Switching to landscape mode in Android Emulator

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This is probably a pretty easy to answer question  but I can t find the solution myself after a couple hours of searching the documentation and Google  I set the orientation of my Android app to landscape in the AndroidManifest xml file   android screenOrientation  landscape    However  when I run the app in the simulator  it appears sideways and in portrait mode  How can I switch the emulator to landscape mode on a mac  It s running the 1 6 SDK

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Not sure about your question -  sideways  is the same as  landscape    If you mean how to switch during runtime    Switch to previous layout orientation  for example  portrait  landscape   KEYPAD 7  Ctrl   F11 Switch to next layout orientation  for example  portrait  landscape   KEYPAD 9  Ctrl   F12   From docs

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Ctrl   F11 works wonderfully on Ubuntu   Linux Mint

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Ctrl F11 or Ctrl F12  to change the orientation of the android emulator on windows

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In my case  i succeeded by doing this    1- enable  Auto-Rotate   if it isn  t yet   2- either use rotation left-right option at panel located next to the virtual device  or click  ctrl   left right arrow key   in order to rotate the device    Hope it works for you

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Try    ctrl fn F11 on Mac to change the landscape to portrait and vice versa     left-ctrl F11on Windows 7  ctrl F11on Linux    For Mac users  you only need to use the fn key if the setting  Use all F1  F2 etc  keys as function keys   under System Preferences -  Keyboard  is checked    left-ctrl F11on Windows 7  It works fine in Windows 7 for android emulator to change the landscape orientation to portrait and vice versa

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10 years later  I run into the same problem    For me  the issue is that it was literally disabled in my emulator   Go to the running emulator  and drag down from the top menu area to make it show the action buttons and notifications   Those action buttons show what features are enabled disabled  like Wifi  airplane mode  and    rotate   In my emulator  the 3rd button from the left was the  rotate  button  and it was gray   Once I tapped on it to toggle it on  boom  my app would now switch to landscape mode when I rotated it

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Just use 9 in numeric keyboard with num-lock off     7 rotates in the opposite  direction

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for windows try left Ctrl key with F11 or F12 or Num off 7

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On iMac with long keyboard  keyboard with numeric keypad at the right     1  Cmd   7  on numeric part of keyboard   2  Cmd   9  on numeric part of keyboard

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Here are some ways to move landscape on Android Emulator  1  Mac   Ctrl   Fn   F11 Keypad 7  or Keypad 9 Ctrl   F12  or  Ctrl   Fn   F12 Command   7  or  Command   9  2  Windows   Left Ctrl   F11  or  Ctrl   F12  3  Linux   Ctrl   F11  4  Android studio   We can write screenOrientation    quot landscape quot  in the androidManifest xml file  5  Keyboard  in side the emulator  turn off the Num-Lock and press Keypad 7  and  Keypad 9  6  Emulator   click the rotate button on the screen shown below     click the rotate button on the screen shown below

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following for different plateform  WINDOWS  Ctrl   F12  LINUX  Ctrl   F12  MAC OS X  control   F12  or fn   control   F12  depending on your keyboard configuration

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Android Emulator Shortcuts  Ctrl F11 Switch layout orientation portrait landscape backwards  Ctrl F12 Switch layout orientation portrait landscape forwards   Main Device Keys   Home Home Button  F2 Left Softkey   Menu   Settings button  or PgUp   Shift F2 Right Softkey   Star button  or PgDn   Esc Back Button  F3 Call  dial Button  F4 Hang up   end call button  F5 Search Button   Other Device Keys   Ctrl F5 Volume up  or   on numeric keyboard with Num Lock off  Ctrl F6 Volume down  or   on numeric keyboard with Num Lock off  F7 Power Button Ctrl F3 Camera Button  Ctrl F11Switch layout orientation portrait landscape backwards  Ctrl F12 Switch layout orientation portrait landscape forwards  F8 Toggle cell network  F9 Toggle code profiling  Alt Enter Toggle fullscreen mode  F6 Toggle trackball mode

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I have found that sometimes the CTRL   F11 combination just doesn t do it for me  I have solved it by disabling the keyboard input in the emulator settings   To do that  go to your emulator settings  klick the  show advanced settings  button and scroll all the way down  Then  disable the  enable keyboard input  option   After doing that  try to start your emulator again  and the CTRL   F11 combination should work

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I m using Android Studio and none of the suggestions worked  I can turn the emulator but it stays in portrait  I didn t want to add a command in the manifest forcing landscape  The fix for me was    turn the emulator to landscape mode using ctrlF11  the image will still be in portrait though  Open up the camera in the os  it opens up in landscape mode  the only app that does this without doing anything else  debug my app from Android Studio and now it shows up in landscape

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Ctrl   F12 also works well on linux ubuntu

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make sure that your hardware keyboard is enable while creating your AVD  -launch the emulator -install your app -launch your app -make sure that your Num lock is on -Press  7   amp  9  from your num pad to change your orientation landscape to portrait  amp  portrait to landscape

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For those of you with a Chromebook Pixel Ubuntu Crouton with no numpad  installing the onboard keyboard worked for me      Just press 123 to access the numpad layout  and then press 7  If you re on Unity already  onboard may already be installed  so just type onboard from your command line to see if it s there    If not  just type    sudo apt-get update  sudo apt-get install onboard   PS  The Chromebook Pixel s upper keys were supposed to represent the traditional F1 through F11 function keys on Ubuntu Crouton  so you may want to try those special hardware keys first  on their own or in combination with Ctrl   It s just that for me  I m running an old copy of Crouton  and the only function key that seems to be recognized is F6

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control fn F11 will do  There s no need for  command  key

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To rotate the Android Emulator  just disable the Num Lock key and and use the 7 and the 9 in the num pad to rotate the emulator and change its layout from portrait to landscape

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The complete listing is buried in the android docs  and i only found it via google   dogpile    http   developer android com tools help emulator html    That link has the emulator shortcut keys as of right now

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In my windows-8 laptop  ctrl   fn   F11 works

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Just a little bug  Bug for me  I found on mac emulator   On changing the orientation to landscape  CtrlCmdF11  it changes to landscape but content shows in portrait format for that   Go to emulator  Settings-  Display- When device is rotated- Rotate the contents of the screen

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On the emulator click down at the top and drag down to bring down the menu   the fourth button from the left  Arrows  is the rotate lock  If it is grey click it and it will turn blue  Then you can click the rotate phone icon on the right-hand sidebar of the emulator and your screen will rotate

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To switch to Landscape mode in android emulator u have 2 ways to accomplish   1  You can create a relative layout such that when you switch from one mode to other it will change accordingly  2  You can create 2 separate XML file both the views and use it whenever required

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If you can not switch to landscape or portrait  while using ctr f11 12  Maybe the virtual device  android phone  itself lock the rotation  Going to the android control center  pull down on the home page   and unlock

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This is now much more intuitive  The AVD interface now includes a sidebar with various functional shortcuts  The buttons circled in blue will rotate the device clockwise and counterclockwise on the screen

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