Android emulator not rotating to landscape

Question

When i try to switch the orientation of my emulator, the emulator window rotates and the orientation of the emulator screen stays as it wer

Answer 1

Some of the emulator targets like 4.4 (API level 19) and 2.3 have a bug. Change your emulator to target version 4.2 or 4.3 and try to change the orientation.

See the history of this bug: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13189

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