Android - Emulator in landscape mode, screen does not rotate

Question

When I switch to landscape mode (NUMPAD 7 or CTRL+F11) the emulator rotates the screen to landscape orientation but the Android OS and none

Answer 1

You have to use Android 5.1.1, aka API 22, aka Android 5.1 LOLLIPOP_MR1. Download Android 5.1.1 (API 22) in your Android SDK Manager and when you create a new Android Virtual Device select that as your OS.

As war_Hero mentioned, this bug was reported to Google. The bug is now fixed as of Mar 23 '15:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=61671