How do I rotate the Android emulator display

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How can I rotate the Android emulator display to see it in landscape mode

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Use Ctrl   F11  This will rotate your emulator

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Press Left Ctrl   F11 or Left Ctrl   F12  to rotate the emulator view   Note  Right Ctrl doesn t work

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Windows  left Ctrl   F12  Mac  Fn   Ctrl   F12

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Device Start-up Configuration -- Via the GUI  To start-up the device in Landscape mode  modifications be made in the Android Virtual Device  AVD  Manager  Open the Virtual Device Manager  and click the Edit pencil     Then  under Startup size and orientation  select Landscape        and click Finish   Device Start-up Configuration -- Via the config file  Despite the seemingly easy way to configure this  in practice this didn t work for me  So there s a way to edit the device s configuration file instead to force it to start-up in Landscape mode   It involves manually switching the width and height in the hardware-qemui ini file   To do so  open this file for edit in a text editor   C  Users  lt user gt   android avd  lt deviceName gt  avd hardware-qemu ini   Switch the values of the width and height  so that the width is longer than the height   hw lcd width   800 hw lcd height   480   The AVD now boots in Landscape mode  The orientation may still be changed with shortcut keys

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NUMPAD 7 and NUMPAD 9 work fine for me

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For rotating the emulator  press CTRL   F12

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Ctrl   F12 did not work for me  nor did Home  PageUp etc   So here s what finally came up with    Enable NUMLOCK  Open your emulator and press the 7 followed by 9 on the NUMPAD on the right side of your keyboard  Now your emulator will be rotated in the opposite direction

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Left Ctrl   F11 works on Windows

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Use NUMPAD 7 and NUMPAD 9  It will help you

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Press Ctrl   F10 to rotate the emulator screen

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Make sure that  Auto Rotate  on your Android settings is enabled  Press F9   two times in less than 2 seconds   Normal view 0 360    Press F10 two times in less than 2 seconds   Rotate 180     Press F11  two times in less than 2 seconds   Rotate 90   to the RiGHT   Press F12 two times in less than 2 seconds   Rotate 90   to the LEFT

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For Mac you can use fn   Left control   F12

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Linux  CTRL   F12  Mac  Fn   CTRL   F12 Windows  Left CTRL   F11 or Left CTRL   F12

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On Mac OS X  you can use Ctrl   Fn   F12 to rotate the Android emulator if you have have not configured your keyboard to  Use all F1  F2  etc  keys as standard function keys   Check it on System Preferences - Keyboard    If you have checked the option mentioned above  you will not need the Fn key and you should be able to rotate the emulator only with Ctrl   F12

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You can use Numpad-9  and Numpad-7 to rotate on Windows and Ubuntu

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On my DELL XPS ultrabook with Linux Mint 15  none of suggested methods work  until an external keyboard is plugged in and use  left CTRL   NUMPAD 9

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For Linux the F12 combination does not work  Instead  use   Left Ctrl   F11

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If you re on a Mac  fn F11 will rotate the emulator   But if you re using 4 4  that won t rotate the application orientation   There s a bug

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I have checked on Windows  Ctrl   F11 and Ctrl   F12 both are working to change the orientation of the Android simulator    For other shortcut keys   In the Eclipse toolbar go to  Help-- key Assist      You can also use Ctrl   Shift   L here  so many shortcut keys of Eclipse are given

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As far as I know  F11 or F12 doesn t work  and nor does Right Ctrl   F12   Hit Left Ctrl   F12  or Home  or PageUp   not NUMPAD 7 or NUMPAD 9 like the website says  to rotate the emulator

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Ubuntu 12 10  Quantal Quetzal    LEFT Ctrl    F12   For some reason NumLock isn t working on a new install on a Dell XPS 8500  but the above worked

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On Mac  Fn Left Ctrl F12  On Linux  Left Ctrl F12  If you want to rotate just the screen and not the emulator  Ctrl F10  I tried it on Linux

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Turn off NUMLOCK and press NUMPAD 9 to rotate the emulator

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