Android emulator not rotating to landscape

Question

When i try to switch the orientation of my emulator, the emulator window rotates and the orientation of the emulator screen stays as it wer

Answer 1

These answers help me to do this.. Please try these and you can see what u wanted to do

https://stackoverflow.com/a/4057309/1063861

https://stackoverflow.com/a/4535315/1063861

Answer 2

Is only your application is not rotating or other applications in the emulator also not rotating?

If only your application is not rotating, then there must be android:screenOrientation parameter set somewhere in the manifest file.

If all other apps on the emulator are also not rotating, no problem with your application, delete and create a new emulator..

Answer 3

Check in your manifest if there is android:screenOrientation

    <activity
        android:name="com.your.activity"
        android:screenOrientation="sensorPortrait" >
    </activity>

If this is the case, delete the lines.

Answer 4

Some of the emulator targets like 4.4 (API level 19) and 2.3 have a bug. Change your emulator to target version 4.2 or 4.3 and try to change the orientation.

See the history of this bug: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13189

Related question: Impossible to rotate the emulator with android 4.4

Answer 5

This is a bug in android emulator. Add Keyboard Support - yes in emulator properties to fix this problem. You can track this bug : http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=34237

Answer 6

My solution was to enable the accelerometer in the device profile.