I'm using a virtual device whose target is 2.3.1. If I run any of my android applications, the keyboard will show the right side on the emulator (see the image below). But I want to show my emulator without a keyboard. How can I do this?
The two other answers work, but they are not strictly correct. The reason they work is that the resolution suggested use a skin with no keyboard.
If you want to test your application for other screen resolutions you must do the following:
Add the hardware option "Keyboard support" and set it to "no".
Either edit the skin selected, or add a startup option "-noskin" for your emulator.
Personally I prefer the "-noskin" flag, because with no keyboard, the skin does not give me anything extra.
In Edit Android Virtual Device => Skins frame you can change skin from "default" (WVGA800, for example) to "Resolution" and manually write resolution of targeted device (480 x 800, for example).
Emulator will be shown without keyboard.
You should change the resolution of Emulator when you create a new AVD. 480 X 800 can used hide the keyboard of emulator.
Today I needed to hide the keyboard when starting the emulator and this worked for me.
When emulator is started, in the android keyboard options you can disable the keyboard to hide it.
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A lot of older posts about AVD manager and its Android emulators suggest that device screen can be set to full screen by using Alt+Enter. In my case - it does not work. Neither does F11 or other shortcut key do the trick. To sum up what I want to know is, does the AVD manager emulators even support such thing? If yes, how, if not - are there any workarounds for it. The target device is a touchscreen monitor, so running in full screen is most important. Bonus question - is it possible display the toolbar with control icons (for controlling rotation, volume, hardware keys etc.) separately from main window in case the device screen is in fullscreen mode?
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 a little bit freshman in Android development so the some reasons may be sound incorrect.
I have been faced with a problem that the virtual keyboard is not displayed when I run the emulator for any created AVD with the varied parameters but it appears one of the following messages just without the expected keypad:
"Hardware keyboard not enabled in AVD. Use on screen keyboard" (With deselected checkbox "Hardware keyboard present").
"Hardware Keyboard. Use your physical keyboard to provide input" (With selected checkbox "Hardware keyboard present").
Also I played around the config.ini with the flags hw.keyboard, hw.keyboard.lid, hw.touchScreen but nothing couldn't help me.
The point of my question is how to get the most common view in the right side of emulator window like this.
So, currently I have resolved my issue. All previous answers did not follow my question perhaps due to unclear explanation from my side.
So, to clarify this question, before I give an answer, the main point was: I meant that there was absent not hardware or software keyboard but the emulator own skin keyboard and couple of another buttons. I guess, my AVD Manager makes incorrect construction of AVD. It's the talk of the special config.ini file that contains two abnormal parameters:
skin.name=320x480
skin.path=320x480
After I changed it, for example, to
skin.name=HVGA
skin.path=platforms\android-XX\skins\HVGA
where XX means any version within described path to skin in Android SDK folder,
all skins are applied properly and emulator look better.
Unfortunately, I still have an issue with understanding. Why after the proper installation and configuration of dev. environment the AVD Manager formats config.ini file incorrectly with parameters hw.dPad=no, hw.trackBall=no by default and skin.name and skin.path set to the wrong values.
I am running android 3.2 RC2 eeepc on Virtual Box.
The OS assumes it a tablet and sets the orientation to landscape by delfault.
How can I manually change the orientation between landscape and portrait?
Is there a way to do this through the commandline in the android OS?
Is there a shortcut key like the emulator from AVD Manager?
I tried Numlock off 7 and Ctrl F11. No use. Kindly help
I use the VM to run an app that I am currently building.
My app has many views and most are set to work in both portrait and landscape.
One view is strictly set to portrait. When I launch this, the entire OS turns to portrait.
How to revert to landscape mode?
download apps like "Set Orientation" so u can set it as potrait, lanscape or automatic
Sadly, VBox is really bad at handling screen orientation. There is no shortcut to change screen orientation on the go I'm afraid. However, there are ways to force the screen into one orientation always. This is however probably not what you were looking for.
You could however try going with BuilDroid - which is a type of addon for VBox to try and support Android as best as possible. It makes sure that screens are "managed". I have no experience with BuilDroid myself, but it could have what you're looking for.
Try it out! You can find it here: http://www.buildroid.org/blog/?page_id=121
Alternatively, there's a blog post giving information on how to change the orientation permanently, as I mentioned before, here: http://davematthew.blogspot.com/2011/09/app-development-with-android-x86-on.html
I have no idea if that helps you either though! But I hope one of these answers your question.
EDIT: The problem seems to have been solved by apps such as the one user2835272 referred to. I have not tried the app personally, but trying "Set Orientation" might be a proper solution for the problem now. Even better, if F9 - F12 works now, that is the functionality that should be used. Again, I haven't played around with VM Android for a while, so I cannot confirm this.
Try just using F9 or F11. It worked for me.
I encountered this problem when trying to run QQ on Android 4.4 running in VirtualBox. F9-F12 were ineffective as soon as QQ started. The app "Ultimate Rotation Control" does the trick but does not resize the QQ window. So part of it gets to lie out of the virtual screen. Finally, I ended up redefining the screen size of the virtual Android to 360x640 (portrait) as described here. It seems that QQ detects which side of the screen is longer and rotates according to this. So if you start with a portrait aspect ratio it will not rotate sideways. I do not about other apps, but guess they operate the same way.
If you are trying to set the display to a portrait resolution. There is one way to set the resolution manually in VBox
I set it to 600x800 successfully in Android x86 4.4.
So basically do the following:
VBoxManage setextradata "Android" "CustomVideoMode1" "360x640x16"
Start Android in VBox in Debug mode
At the Linux prompt, enter the following commands:
mkdir /boot
mount /dev/sda1 /boot
vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
Find the line with tile like "Android-x86 4.4", add "UVESA_MODE=360x640" (replace 360x640 with your resolution) at the end of the line
Save the file.
Clean up and then restart the VM.
umount /boot
rmdir /boot
reboot –f
For those who want to change the screen orientation on Windows.
To run VB on the full-screen mode on a vertical screen, select different sizes and scales from view>>virtual screen x>>resize to ../scale to xx%. After trying different combinations you will find the right settings for you.
I am using the AVD manager in eclipse. Is there a setting that I can use to stop the on screen keyboard appearing when an input field has focus?
I tried has hardware keyboard = true, but then the emulator doesn't seem to start at all :-S
mstoic's answer works, but with one problem: Google voice typing gets enabled with no way to get rid of it.
Not sure if this is available in emulators of all Android versions, but I found this in Settings -> System -> Languages & Input -> Physical keyboard (API 29 emulator). It worked for my use case.
The emulated device should have a physical keyboard, therefore negating the need for a soft keyboard.
I tried it out now and this configuration combination works for me:
hw.keyboard=yes
hw.touchScreen=no
The AVD has a physical keyboard, but no touchscreen, therefore only the physical keyboard can be used for text input, and the emulator does not show the soft keyboard.
Simply disable the Gboard app on your emulator.
To do that, go to Settings > Apps > Gboard, and then click the "DISABLE" button.
If Gboard is not visible, make sure you select the three dots in the top right corner and select the "Show system" option.
In some apps, you may see the Voice input box instead of the keyboard, you can disable that too by disabling the Google app in the same way you disabled Gboard.