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JGray
JGray

Reputation: 277

Android Studio - AVD doesn't recognize gestures (cant unlock emulator)

I just started learning to program for android and sadly after making one program (Hello World) I have already ran into an issue. The gesture for "Swipe to Unlock" or for the camera are not functioning. I can bypass it on the stock emulator because it shows a notification i can click that will skip the screen, however i would much rather just figure out a solution, i have searched around on Google and StackOverflow to no avail... maybe someone can help out.

Thanks in advance, Jon

Upvotes: 8

Views: 6017

Answers (8)

Ivan Yoed
Ivan Yoed

Reputation: 4415

I'm on this version of Android Studio:

Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2024.2.2 Build #AI-242.23726.103.2422.12816248, built on December 17, 2024 Runtime version: 21.0.4+-12422083-b607.1 aarch64 VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o. Toolkit: sun.lwawt.macosx.LWCToolkit macOS 14.4.1 GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Concurrent GC, G1 Old Generation Memory: 2048M Cores: 10 Metal Rendering is ON Registry: ide.experimental.ui=true i18n.locale= ide.images.show.chessboard=true Non-Bundled Plugins: com.intellij.marketplace (242.24335) com.bloc.intellij_generator_plugin (3.4.0) Dart (242.24931) com.localizely.flutter-intl (1.18.4-2023.2) com.thoughtworks.gauge (242.23726.103) com.github.copilot (1.5.32-242) io.flutter (83.0.3)

What worked for me is checking if there are any updates pending for the SDK tools. In the screenshot I shared I already have everything up to date, but you should check if instead of having check marks, you have minus signs, in which case tap on them and select the icon to download the update. Then hit apply or ok. After that I restarted my Android Studio just to be sure, ran the emulator again and now everything worked.

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Upvotes: 0

Yuvraj Patil
Yuvraj Patil

Reputation: 8766

Try using one of two ways

  • Swipe up from top section of screen
  • Swipe up from bottom section of screen i.e. just above the navigation buttons.

Upvotes: 1

Searock
Searock

Reputation: 11

On mac you can keep holding the command key and then do the swipe gesture with the mouse or trackpad of your computer.

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Upvotes: 1

Dre
Dre

Reputation: 543

I'm not sure exactly which step solved it, maybe all, but these were my steps

  • Use the SDK manager to update to the latest version of the emulator
  • Turn off the emulator (hold the power button and select Power Off)
  • Close Android Studio
  • Reopen Android Studio
  • Launch the emulator from the AVD manager

Upvotes: 0

ScottyB
ScottyB

Reputation: 2497

In my case, I just restarted the simulator by holding down the "Power" button in the simulator menu for a couple of seconds and then choosing "Restart." I was able to unlock the simulator easily after that.

Upvotes: 1

Adham
Adham

Reputation: 500

adb shell input keyevent 82

I had the same issue and grew tired of it, this always worked.

Upvotes: 8

Clint StLaurent
Clint StLaurent

Reputation: 1268

AVD_WXGA_TABLET emulator. Android v 7

F2 does nothing. Dragging with left-down mouse tries to do a swipe up but bounces back down when I release the mouse. I've tried fast and slow, release on the virtual device or off it. Short and long strokes. You name it...

The f'ing thing won't unlock. And for all the keystrokes available in the tool pallet including fingerprints, there is no simple swipe-left/up/down/right. You'd think they would have had cntrol-alt-arrow for that out of sheer common sense or as the result of the developer trying to use it.

Upvotes: 5

JGray
JGray

Reputation: 277

ok solved! for those that might have the same problem, just press f2

Upvotes: 12

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