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Hugo Zapata
Hugo Zapata

Reputation: 4484

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

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.

Is there any way to reset the position of the window so it becomes visible again?

Upvotes: 80

Views: 47626

Answers (12)

ibrust
ibrust

Reputation: 183

For me this occurred after I had resized my emulator view. It began launching way off the screen. While it was partially off the screen I resized it again and it popped back onto the screen. Strange behavior but worth a shot

Upvotes: 1

Hugo Zapata
Hugo Zapata

Reputation: 4484

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

Upvotes: 23

Blerd
Blerd

Reputation: 56

On MacOS, for me it worked by changing the display resolution via Settings -> Displays

Upvotes: 0

Hesam
Hesam

Reputation: 53610

If you are using Mac and you aren't able to move the emulator by normal dragging the emulator then do this.

  1. Display Mission Control using control + arrow up.
  2. Move the emulator to your new window/monitor.
  3. click on the emulator or control + arrow down

done!

Upvotes: -1

josue.0
josue.0

Reputation: 843

In my case none of the answers related to move the emulator window worked.

To make it work with "scale and layout" NOT in 100% (as I had in my case) I had to do this

Also did this (not sure if necessary, but in case somebody needs it):

I had to right click on desktop, then "display properties", then "Advanced scaling settings", then set the scaling to 100% (I had it in 250%), then open the emulator and resize it as small as possible and put it in the top left of my screen. Then "Turn off custom scaling and sign out", then I could see and resize my emulator window.

Upvotes: 0

mdehghani
mdehghani

Reputation: 551

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

Upvotes: 0

IntelliJ Amiya
IntelliJ Amiya

Reputation: 75788

At First Go-to your AVD MANAGER SECTION & Click On It ,Then

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  1. Right Click on Your Virtual Mobile & See "Show On Disk " & Click on it

  2. Then you see Your AVD Drive & see emulator-user.ini & Then open it .

  3. set value window.x = 0 window.y = 0

  4. Close & Restart Your Project & AVD Also .

Upvotes: 21

Emmanuel Deiparine
Emmanuel Deiparine

Reputation: 129

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

Upvotes: 1

Harin Kaklotar
Harin Kaklotar

Reputation: 325

For Windows operating system Control panel -> Programs -> Turn window features on or off -> check Telnet client and Telnet server option -> ok

now open your cmd as administrator come to your 'c' drive path using cd\

C:\Users\Harin>cd\

C:\telnet localhost 5554

now it's open new window write

window scale 0.3

here 5554 is your emulator screen number and 0.3 is your screen size, you can change as you want for example 0.2 or 0.4 etc

Upvotes: 0

Neoheurist
Neoheurist

Reputation: 3484

Alt+Space then use the arrow keys

Upvotes: 15

Darryn Hosking
Darryn Hosking

Reputation: 3238

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.

Upvotes: 196

lory105
lory105

Reputation: 6322

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"

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.

Upvotes: 84

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