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

open your androidmanifest file. In the application tab select an activity. Then scroll down to screen orientation and select sensorPortait in the drop-down menu. It's only available from api-level 9 (2.3.1) and higher.

Answer 2

I encountered this problem on running the Android SDK (Eclipse) on an Intel (Core i5) Mac. I was able to fix it by disabling the "Use Host GPU" option for the AVD.