUTTON_VOLUME_DOWN  BUTTON_DPAD_CENTER  
    BUTTON_MENU         BUTTON_CAMERA       BUTTON_DPAD_LEFT    
    BUTTON_STAR         CHANGE_LAYOUT_PREV  BUTTON_DPAD_RIGHT   
    BUTTON_BACK         CHANGE_LAYOUT_NEXT  BUTTON_DPAD_UP      
    BUTTON_CALL         TOGGLE_NETWORK      BUTTON_DPAD_DOWN    
    BUTTON_HANGUP       TOGGLE_TRACING      ONION_ALPHA_UP      
    BUTTON_POWER        TOGGLE_FULLSCREEN   ONION_ALPHA_DOWN    
    BUTTON_SEARCH       TOGGLE_TRACKBALL    
    BUTTON_VOLUME_UP    SHOW_TRACKBALL      

[peplin]

Short of changing the source of the emulator, I think the best thing we can recommend is to implement button event handlers in your application to accept either VehicleButtonEvent from OpenXC or the plain key events from Android.

[peplin]

I've documented the recommended method in openxc-android - we can revisit a custom emulator in the future.