Switching to landscape mode in Android Emulator

Question

This is probably a pretty easy to answer question, but I can't find the solution myself after a couple hours of searching the documentation and Google. I set the orientation of my Android app to landscape in the AndroidManifest.xml file:

android:screenOrientation="landscape"

However, when I run the app in the simulator, it appears sideways and in portrait mode. How can I switch the emulator to landscape mode on a mac? It's running the 1.6 SDK.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/17161332 this will surely help you a lot. — akshay, Oct 31 '13 at 11:31
Possible duplicate of [How do I change screen orientation in the Android emulator?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1991318/how-do-i-change-screen-orientation-in-the-android-emulator) — T.Todua, Jan 11 '17 at 09:22

score 636 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 28 '13 at 14:59

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Try:

ctrl+fn+F11 on Mac to change the landscape to portrait and vice versa.
left-ctrl+F11on Windows 7.
ctrl+F11on Linux.

For Mac users, you only need to use the fn key if the setting "Use all F1, F2 etc. keys as function keys" (under System Preferences -> Keyboard) is checked.

left-ctrl+F11on Windows 7 It works fine in Windows 7 for android emulator to change the landscape orientation to portrait and vice versa.

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ctrl+fn+F11 on a Macbook Pro didn't work, but Keypad 7 and Keypad 9 does. HOWEVER, the rotation works once. It will orient to lanscape, but when returning to portrait, the screen doesn't redraw in the portrait mode. – hogsolo Nov 11 '11 at 17:19
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Although it is relatively obvious the windows shortcut is Crtl + F11 – Syntax Jan 06 '12 at 13:23
control+fn+F11 does work on my Macbook Pro Retina display...everytime. – whyoz Feb 06 '13 at 15:37
[ctrl+f11] works on my Macbook Pro OS X Lion (10.7.5) [ctrl+fn+f11] DOES NOT. – Roy Hinkley Apr 29 '13 at 22:08
So simple! Is there an overview of key commands for the emulator somewhere? – Niels Abildgaard May 24 '13 at 09:44
Ctrl + F11 didn't work for me on Linux, however, KEYPAD_7 did! – Emiliano Jun 20 '13 at 22:31
[left-ctrl] + [F11] works on my Kubuntu Linux 13.10 (right-ctrl don't) - oh the joy – Larpon Jan 26 '14 at 13:24
Simple, right to the core. You deserve more than +1. – rpax Jul 06 '14 at 15:24
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Pressing ctrl-F11 or ctrl-F12 on OSX rotates the window, but the content doesn't adjust its orientation to be readable; it stays sideways with the rotation of the window. Any suggestions? – dbconfession Sep 06 '14 at 00:30
Your layout is not set to rotate. Some of you don't need to hold fn on a mac because you've changed the default function of the F- keys from accessing functions. – Andrew G Jan 15 '15 at 22:03
Ctrl-Fn-F11, seriously?! Would it kill Google to add this to the emulator menu? – Pol Oct 03 '15 at 17:28
left-ctrl F11 on Windows is bringing up some sort of measurement tool. The emulator has a side menu of rotation buttons, but they do nothing. – Gerry May 31 '18 at 17:28

score 82 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 28 '13 at 14:58

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Not sure about your question - "sideways" is the same as "landscape".

If you mean how to switch during runtime:

Switch to previous layout orientation (for example, portrait, landscape): KEYPAD_7, Ctrl + F11
Switch to next layout orientation (for example, portrait, landscape): KEYPAD_9, Ctrl + F12

From docs.

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Tried this, has no effect on the emulator for me (on a Macbook). – codeman Apr 11 '10 at 22:42
Not even ctrl+f11 and ctrl+f12? Hm, can you try pressing the "fn" key followed by "7" or "9"? – fornwall Apr 11 '10 at 22:48
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Figured it out. Have to do: ctrl+fn+F11 – codeman Apr 11 '10 at 23:11
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And if that doesn't work try, ctrl+cmd+F11. There is a slight lag while the app resets. – Gary Aug 24 '10 at 18:01
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On my case windows live 7 cmd = (thw window key) Thanks @Gary Rowe – Fabio Milheiro Aug 28 '10 at 13:35
Because there's no incentive for askers to mark answers correct here! That's why there's hundreds of thousands of unmarked answers. – Mar 03 '11 at 21:33

score 28 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 03 '20 at 15:02

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Just use 9 in numeric keyboard with num-lock off.

Image showing the numpad with 9 highlighted

7 rotates in the opposite direction.

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answered Feb 04 '15 at 09:12

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score 9 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 15 '18 at 18:19

Android Emulator Shortcuts

Ctrl+F11 Switch layout orientation portrait/landscape backwards

Ctrl+F12 Switch layout orientation portrait/landscape forwards

Main Device Keys

Home Home Button

F2 Left Softkey / Menu / Settings button (or PgUp)

Shift+F2 Right Softkey / Star button (or PgDn)

Esc Back Button

F3 Call/ dial Button

F4 Hang up / end call button

F5 Search Button

Other Device Keys

Ctrl+F5 Volume up (or + on numeric keyboard with Num Lock off) Ctrl+F6 Volume down (or + on numeric keyboard with Num Lock off) F7 Power Button Ctrl+F3 Camera Button

Ctrl+F11Switch layout orientation portrait/landscape backwards

Ctrl+F12 Switch layout orientation portrait/landscape forwards

F8 Toggle cell network

F9 Toggle code profiling

Alt+Enter Toggle fullscreen mode

F6 Toggle trackball mode

Android Studio 4.0 with Ctrl + F11 and Ctrl + F12 now utilizes multi-finger swiping instead of changing orientation of the device that is being emulated. — Ron Zhang, Jan 13 '21 at 01:28

score 9 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 07 '21 at 09:32

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It will cost 4 hours of researching. Don't forget enable auto-rotation in your virtual devices!

answered Mar 07 '21 at 09:32

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Thanks! As a note for others, this setting in Android 33 is under Settings > Accessibility > System Controls. – blwinters May 23 '23 at 17:51

score 6 · Answer 6 · edited Jul 30 '12 at 09:41

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Ctrl+F11 or Ctrl+F12 to change the orientation of the android emulator on windows

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Grigori A. · Answer 7 · 2014-02-28T08:27:48.547

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On iMac with long keyboard (keyboard with numeric keypad at the right):

(1) Cmd + 7 (on numeric part of keyboard)
(2) Cmd + 9 (on numeric part of keyboard)

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score 4 · Answer 8 · edited Mar 15 '18 at 18:19

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I'm using Android Studio and none of the suggestions worked. I can turn the emulator but it stays in portrait. I didn't want to add a command in the manifest forcing landscape. The fix for me was:

turn the emulator to landscape mode using ctrlF11 (the image will still be in portrait though)
Open up the camera in the os, it opens up in landscape mode, the only app that does this
without doing anything else, debug my app from Android Studio and now it shows up in landscape

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I'm having the same issue with a emulator running eclipse, apparently its a known issue with API19. For more and some work arounds: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17964833/android-emulator-not-rotating-to-landscape – sirclesam Apr 30 '15 at 00:10

score 4 · Answer 9 · answered Mar 22 '16 at 17:48

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This is now much more intuitive. The AVD interface now includes a sidebar with various functional shortcuts. The buttons circled in blue will rotate the device clockwise and counterclockwise on the screen.

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Those buttons do nothing. If they actually worked, I wouldn't need to google for a fix to this problem. – Gerry May 31 '18 at 17:29

score 3 · Answer 10 · edited Mar 15 '18 at 18:21

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Just a little bug (Bug for me) I found on mac emulator.

On changing the orientation to landscape (CtrlCmdF11) it changes to landscape but content shows in portrait format.for that:

Go to emulator: Settings-> Display->When device is rotated->Rotate the contents of the screen

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score 3 · Answer 11 · edited Mar 31 '16 at 19:22

I have found that sometimes the CTRL + F11 combination just doesn't do it for me. I have solved it by disabling the keyboard input in the emulator settings.

To do that, go to your emulator settings, klick the "show advanced settings" button and scroll all the way down. Then, disable the "enable keyboard input" option.

After doing that, try to start your emulator again, and the CTRL + F11 combination should work.

enable keyboard input option

score 3 · Answer 12 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Here are some ways to move landscape on Android Emulator:

1. Mac:

Ctrl + Fn + F11
Keypad 7 or Keypad 9
Ctrl + F12 or Ctrl + Fn + F12
Command + 7 or Command + 9

2. Windows:

Left Ctrl + F11 or Ctrl + F12

3. Linux:

Ctrl + F11

4. Android studio :

We can write screenOrientation = "landscape" in the androidManifest.xml file.

5. Keyboard:

in side the emulator, turn off the Num-Lock and press Keypad 7 and Keypad 9.

6. Emulator:

click the rotate button on the screen shown below.

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click the rotate button on the screen shown below.

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The images no longer exist @NoviceProgrammer! – Sambhav Khandelwal Nov 06 '22 at 05:57

score 2 · Answer 13 · edited Apr 28 '13 at 14:58

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Ctrl + F11 works wonderfully on Ubuntu / Linux Mint.

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score 2 · Answer 14 · edited Jul 27 '13 at 03:59

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following for different plateform

WINDOWS: Ctrl + F12

LINUX: Ctrl + F12

MAC OS X: control + F12 (or fn + control + F12, depending on your keyboard configuration)

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score 1 · Answer 15 · answered Jul 30 '13 at 08:35

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The complete listing is buried in the android docs, and i only found it via google / dogpile.

http://developer.android.com/tools/help/emulator.html

That link has the emulator shortcut keys as of right now.

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score 1 · Answer 16 · answered Mar 27 '14 at 03:48

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To rotate the Android Emulator, just disable the Num Lock key and and use the 7 and the 9 in the num pad to rotate the emulator and change its layout from portrait to landscape.

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score 1 · Answer 17 · answered Mar 04 '20 at 01:06

10 years later, I run into the same problem... For me, the issue is that it was literally disabled in my emulator.

Go to the running emulator, and drag down from the top menu area to make it show the action buttons and notifications. Those action buttons show what features are enabled/disabled, like Wifi, airplane mode, and....rotate.

In my emulator, the 3rd button from the left was the "rotate" button, and it was gray. Once I tapped on it to toggle it on, boom, my app would now switch to landscape mode when I rotated it.

score 1 · Answer 18 · edited Apr 28 '13 at 14:58

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for windows try left Ctrl key with F11 or F12 or Num off 7

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score 0 · Answer 19 · edited Dec 13 '12 at 12:52

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control+fn+F11 will do. There's no need for "command" key

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score 0 · Answer 20 · edited Apr 28 '13 at 14:58

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In my windows-8 laptop, ctrl + fn + F11 works.

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score 0 · Answer 21 · edited Apr 28 '13 at 14:58

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Ctrl + F12 also works well on linux(ubuntu).

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score 0 · Answer 22 · answered Jun 24 '14 at 06:47

make sure that your hardware keyboard is enable while creating your AVD

-launch the emulator -install your app -launch your app -make sure that your Num lock is on -Press '7' &'9' from your num pad to change your orientation landscape to portrait & portrait to landscape.

score 0 · Answer 23 · answered Feb 03 '20 at 03:20

In my case, i succeeded by doing this:

1- enable 'Auto-Rotate', if it isn´t yet.
2- either use rotation left-right option at panel located next to the virtual device, or click (ctrl + left/right arrow key), in order to rotate the device.

Hope it works for you.

score 0 · Answer 24 · answered Sep 16 '20 at 14:46

On the emulator click down at the top and drag down to bring down the menu. the fourth button from the left (Arrows) is the rotate lock. If it is grey click it and it will turn blue.

Then you can click the rotate phone icon on the right-hand sidebar of the emulator and your screen will rotate.

Stephan Branczyk · Answer 25 · 2013-07-19T22:27:12.653

For those of you with a Chromebook Pixel/Ubuntu/Crouton with no numpad, installing the onboard keyboard worked for me.

image of onboard software keyboard on ubuntu

Just press 123 to access the numpad layout, and then press 7

If you're on Unity already, onboard may already be installed, so just type onboard from your command line to see if it's there.

If not, just type:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install onboard

PS: The Chromebook Pixel's upper keys were supposed to represent the traditional F1 through F11 function keys on Ubuntu/Crouton, so you may want to try those special hardware keys first (on their own or in combination with Ctrl). It's just that for me, I'm running an old copy of Crouton, and the only function key that seems to be recognized is F6

score -1 · Answer 26 · answered Mar 13 '19 at 08:27

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If you can not switch to landscape(or portrait) while using ctr+f11/12 Maybe the virtual device (android phone) itself lock the rotation. Going to the android control center (pull down on the home page), and unlock.

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this question is for the emulator not for a real phone - ctrl + f11/12 is also allready proposed – Skandix Mar 13 '19 at 08:51
of course this question is about rotation on the emulator , virtual phone could also lock the rotation switch, and that is a default setting , I came across this situation.and the keyboard control doesnt work . – kok sun Mar 14 '19 at 09:08

score -6 · Answer 27 · answered Aug 30 '10 at 11:08

To switch to Landscape mode in android emulator u have 2 ways to accomplish.

1> You can create a relative layout such that when you switch from one mode to other it will change accordingly

2> You can create 2 separate XML file both the views and use it whenever required

Switching to landscape mode in Android Emulator

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1. Mac:

2. Windows:

3. Linux:

4. Android studio :

5. Keyboard:

6. Emulator:

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