Android emulator not rotating to landscape

Question

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

Answer 1

If everything else fails (it did for me), as a workaround you can use application for screen orientation. In the other question (Impossible to rotate the emulator with android 4.4), user vldmrrr wrote that:

Until it is fixed I use this free application "Set Orientation". Install the apk into emulator using adb install.

The application displays a shortcut in the notification status bar. (I know it's an old question, but it's pretty high in google).

Answer 2

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