No software buttons for the ICS emulator?

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smith324 picture smith324 · Dec 6, 2011 · Viewed 11k times · Source

So I'm working on an update for my application from 3.0 to 4.0 and I'm having issues with the emulator. Specifically, the software buttons do not appear when using the Galaxy Nexus~ish skin (I'm not sure its exact, but it should be close enough).

This is the WXGA720, its values:

Hardware Back/Home keys = no
Abstracted LCD Density = 320
Keyboard Lid Support = no
Max VM Heap = 48
Device Ram Size = 1024

The first line is the most important, because it tells the emulator we need software keys for back/home. This works using the WXGA800 skin (tablet) - even using API level 14 (ICS).

Screenshot of missing keys (Don't mind the jaged edges in the screenshot, I have the emulator scaled down - this doesn't affect the keys not appearing) As you can see its difficult to interact with the emulator since I have no back/home buttons.

So the software keys show up for the tablet skin but not the phone. Has anyone else solved this issue?

EDIT

I've changed the screenshot to reflect the latest version of the tools, r16. The buttons appear using the WVGA800 skin and hardware back/home = no.

Answer

Abhinav Manchanda picture Abhinav Manchanda · Dec 6, 2011

Use your Keyboard's "Home" for Home, "Esc" for back and "Page Up" for Menu.

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