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Linesofcode

Reputation: 5903

Flutter emulator personal keyboard does not work

I created an emulator with VSCode for Flutter programming purposes, everything works great except the fact that i cannot use my own keyboard to write on TextFields, i'm forced to use the embbed keyboard of the android.

How do i allow key input from my keyboard? enter image description here

Upvotes: 5

Views: 5565

Answers (3)

dosytres
dosytres

Reputation: 2286

Go to emulator -> I/O -> Keyboard -> Toggle Software Keyboard. It also works on Mac when on the emulator select: command + K

Upvotes: 0

anotherglitchinthematrix
anotherglitchinthematrix

Reputation: 791

You need to explicitly specify that option on the emulated device's settings if you've created the emulator using flutter with VSCode.

  1. Open Android Studio.
  2. Hover over the Tools section on the top bar and click AVD Manager
  3. Find your emulated device on the list and click to pen icon to edit device specific settings.
  4. Click to Show Advanced Settings.
  5. Scroll down and make sure Enable keyboard input is ticked.

There is also pictured version of these steps.

Upvotes: 12

persec10000
persec10000

Reputation: 1065

I have used an old emulator for API Level 23, which does not take keyboard input for my apk. So I have created new emulator for API Level 29, and then it works. Following is the step to install new emulator.

  1. Open "Android Virtual Device Manager"
  2. Create new Virtual Device.
  3. When you select a system image, please choose and download the last version(API Level29) on "Virtual Device Configuration" window

Upvotes: 0

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