Desktop Android

This thread asks an interesting question: is it possible to run Android UI on desktop ?
Well, I think that is possible but very difficult, and almost impossible if the source code is not available. I said almost, because as the well know sports brand remind us: impossible is nothing.

In the meantime, this screenshot shows how using tweaked skins you can run the emulator in a native window, even at a bigger size. This one is 640x480.

There's no special keys or buttons (dpad) here, so you must remember this

F1/PgUp	Menu key
F2/PgDown	Star key
F3	Call key
F4	End Call key
Home	Home key
ESC	Back Key
F7	Power button
F8	Disable/Enable all networking
F9	Start tracing (only with -trace)
F10	Stop tracing (only with -trace)
Keypad 2468	Dpad arrows
Keypad 5	Dpad center
Keypad 79	Rotate device skin
Keypad +	Volume Up key
Keypad -	Volume Down key
Keypad /	Decrease onion alpha
Keypad *	Increase onion alpha
Ctrl-K	Switch between 'unicode' and 'raw' keyboard modes

Download the WINDOW-L and BIGWINDOW-L skins from http://codtech.com/downloads/android-window-l-skins.zip, unzip it in some directory of your preference (/home/android/skins in the following example) and then run the emulator

$ emulator -skindir /home/android/skins -skin BIGWINDOW-L