How to Rotate the Android Emulator Display

How do I rotate the Android emulator display?

Windows: left Ctrl + F12

Mac: Fn + Ctrl + F12

Android - Emulator in landscape mode, screen does not rotate

It is a bug with the 2.3 and 4.4 emulators.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13189 [v2.3]
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=61671 [v4.4]

Rotate android emulator display

Android Emulator Shortcuts

Ctrl+F11 Switch layout orientation portrait/landscape backwards

Ctrl+F12 Switch layout orientation portrait/landscape forwards

1. Main Device Keys

Home Home Button

F2 Left Softkey / Menu / Settings button (or Page up)

Shift+F2 Right Softkey / Star button (or Page down)

Esc Back Button

F3 Call/ dial Button

F4 Hang up / end call button

F5 Search Button

1. 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+F11 Switch 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

How do I change screen orientation in the Android emulator?

Ctrl+F12 is the keyboard shortcut.

Android emulator - Screen rotation

As suggested by Nicolas Jafelle here, you can try to add the property "Keyboard Support-->yes" in the emulator settings. That helped me.

PS: it will also allow for your emulator to get input from your keyboard. See more here

Switching to landscape mode in Android Emulator

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.

Android Emulator broken when rotating display

This was a bug in the Google Android Emulator version 30.2.x.

It was fixed in version 30.3.5 (approximately 8 January 2021). Apply the update like this:

• Stop or Force Quit all the running AVD emulators
• Android Studio ➔ Tools ➔ SDK Manager ➔ SDK Tools (click this tab in the middle of the dialog) ➔ Android Emulator
• The status should say "Update Available"
• Click the Checkbox so that it will change from a horizontal line to a checkmark, and so that the download symbol appears on the left.

• Click the Apply or OK button
• It should download version 30.3.5 or higher, for "Android Emulator".
• After the upgrade is applied, relaunch your emulators.

How to configure android emulator to auto change orientation upon rotating

The little icon seems only shown when auto-rotate is turned off. After I turn on auto-rotate, the emulator changes orientation automatically.

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