How do I change screen orientation in the Android emulator?

Question

How do we change emulator screen orientation to landscape or portrait?

Answer 1

My virtual device could not be rotated. Go to the device list, click settings and change the predefined resolution.

Answer 2

Use function + 9 for HP laptops. Others keys specified in previous answers didn't work for me.

Answer 3

Super->Ctrl_L->F12 works for me on Fedora 23

Answer 4

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

2. 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

Answer 5

On Ubuntu none of the keys (Ctrl+F11/F12 or numpad 7/numpad 9) worked for me. But I can rotate the emulator sending the keys with xdotool.

For example for a VM named "Galaxy_Nexus" I can rotate the emulator with:

xdotool search --name "Galaxy" key "ctrl_L+F11"

Answer 6

In my notebook, Dell Latitude E4310, the Ctrl+F12 keys do the job.