How do I change screen orientation in the Android emulator?

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

Jeff Gilfelt

Ctrl+F12 is the keyboard shortcut.

Neelaganda Moorthy

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

edwardsharp

For those pesky Apple MacBook keyboard layouts that otherwise adjust the volume, use Ctrl + fn + F12.

Usama Sarwar

Num 7 on keypad does it for me. Remember it works only when Num Lock is off.

lokoko

ctrl+fn+F11 on Mac to change the landscape to portrait and vice versa.

left-ctrl+F11on Windows 7.

ctrl+F11on Linux.

gaurav

Ctrl + F11 and Ctrl + F12 both work.

utrescu

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"

Hoang Tran

Ctrl + F11, numpad 7 and numpad 9 don't work on my Ubuntu box, but Ctrl + F12 does.

dhiku

For Mac, use:

Ctrl + FN + F11

You no longer need to remember the shortcuts. The latest Android AVD interface contains a sidebar with various functional shortcuts. I've circled in blue the buttons that rotate the screen clockwise and counter-clockwise.

FeelGood

Ubuntu Release 12.04 (precise) 64-bit
DELL Latitude E6320

CTRL + (double tap on F12)

Fn + 7 is a solution for keyboards where the num keypad is merged with the main keypad. Here the key with 7 (and &) is the key that has the blue-coloured 7.

Android Emulator Shortcuts

Ctrl+F11 Switch layout orientation portrait/landscape backwards

Ctrl+F12 Switch layout orientation portrait/landscape forwards

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

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

José Naves

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

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

SME

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

Additionally, you must verify the autorotate setting on the emulator. Because of if this setting is off, you can't change the orientation besides press the rotate buttons. In the following picture, I will show how you can do this.

SAndroidD

Left Ctrl+F12 = For Windows 8

To do this on the Surface

Ctrl+Fn+F12

With Android Studio:

Windows: Ctrl+Left-Arrow and Ctrl+Right-Arrow

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

crit_

All of the above methods didn't work for me. Using Left Ctrl + <Windows Key> + F11 worked on Linux Mint 17.

In the updated emulator you don't have to remember the keyboard shortcuts -- they have added a side panel to the right side of the window. You can change the screen orientation by clicking either of the "rotate" buttons in that side panel.