Android emulator not rotating to landscape

Question

When i try to switch the orientation of my emulator, the emulator window rotates and the orientation of the emulator screen stays as it were. Can anyone tell me what is the reason for this?I have tried all the answers from StackOverflow and nothing seem to help

Answer 1

Some of the emulator targets like 4.4 (API level 19) and 2.3 have a bug. Change your emulator to target version 4.2 or 4.3 and try to change the orientation.

See the history of this bug: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13189

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