title: Remove Phone application from Android emulator?
body: <p><strong>How do I (forcibly) remove the stock android Phone application from the emulator instance?</strong></p>
  
  <p>I would especially like answers from people who have actually successfully removed the Phone application.</p>
  
  <p>Removing the Phone application probably also necessitates removing the Contacts application, as they are tightly integrated, that is fine.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Solution</strong></p>
  
  <p>After much research it seems the only solution is to rebuild the Android SDK from source, as <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6440133/remove-phone-application-from-android-emulator/6492870#6492870">Maciej Pigulski answered</a>.</p>
  
  <p>After <a href="http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">fetching the android source</a>, remove <code>Phone</code> and <code>Contacts</code> from the Android makefile <code>build/target/product/core.mk</code>. And build the SDK as usual, i.e.:</p>
  
  <pre><code>. build/envsetup.sh
  lunch generic-eng
  make sdk
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And in <code>out/host/linux-x86/sdk</code> you will have a zip file containg a fresh new sdk ready for use in e.g. Eclipse.</p>