The Android emulator is out of view, how can I move it?

Question

I used an additional display with my laptop and moved the Android emulator there. It seems to remember the location even if the display is not connected anymore.

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Answer 1

if you see the toolbar next to it but don't see the emulator, click on the zoom button and it will appear.

Answer 2

You can use this Method for moving any window that is off the screen in a windows environment.

• First Select the window either by Alt-Tab or Click clicking it
• Press Alt & Space keys together
• Press "M" or select it with the mouse Use your arrow keys to move the Window
• Press Enter to exit

This is far easier than editing any files.

Answer 3

For windows 10 users, just press

ctrl + alt + up_arrow_key

Side note:

ctrl + alt + left_arrow_key
ctrl + alt + right_arrow_key
ctrl + alt + down_arrow_key

this will rotate your screen

Answer 4

It was easy. I opened the avd location and the file emulator-user.ini contains the location and can be changed.

Maybe someone else needs it.

Answer 5

Alt + Space works just fine. The emulator-user.ini answer did not work for me.

Thanks.

Answer 6

more exactly from your home directory

(on Linux: $HOME/ on Windows: C:\Users\<your user> ) go into

.android/avd/<image name>

open the file emulator-user.ini and set window.x and window.y to 0.

window.x = 0
window.y = 0

If you don't see the hidden dir .android on Linux press Ctrl+H and from Windows select View>Options>View (Tab) and select "Show hidden files"

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EDIT:

If the file emulator-user.ini doesn't exist, close the emulator window, then check the avd directory again. This is because emulator-user.ini is generated after the first run of the emulator.