Skins API: Purpose

The principal use of Skins API is using of AVKON Skins in applications and components that need to be made skin-aware. Skins API provides functionality to skin support in the AVKON UI controls. Skins can be used either application-wide or on per-component basis.

The skin-aware AVKON UI controls include:

• Status pane (including the signal, context, title, universal indicator and navigation panes)
• Control pane (including labels and the scroll indicator)
• Lists and grids
• Find pane
• Forms
• Setting pages
• Pop-ups

Skins API supports common operations. It provides utility methods to initialize skins support, retrieve a pointer to the current skin instance or data context, and to perform other skin-related tasks.

Constraints

None.

Classification and release information

Skins API is an SDK API and part of S60 release 3.x.