How do I get the Android tablet emulator to be right-side up?

Question

I just downloaded the Android 3.0 SDK and booted up an emulator with it. I rotated the emulator to portrait mode with Ctrl-F12 and then opened and the activity that was bui

Answer 1

The easiest way to tackle that problem is to just flip the display of your host system. On the Mac you can do this in System Preferences > Display on Windows there is a keyboard shortcut: ctrl + alt + arrow key. (see here: https://superuser.com/questions/554589/how-can-i-horizontally-flip-invert-my-monitor-not-rotate and here: http://osxdaily.com/2010/12/28/rotate-mac-screen-orientation/)

And if you have a standalone trackpad you can just turn it around physically to have your mouse pointer move naturally.