I have been using the Android Studio emulators for a while, but since a few days the mapping is broken. I have an azerty keyboard on my laptop, and when I type something, it appears as qwerty on the emulator (typing 'a' on the laptop will show 'q' on the emulator). Using the soft keyboard of the emulator works as expected, no matter if the soft keyboard is azerty or qwerty.
This issue appears on all emulators. I have tried to create a new emulator and cold booting. I can't seem to find a setting to change the mapping.
Is there a hidden setting or shortcut I can use to fix this?
I recommend you use the MEMU emulator
Memu Emulator
i have just had the same issue.
to solve it i proceeded this way :
in the android emulator in the menu Settings / general go to "send keyboard shortcuts to virtual device"
see the android emulator config screenshot here
i then installed an application "Clavier physique AZERTY." (see the link in this blog: android-configurer-un-clavier-sans-fil-en-azerty)
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Does anybody know how to display the keyboard in the emulator when the EditText field has focus. I have tried so many solutions but none of them work. I am working in android 4.3 Jelly Bean. The Emulator I am using is GenyMotion. I would also like to know how to hide the keyboard when the EditText field loses focus. I assume however if the keyboard does not appear in the emulator it won't appear when testing on the device.
Any help much appreciated
Just check the details of your emulator. Soft Keyboard won't be displayed if you have checked the option "Hardware Keyboard Present", uncheck that option. And it will automatically displayed on the device since device doesn't have hard keyboard.
Close emulator -> Setting button -> Check Use virtual keyboard for text input
run Genymotion as the application from windows or mac (not from android studio plugin)
then select the settings sign on the right of the virtual device you have installed from the virtualdevicelist
choose the 'use virtual keyboard for textinput'
then close the application.
this worked for me in genymotion 2.6.0
Try this it work for me:
GO to settings menu ->Language&Input->turn off the Hardware Physical keyboard.
First of All close Genymotion emulator.
Then Start Genymotion Application
From left side menu open Filters -> Source -> Genymotion Now check the checkBox of Genymotion if already unchecked.
Then from installed devices select three doted icon -> Edit Then in edit window go down in Android System Option And check the checkBox of Use virtual keyboard for text input
For new versions of Genymotion (mine is 3.1.0),
Right click on your virtual device and click "edit"
Then choose "Use virtual keyboard for text input" and click "CONFIRM"
I have updated Android SDK to KitKat and created a KitKat emulator but I can't see any soft button in it. I tried to scroll bottom-up with no success. Do you know how can I see soft bottons? Is there any shortcut?
If you want to see software (on-screen) keyboard you have to disable the "hardware keyboard present" in your AVD configuration.
Andrei.
I think so you have not created the emulator perfectly My Friend
Look over the configuration and options Check it thorough
I've searched around, and I just can't find certain keyboard shortcuts for the Android Emulator. Specifically,the equivalent of enter/click. I've found that fn+left arrow will move from highlighting one icon to another but no actions.
Just clicking the doesn't seem to have any effects on the Android emulator. (I'm running OS X Lion). Perhaps I need to configure something?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
I guess you don't have Keyboard support set to yes in you AVD (Hardware properties) and that's why your keyboard is not working.
Then most of the keys will work as expected.
I am running Eclipse on a Windows 7 machine. Since the last update of the Android-related files (Android SDK and AVD) to version 4.1, I have a weird looking keyboard:
(this is the first part of the tutorial on the Android Developer website...)
I had a real qwerty-keyboard before, but now it is not only (partly) Japanese, but I can't seem to find how to change it to a qwerty-keyboard.
I have tried checking for updates, restarting the program and the whole PC, changing AVD keyboard settings and different virtual devices with different Android versions on them (the pic shows 2.3.3).
Thanks a lot for your help!
If you click and hold (your mouse button) in the input text box, a menu should come up with Input Method Click that and a Select input method menu should appear. Select Android keyboard and you'll be back to a standard qwerty keyboard.
Try deleting the AVD instance and create a new one. It certainly looks strange but it won't take long to create a new virtual device and boot it ... certainly more constructive than pulling your hair out
I'm very new to Java and the Android SDK but I'm almost done with porting one of my iOS apps over to Android. I'm targeting Android 2.2 (minSdkVersion=8) and higher and recently bought a cheapo LG Optimus S with 2.2.1 for $75 to test with. On the AVDs I've set up (2.2 & 2.3.3) and my test device (2.2.1), everything is working as expected: user data input, graphing user results, sharing on facebook and twitter, and uploading data to a mysql database via php. My problem arises when I test my app on AVDs 3.1, 3.2, and 4.0. Simply put, the Soft Keyboard does not pop up at all when I select an EditText box with any of these versions through the AVD. This behavior didn't occur in 2.2, 2.2.1, or 2.3.3.
I've created and deleted at least a dozen AVDs and have set Keyboard support = no, Keyboard lid support = no, and any other related input type to no and the Soft Keyboard still doesn't pop up when I click on an EditText box. After tinkering with 3.2 through the AVD, I was able to set up the Soft Keyboard and use it with my app, so that's no longer a concern. However, I still can't get it to pop up with 4.0. Should I even worry about this? After all, it's just an AVD and not the real thing. Will an actual Android 4.0 device without any type of physical keyboard know when to pop up a Soft Keyboard or do I need to add some keyboard show/hide methods for it (and maybe 3.1/3.2)? I can't buy a cheapo Android 4.0 device yet..
Thanks,
j
As long as you aren't doing anything weird, tapping on an EditView should pop up a keyboard on any device that doesn't have a hardware keyboard so it should work fine on a 4.0 device.
I'd still try to get the AVD working correctly. Pop-up keyboards work fine on my 4.0 AVDs.