React Native: android emulator won't show up developer menu

Question

Cmd-M (in Mac) is supposed to bring up the dev menu in android emulator, but when I press cmd-M, it shows the pan gesture(?) as shown in the screenshot.

How can I open up the react native dev menu?

adb shell input keyevent KEYCODE_MENU doesn't show up the menu either..

I can't find menu button either?

Answer 1

Had exact the same problem and could not open the developer menu neither with ctrl + M nor with adb shell input keyevent 82. ctrl would also show this strange gesture object.

Turned out I had run the app in non-development mode (done with expo via expo start --no-dev) and the menu is only enabled in development mode. After expo start --dev it works like a charm.

Answer 2

You can open it from the option button of the emulator or with this command adb shell input keyevent 82