Or by manually setting the skin in config.ini: skin. On a related note, if your tablet emulator is missing the BACK/HOME buttons, try selecting WXGA800 as the Built-in skin in the AVD editor: and Android however, the controls can be configured to the keyboard on other. On Mac OS and Linux you can edit all of your emulator configurations with one Terminal command:įor f in ~/.android/avd/*.avd/config.ini do echo 'hw.keyboard=yes' > '$f' done Note: On many notebook computers and most Macs, Function keys (briefly. Similarly, add hw.dPad=yes if you wish to use the arrow-keys to navigate the application list. I explicitly enabled keyboard support in my emulator's config.ini file and that worked! are missing from your emulator you can set hw.mainKeys=no to enable them.Įven though the developer documentation says keyboard support is enabled by default it doesn't seem to be that way in SDK rev 20.

If you notice that the soft (screen-based) main keys Back, Home, etc. I have highlighted some of the more important configuration settings below: As of SDK rev 21 the Android Virtual Device Manager has an improved UI which resolves this issue.