Impossible to rotate the emulator with android 4.4 [duplicate]

Answer 1

I have found that this bug depends on which device type I select for the virtual-machine. If I set the device type as a "Nexus 7", it won't allow rotations. But if I set the device type as a generic 7" tablet, with all of the same options, rotations will work fine.

Answer 2

I have found a solution to this problem -

• Create emulator with whatever setting you want but set the Target to be less then Android 4.4.

For example -

I set it to the following -->

NOTE:

Because I want to use Android 4.4 with Google Maps API so I used Android 4.2.2 with Google Maps API here.

• After creating the AVD, start it and lets get it started completely.

• Now come back to this AVD and edit it. Here you set the Target to Android 4.4 with Google Maps API.

For example -

I set it to the following -->

• Now start the application and rotate any way you want. It worked great!

Answer 3

These appear to be bugs in the Android 4.4 emulator. You may wish to track the issues that I filed regarding the orientation change bug and the overflow affordance bug.

Thanks for pointing these out!