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.