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user874747
user874747

Reputation:

How to show the Android emulator without a keyboard

I'm using a virtual device whose target is 2.3.1. If I run any of my android applications, the keyboard will show the right side on the emulator (see the image below). But I want to show my emulator without a keyboard. How can I do this?

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Upvotes: 15

Views: 11468

Answers (4)

Borja
Borja

Reputation: 3610

Today I needed to hide the keyboard when starting the emulator and this worked for me.

When emulator is started, in the android keyboard options you can disable the keyboard to hide it.

Emulator keyboard config

Upvotes: 0

Robert
Robert

Reputation: 7053

The two other answers work, but they are not strictly correct. The reason they work is that the resolution suggested use a skin with no keyboard.

If you want to test your application for other screen resolutions you must do the following:

  1. Add the hardware option "Keyboard support" and set it to "no".
  2. Either edit the skin selected, or add a startup option "-noskin" for your emulator.

Personally I prefer the "-noskin" flag, because with no keyboard, the skin does not give me anything extra.

Upvotes: 20

Pattabi Raman
Pattabi Raman

Reputation: 5854

You should change the resolution of Emulator when you create a new AVD. 480 X 800 can used hide the keyboard of emulator.

Upvotes: 13

Andrei Buneyeu
Andrei Buneyeu

Reputation: 6680

In Edit Android Virtual Device => Skins frame you can change skin from "default" (WVGA800, for example) to "Resolution" and manually write resolution of targeted device (480 x 800, for example). Emulator will be shown without keyboard.

Here you can change skin of your android emulator

Upvotes: 15

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