# Desktop Skin

DevFeed: [Desktop Skin](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/desktop-skin-19284.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.codenameone.com/blog/desktop-skin/>)

Author: Shai Almog

Published: 2017-07-03T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [CodeName One](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/codename-one.md>)

Topics: [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui.md>), [debug](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debug.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>)

Tags: [debug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debug.md>), [desktop](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/desktop.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui.md>)

## AI overview

The article introduces Codename One's desktop skin, a debugging skin for desktop and JavaScript apps. Unlike other skins, it resizes the UI instead of scaling it and displays the current resolution.

## Source excerpt

During the final stages of the 3.7 release cycle we had a lot of material to go thru and Chen slipped a couple of features that we just didn't have the time to discuss. One of those features is the new desktop skin which is a special case skin to debug desktop and JavaScript apps. Unlike other skins it doesn't scale, it resizes the UI when you resize it. It has no skin decorations except for a small bar at the bottom that indicates the current resolution. You can use this to simulate resizing from the user.