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 ?
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I'm developing an Android app with Android Studio and the emulator. In the last months, I notice that when I rotate the emulator to the app behaviour in landscape mode, the screen is splitted.
It's not a problem of my application, I tried with Gmail app and other and the problem persists.
I tried to change OpenGL config but nothing changes. I'm working on a Mac Book Pro with Big Sur. Any idea about to solve it?
Thank you in advance.
I did face the same issue:
Recreating/Resizing Emulator did not help.
To fix it, I just clicked the zoom button and everything is working as intended.
Zoom option:
After clicking zoom, it works:
Resizing the AVD worked for me, just drag the corners to make the AVD smaller or bigger. After resizing it the split screen should go back to normal. If the problem persists try making a new AVD.
I created a brand new emulator today but it is behaving weird today. Here is my setting:
When i start it up, it loads fine. Until it gets to the lock screen. I keep on dragging/swiping from bottom to top to unlock, but it wont! This is the first time I encountered such behaviour. I tried with target Android 6.0 - API Level 23 but was able to unlock. I want to test my app on Google API 23. Please help to figure out the proper setting values.
Happened to me as well.
Another solution in addition to what #TTRansmit suggested is as below:
Close emulator.
Go to AVD manager screen, edit your Emulator and go to Advanced Settings.
Select Cold boot as Boot option located in Emulated Performance section. This way you will be able to restart your emulator and get it unlocked without loosing data.
Power off (via holding power) on the device buttons and wipe data (from Android Virtual Device Manager) worked for me. It was turning off the Device Frame from the edit/Virtual Device Configuration screen of AVD that seemed to cause the problem.
I still did not solve this problem, somewhat. To get thru, what I did was I activated the Camera emulation then relaunched the emulator. On the lock screen, I dragged the Camera icon. The camera would crash and emulator would notify you about it thru a pop up dialog. Once you exit the dialog, it will go back to your homepage UNLOCKED! I know, it was weird but it worked.
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.
At first I thought this was a problem with my app, but it seems to be happening in any app (though interestingly, not the home screen) in the gingerbread emulator.
To replicate my issue, open eclipse and fire up the android emulator for gingerbread (I'm using the "Google APIs - API Level 9" as my target)
So the procedure to duplicate once the emulator loads is
press LCtrl-F11 to shift orientation to landscape, then again to switch to portrait
Result:
In the homescreen:
The view rotates to landscape, and then back to portrait, as expected
In any app (i've tried browser, calculator, maps, and the app i'm currently working on):
the view rotates to landscape, and then nothing, it stays in landscape even the emulator is displaying the phone in landscape mode (see below)
Has anyone else had this issue, or have I installed the emulator in some incorrect way - this hasn't been an issue with any of the previous emulators
This is a bug with the Android emulator running 2.3.x. Bug is already acknowledged here
Actually, I have run into that problem occasionally before, though it does seem to get progressively worse with each passing tools release. There is nothing wrong with your installation or how you are using the program, AFAIK. You might try using Ctrl-F12 to switch back rather than Ctrl-F11 and see if that improves matters. I think the problem may stem from the emulator trying to emulate four-way orientation, but that is just a guess.
I just got stuck with the same problem in my own application. The app always stays in lanscape mode after using the camera. The only workaround I found is to click on the home button (emulator changes to portrait mode) and then click again on my application to get back to it also in portrait mode.
Did anybody report that bug already?
(Gingerbread emulator, Eclipse 3.5.x, Android Development Tools 8.0.1.v201012062107-82219)