How do I change screen orientation in the Android emulator?

AndroidEmulationScreen Orientation

Android Problem Overview

How do we change emulator screen orientation to landscape or portrait?

Android Solutions

Solution 1 - Android

Ctrl+F12 is the keyboard shortcut.

Solution 2 - Android

Android Emulator Shortcuts

Ctrl+F11 Switch layout orientation portrait/landscape backwards

Ctrl+F12 Switch layout orientation portrait/landscape forwards

1. Main Device Keys

Home Home Button

F2 Left Softkey / Menu / Settings button (or Page up)

Shift+f2 Right Softkey / Star button (or Page down)

Esc Back Button

F3 Call/ dial Button

F4 Hang up / end call button

F5 Search Button

2. 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+F11 Switch 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

Solution 3 - Android

For those pesky Apple MacBook keyboard layouts that otherwise adjust the volume, use Ctrl + fn + F12.

Solution 4 - Android

Num 7 on keypad does it for me. Remember it works only when Num Lock is off.

Solution 5 - Android

ctrl+fn+F11 on Mac to change the landscape to portrait and vice versa.

left-ctrl+F11on Windows 7.

ctrl+F11on Linux.

Solution 6 - Android

Ctrl + F11 and Ctrl + F12 both work.

Solution 7 - Android

On Ubuntu none of the keys (Ctrl+F11/F12 or numpad 7/numpad 9) worked for me. But I can rotate the emulator sending the keys with xdotool.

For example for a VM named "Galaxy_Nexus" I can rotate the emulator with:

xdotool search --name "Galaxy" key "ctrl_L+F11"

Solution 8 - Android

Additionally, you must verify the autorotate setting on the emulator. Because of if this setting is off, you can't change the orientation besides press the rotate buttons. In the following picture, I will show how you can do this.

Activate Autorotate Setting

Solution 9 - Android

Ctrl + F11, numpad 7 and numpad 9 don't work on my Ubuntu box, but Ctrl + F12 does.

Solution 10 - Android

For Mac, use:

Ctrl + FN + F11

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Solution 11 - Android

You no longer need to remember the shortcuts. The latest Android AVD interface contains a sidebar with various functional shortcuts. I've circled in blue the buttons that rotate the screen clockwise and counter-clockwise.

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Solution 12 - Android

Ubuntu Release 12.04 (precise) 64-bit
DELL Latitude E6320

CTRL + (double tap on F12)

Solution 13 - Android

Fn + 7 is a solution for keyboards where the num keypad is merged with the main keypad. Here the key with 7 (and &) is the key that has the blue-coloured 7.

Solution 14 - Android

Android Emulator Shortcuts

Ctrl+F11 Switch layout orientation portrait/landscape backwards

Ctrl+F12 Switch layout orientation portrait/landscape forwards

  1. Main Device Keys

Home Home Button

F2 Left Softkey / Menu / Settings button (or Page up)

Shift+F2 Right Softkey / Star button (or Page down)

Esc Back Button

F3 Call/ dial Button

F4 Hang up / end call button

F5 Search Button

  1. 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+F11 Switch 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

Solution 15 - Android

On Android Studio 4.0.1, the emulator includes buttons for rotation.

In the image below, the Rotate Left (shortcut: Ctrl + Left) button is outlined in blue and the Rotate Right (shortcut: Ctrl + Right) button is outlined in red.

Android Emulator

After pressing one of the buttons to rotate, the orientation of the application itself will not change. For instance, if we pressed Rotate Left, the application would look this:

Android Emulator Rotated Left

To change the orientation of the running application, it is necessary to click the icon outlined in red above. Note that this icon may take a few seconds to show up and will disappear shortly. Also, when rotating back to portrait orientation, one must press the opposite rotate button for the icon to appear. This means that if we pressed Rotate Left, we need to press Rotate Right to return to the original orientation, and vice versa.

Android Emulator Landscape

Solution 16 - Android

In my notebook, Dell Latitude E4310, the Ctrl+F12 keys do the job.

Solution 17 - Android

Use function + 9 for HP laptops. Others keys specified in previous answers didn't work for me.

Solution 18 - Android

My virtual device could not be rotated. Go to the device list, click settings and change the predefined resolution.

Solution 19 - Android

Left Ctrl+F12 = For Windows 8

Solution 20 - Android

To do this on the Surface

Ctrl+Fn+F12

Solution 21 - Android

With Android Studio:

Windows: Ctrl+Left-Arrow and Ctrl+Right-Arrow

Solution 22 - Android

All of the above methods didn't work for me. Using Left Ctrl + <Windows Key> + F11 worked on Linux Mint 17.

Solution 23 - Android

Super->Ctrl_L->F12 works for me on Fedora 23

Solution 24 - Android

In the updated emulator you don't have to remember the keyboard shortcuts -- they have added a side panel to the right side of the window. You can change the screen orientation by clicking either of the "rotate" buttons in that side panel.

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Just click on Rotate button to change the landscape to portrait and vice versa.

Solution 25 - Android

On Mac to see the help: ⌘/ then you will see Keyboard shortcuts.

Rotate right: ⌘→ , Rotate left: ⌘←

Solution 26 - Android

Ctrl+Left

See documentation here: https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator.html#tasks

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