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Adit Gupta
Adit Gupta

Reputation: 863

How do I obtain (view) the virtual keyboard in the AVD (SDK 4.2)?

I am trying to understand the source-code of a keyboard application on the Android Platform and hence it is highly essential that I use the virtual keyboard only instead of my laptop keyboard to input text on the virtual device.

So far I have been unable to launch a virtual keyboard on my "Galaxy Nexus" AVD. Can anybody give me a quick fix to this problem?

Here is a screenshot of what I see in the latest version of the platform-tools (rev 21) in the new AVD enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1872

Answers (1)

Khantahr
Khantahr

Reputation: 8548

If you have the latest version of the platform-tools (revision 21), then create a new AVD to get the new creation dialog. You can select a Galaxy Nexus in the device dropdown, and it should then "just work."

If you have the older platform-tools dialog, there's an option you can add in the window at the bottom to make the virtual keyboard appear. It's something like "hardware keyboard available" and set that to false. I don't remember what it's called exactly because I don't have the old dialog available anymore.

I highly recommend using the new one though, it's much easier to get emulators that resemble real devices.

Upvotes: 2

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