The UIQ SDK allows you to change the look and the settings of the emulator, either for a cosmetic purpose and/or to modifying the it's behavior.

MOTODEV provides a skin to make look the emulator like the MOTORIZR Z8 so that you can develop and test your applications in an environment closer to the real phone.

This skin uses the same settings as the default UIQ 3.1 emulator skin. For further information regarding the settings of the emulator, read the Emulator documentation. This documentation is also available in the SDK Documentation once you have installed the SDK.

Emulator skin package content

The package provided contains 3 files:

• epoc.bmp: the bitmap of the skin, representing the MOTORIZR Z8.
• epoc.ini: the configuration for skin.
• How to change the emulator skins.txt: short version of the information contained in this document.

Change the default emulator skin

Once you have installed the UIQ 3.1 SDK, locate the \epoc32\data folder in the SDK installation path.

• In this data folder you will find the two files "epoc.bmp" and "epoc.ini": those are the original skin files for fault emulator skin. Make sure to backup those files , in case you want to restore them later.
• Replace those two files with the ones from the skin package.

How to add the MOTORIZR Z8 the SDK Configurator

When you use the SDK Configurator to switch between the different UI configuration styles, the skin in the \epoc32\data will be replaced by the one of the UI configuration you selected. To prevent your newly installed default skin to be replaced, but also to add more options in the SDK Configurator, you can create and add your own UI configuration style. This is very easy as it is only a matter of copying an emulator skin to the correct location.

To add the MOTORIZR Z8 to the UI Configurator, which is a Softkey style configuration, follow those steps:

• Locate the styles\UIQ Softkey style folder under in the \epoc32\data folder mentioned earlier
• Create a new "MOTORIZR Z8" folder in the "UIQ Softkey style" folder (with fresh installation, this folder already contain two sub-folders: "Classic" and "Default")
• Copy the "epoc.bmp" and "epoc.ini" files from skin package in the newly created "MOTORIZR Z8" folder

Now the "MOTORIZR Z8" option is available in the SDK Configurator: "Styles" tab , "UIQ Softkey Style" style , "MOTORIZR Z8" skin.

You can use the same process to add more skins in the different emulator styles.