Android emulator not rotating to landscape

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insomniac picture insomniac · Jul 31, 2013 · Viewed 25.9k times · Source

When i try to switch the orientation of my emulator, the emulator window rotates and the orientation of the emulator screen stays as it were. Can anyone tell me what is the reason for this?I have tried all the answers from StackOverflow and nothing seem to help This is how the emulator screen looks like when i try to change the orientation

Answer

Amritha picture Amritha · Dec 12, 2013

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.

See the history of this bug: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13189

Related question: Impossible to rotate the emulator with android 4.4

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