How to resize the AVD emulator (in Eclipse)?

Question

This is actually possible from your project as well, no need to start the emulator through the AVD manager:

Go to Run > Run Configurations… > (Select your application on the left hand side) > (Click the "Target" tab on the right hand side).
At the bottom there, you’ll see Emulator launch parameters. In the additional emulator command line options, add '-scale 0.75' (to make the screen 75% of full size)

Next time you start the emulator it will have scaled properly.