I'm using Android Studio 1.5.1. Emulator API 19 (4.4.2) works in Windows 7 x64. I want screen off to test my app. To do it I press F7, but screen is on as before. Also power button (right side of emulator windows) and volume up/down buttons (left side) don't work. How can I turn off the emulator's screen?
It seems that default shortcut for power button has changed from F7 to Ctrl+P.
Please note that by default emulator does not have any screen lock set.
I have been using the Genymotion Emulator for a few months now. The other day I went to rotate to landscape, and it won't let me.
Here's the things I've tried
Click the Rotate Device Icon
Downloading a fresh device configuration
Click CMD-F11 .. I see the Rotate Device Icon flicker as if it was touched, but again .. still does not rotate
Verified this is not at the app level, because I try it just from the Android desktop there .. no apps running
Can any one suggest a solution here
what am I missing?
do I need to reinstall Genymotion out right ?
AVD won't change orientation. All answers I saw says numpad 7, numpad 9, ctrl + F11, ctrl+ F12, even the link from developer.android. But my AVD only goes sideways, but not the screen orientation itself. I want to simulate the exact change orientation of a device, not just the normal avd looking sideways. Here's a pic of what I mean:
Even checked Auto rotate screen on android settings sideways. But still no. Lol.
It seems that there is a bug for AVD with Android 4.4. To fix the problem you may install Android 4.3 over the SDK Manager and then switch the target of your emulated device to Android 4.3.
Looks like your system settings are simply set to not rotate the screen. Go to Android settings -> Display and enable "Auto-rotate screen"
I got it working by changing the skin. WXGA800 worked for me
I`m new in programming Android and have a few beginner problems.
I want to rotate my app, when I rotate the device.
How can I programm that my App do this?
And I want to test it with the AVD, but in my AVD, I can not rotate the browser. My AVD has a acclerometer, so what must I do that my own app and the browser rotate?
I can rotate the emulator. But the applications in the emulator do not rotate.I want to rotate my own application. I dont know the sourcecode. This was my first question.
my second one, is why no application like the browser in the AVD rotate when I rotate the AVD.
Thanks for your help.
To rotate emulator press Ctrl+F11. Your app should rotate without adding any code.
I didn't fully understand what you meant in your question, please be more specific.
But if you mean to rotate the AVD you can press KEYPAD_9, Ctrl-F12, KEYPAD_7 or Ctrl-F11 (for the other virtual keys see Android Emulator)
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 build with 2.2 and the whole emulator is upside down ( as in the emulator is upside down, home buttons are on the top and screen is upside down) . Is there a way to rotate it the other way or am I missing something entirely? ( I have already tried doing Ctrl-F11 or the Num pad, same result)
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.
Well , there can be one of the 2 cases ,
1 - I misinterpreted your question , in which case i am extremely sorry
2 - The problem has been solved in the latest download of the android 3.0 Sdk(i just downloaded 1 right now )
Here , i am posting the screen shot of my AVD running 3.0 and a 2.2 Hello World Activity .
I had this same issue when I was forcing portrait by setting screen orientation to "portrait" in the manifest file. When I made my app support rotation, and switched screen orientation back to "unspecified" the issue went away.
If you don't want to support rotation, just change the manifest while you test, and before you open the app, rotate the emulator so it opens in portrait.
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.
I had the same problem, in my case when I rotated the emulator to portrait, the "desktop" would show correct. However the app would run upside down.
(This worked for v4 Ice Cream)
So, in portrait mode, in the bottom right corner of the emulator, select the settings and set "Auto-rotate screen" to OFF.
Run the app now and it will show correct.
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 or try to disable hardware keyboard.
The same thing just happened to me with a KitKat emulator whenever I setup the AVD with a default orientation of Landscape. Switching the default to Portrait fixed the problem.
The easiest way to tackle that problem is to just flip the display of your host system.
On the Mac you can do this in System Preferences > Display on Windows there is a keyboard shortcut: ctrl + alt + arrow key. (see here: https://superuser.com/questions/554589/how-can-i-horizontally-flip-invert-my-monitor-not-rotate and here: http://osxdaily.com/2010/12/28/rotate-mac-screen-orientation/)
And if you have a standalone trackpad you can just turn it around physically to have your mouse pointer move naturally.