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Android Android Activity Lifecycle The Activity Lifecycle Retrieving Instance State

Posted by zhenhuazhu
zhenhuazhu
2,417 Points

The screen's orientation is not changing

I am using Windows and CTRL + F11 is not rotating the emulator. I manually rotated the emulator using the toolbar but the layout remains in portrait mode. I started a new project and tried rotating the sample Hello World activity, but that also remained in portrait mode.

S L
S L
31,336 Points

On android studio version 3.3.2 the rotation shortcuts are CTRL-left arrow and CTRL-right arrow.

I also had the rotation bug where the screen inside the emulator did not actually rotate - the workaround that made it rotate again was disabling "Enable keyboard input" in Android Virtual Device Manager -> The "Edit this AVD" icon in Actions clumn -> Show Advanced Settings.

The issue seems specific for certain device emulations ( like Nexus 5X ) on Nexus 7 tablet it rotated fine without disabling that setting.

2 Answers

duanechandler
duanechandler
4,232 Points
duanechandler
duanechandler
4,232 Points

Check the auto-rotate setting in the swipe-down notification bar at the top of the virtual phone is enabled.