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Why did keyboard input stop working in Android Emulator

Recently upgraded my Android SDK install to r20 and now keyboard input seem to have stopped working with both existing and new AVDs.

Everything was working fine prior to the upgrade.

Does anyone know what would have caused this? (I'm using ubuntu 12.04 x64).

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Maks Avatar asked Jul 02 '12 04:07

Maks


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2 Answers

I solved this problem by adding "Keyboard Support" to the AVD within the AVD-Manager and changing the value to "true".

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Mark Schmidt Avatar answered Oct 04 '22 06:10

Mark Schmidt


Turns out its a change in the default settings for the emulator in r20 of the Android SDK.

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Maks Avatar answered Oct 04 '22 05:10

Maks