I am facing an issue with the Android emulator.
When the emulator boots up everything is fine, regardless the default display orientation.
When I press one of the buttons to change the display orientation, the emulator window rotates but, the content is completely messed up.
See the pic below.
The same happens with all the AVDs I have created and with different android images.
I've already reinstalled/updated the emulator from package manager.
Any idea about why this is happening?
The work environment is:
Mac OS Big Sur,
Android Studio v4.1.1
Android emulator v30.2.6
Thank you for your help.
This was a bug in the Google Android Emulator version 30.2.x.
It was fixed in version 30.3.5 (approximately 8 January 2021). Apply the update like this:
Stop or Force Quit all the running AVD emulators
Android Studio ➔ Tools ➔ SDK Manager ➔ SDK Tools (click this tab in the middle of the dialog) ➔ Android Emulator
The status should say "Update Available"
Click the Checkbox so that it will change from a horizontal line to a checkmark, and so that the download symbol appears on the left.
Click the Apply or OK button
It should download version 30.3.5 or higher, for "Android Emulator".
After the upgrade is applied, relaunch your emulators.
Try running the emulator inside Android Studio. Go to settings-tools-emulator and check the box there to run the emulator inside Android Studio. When you rotate it after it should rotate faster than in the AVD's standalone application, and not break the display. This should fix the broken display problem, without making a new AVD. Make sure you have updated to the most recent version of Android Studio first, v4.1.
The android emulator defaults to have auto rotate turned off. Turn on auto rotate the normal way you would on your phone and it will work.
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I am using the 2.3.3 version of Android Studio in Windows 10. In AVD every virtual device is able to run all verisons of android except Oreo. After starting the emulator with Android 8.0( API level 26) the ram usage of emulator stops around 400-410MB and then nothing happens, just a mobile screen with black screen even without a loading animation. How can I fix this problem?
Step 1- Made a new emulator(Any).
Step 2- then fixed another problem the black screen by changing the settings to use hardware graphics.(Dunno if this problem was related to the bug)
I am using Android Studio version 2.2.3 and since I have installed it There is no device frame included when we have a preview(as shown in the image). I have tried a lot but there seems to be no option to include a device frame.
Just lost the device skin after updating Android Emulator.
I fixed it by manually editing the AVD config.ini and adding:
skin.name=pixel_4
skin.path=D:\sdk\skins\pixel_4
Posting this so I can find the answer faster next time it happens and maybe help others, it seems it is still a valid bug even with Android Studio Chipmunk
There is no device frame included from the newer version by the Android Studio itself. But, you can still use a skin while using AVD.
DEVICE FRAME CAN BE VIEW BY
1- Click on designer preview window
2 - press F button from your keyboard
this will enable and disable the designer preview device frame every time you press F button from your keyboard.
I updated Android Studio and now I got some problems. My emulator is pink and is zooming in automatically.
The pink and zooming in effect You experienced is a result of Skin. You can change the skin inside Android Virtual Device Manager, under Edit of Your emulator.
In Android Studio go to,
Tools\Android\AVD Manager\
In AVD Manager window, edit the desired emulator, then as below shot illustrates choose "No Skin".
Android Default Emulator is very slow.
Try Genymotion with android studio plugin.
It is faster than default and easy to use. You just have to create a free Individual account.
Also to increase speed of default emulator increase the heap size
Since the last upgrade of packages, the Android Studio/Eclipse emulator shows only a fraction of the screen.
How can I view the whole screen again?
To re-install Eclipse does not help.
Two different settings influence the display size of a virtual device. The actual hardware display size of the specific hardware being emulated (Nexus One, Nexus S, ...) and the scaling factor that the emulator applies when rendering that display onto your computer screen. Both are properties of the virtual android device, so reinstalling Eclipse will not change them, but you can edit them in the Android Virtual Device Manager or on launching your emulator.
If you run your emulator from the command line, the third paragraph of the command line help page describes how to change both settings.
If you run your emulator from Eclipse, you may want to look at the launch configuration that you use for debugging your application. At the very bottom you can give the scaling factor and other properties as additional command line arguments. Make sure this is not set.
If nothing worked until here, just create a new virtual device for your emulator from the Eclipse toolbar.
First this seemed the solution: creating a new virtual device in Android Studio solved the problem.
The same problem re-appeared today in Android Studio. I found the definite and simple soluion. You can set it explicitly in the Android Studio AVD manager.
How? Start Android Studio, menubar "Tools" > "Android" > "AVD manager". Then set the startup size and orientation. I changed it from "Auto" to the one below:
This question already has answers here:
Android emulator - Screen rotation
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Closed 8 years ago.
If I open a browser in emulator and press Ctrl+F11 or F9 or Ctrl+F11, the screen rotates but browser doesn't.
To test I downloaded a native app and installed it on my emulator and phone both. The app catches the rotation of phone but on emulator similar thing happened.
I googled it and read few posts on Stackoverflow, I found that its a bug in Emulator of particular version.
But which version of emulator runs it fine?
I simply downloaded the adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20140702 and I have eclipse(juno) with it. Eclipse has Andoird SDK Manager inside it, which helped me to chose the latest APIs, SDK tools etc. I downloaded those, what did I miss that doesn't support rotation.
I also read that if I if uncheck Hardware keyboard Present then it would work but it didn't.
I also tried by uncheck Host GPU, no luck.
Finally I was told that need to specify in AndroidManifest.xml that I want to support both landscapeand portrait both. But I have not created any android project in eclipse I simply created a device and now checking its rotation with its own browser and by installing a apk file from internet.
Are there any concrete steps/tested way that work out screen rotation on android emulator?
But which version of emulator runs it fine?
4.3 (API Level 18) and below.
Are there any concrete steps/tested way that work out screen rotation on android emulator?
Download an emulator image for Android 4.3 (API Level 18) or below, create an emulator from it, and use that. You will find emulator images in your SDK Manager:
In the above screenshot, you will see API Level 17 and 18 emulator images towards the bottom of the picture.
Your problem can be solved by changing one setting as given below:
Open Menu
Goto Settings
Goto Accessibility
Check the check box for "Auto-rotate screen".
This may solve your issue.