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how to emulate pressing home button in android emulator

In android emulator as I understand you can emulate most of the functionality of regular phone, back is emulated by ESC , what is shortcut for pressing home button in android emulator.

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Vaibhav Mishra Avatar asked Oct 02 '11 19:10

Vaibhav Mishra


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In android emulator as I understand you can emulate most of the functionality of regular phone, back is emulated by ESC , what is shortcut for pressing home button in android emulator. Show activity on this post. Did you try the Home key on your keyboard?

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Did you try the Home key on your keyboard?

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http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html

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Matt Ball Avatar answered Sep 16 '22 12:09

Matt Ball


From developer android:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Emulated Device Key                      |              Keyboard Key           | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Home                                     |   HOME (FN + left_arrow on Macbooks)|   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Menu (left softkey)                      |          F2 or Page-up button       | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Star (right softkey)                     |         Shift-F2 or Page Down       |   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Back                                     |                  ESC                |  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Call/dial button                         |                   F3                | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Hangup/end call button                   |                   F4                | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Search                                   |                   F5                | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Power button                             |                   F7                | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Audio volume up button                   |        KEYPAD_PLUS, Ctrl-F5         | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Audio volume down button                 |       KEYPAD_MINUS, Ctrl-F6         | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Camera button                            |       Ctrl-KEYPAD_5, Ctrl-F3        | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Switch to previous layout orientation    |         KEYPAD_7, Ctrl-F11          | |(for example,portrait,landscape)          |                                     |  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Switch to next layout orientation        |         KEYPAD_9, Ctrl-F12          | |(for example,portrait,landscape)          |                                     |   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Toggle cell networking on/off             |                   F8                | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Toggle code profiling                    | F9 (only with -trace startup option)| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Toggle fullscreen mode                   |               Alt-Enter             | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Toggle trackball mode                    |                  F6                 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Enter trackball mode temporarily         |                Delete               | |(while key is pressed)                    |                                     | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | DPad left/up/right/down                  |             KEYPAD_4/8/6/2          | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | DPad center click                        |               KEYPAD_5              |   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Onion alpha increase/decrease            |KEYPAD_MULTIPLY(*) / KEYPAD_DIVIDE(/)| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
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Gabe Avatar answered Sep 19 '22 12:09

Gabe