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Android AVD rotate Portrait/Landscape How?


I am new to Android development.

I know if you change a android phone from portrait to landscape sometimes the app relays its self out on the screen.. so how do I simulate rotating a phone with the AVD? On the Blackberry emulators there's a button in the menu to turn the phone, but I can't find it or any option on the Android ones?



What am I missing?


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  1. See the Android documentation on controlling the emulator; it's Ctrl+F11/Ctrl+F12.

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  2. Yes. Thanks

    Ctrl + F11 for Portrait

    and

    Ctrl + F12 for Landscape

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  3. Officially it's Ctrl+F11 & Ctrl+F12 or KEYPAD_7 & KEYPAD_9.

    In practise it's a bit quirky.


    Specifically it's Left Ctrl+F11 and Left Ctrl+F12 to switch to previous orientation and next orientation respectively.
    You have to release Ctrl before you can rotate again.
    KEYPAD_7 and KEYPAD_9 only work with NumLock OFF (so they're acting as Home & PageUp rather than 7 & 9).
    The only orientations are vertically upright and rotated one quarter-turn anti-clockwise.


    Maybe a bit too much info for such a simple question, but it drove me half-mad finding this out.

    Note: This was tested on Android SDK R16 and a very old keyboard, modern keyboards may behave differently.

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