Impossible to rotate the emulator with android 4.4 [duplicate]

Answer 1

In manifestfile.xml can put android:screenOrientation="landscape". When it has been Loaded you will see every app in landscape mode

Answer 2

There is a work around for this. It seems the settings from the GUI isn't saved to the ini files. I had to manually edit fields "hw.keyboard=no" in both config.ini & hardware-qemu.ini within your avd directory.

Answer 3

There appears to be a bug in the emulator as described by CommonsWare, however, if you desperately need to debug an app in landscape mode on the 4.4 emulator you can:

1. Start the Camera app on the emulator which will rotate the screen.
2. Now exit the app, the home screen should now be sideways.
3. Pressing Ctrl + F11 will do the trick. (Ctrl + fn + F11 on mac).

Answer 4

As a workaround, I cloned the device, swapped the width/height in the clone and unchecked portrait. Then launched my avd based on the cloned landscape version. Maybe that could work for you?

Answer 5

I ran into the same issue when using the emulator running Android 5.0.1. However, I was able to resolve by using the emulator with Intel x86 Atom system image instead of the Intel x86 Atom_64 system image.

Answer 6

Until it is fixed I use this free application "Set Orientation". Install the apk into emulator using adb install.