Android emulator control buttons (back, home, recent) are not working

Question

I have installed android emulator through terminal

system-images;android-29;google_apis;x86_64 | 10 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom_64 System Image

I have installed this sdk with the help of sdkmanager and I have created an avd with avdmanager. I am able to run my application in the avd, but back, home, task buttons are not working, there was no effect by clicking that buttons. I have been working on this and most of the answers suggested either enable focus on mouse hover feature in gnome-tweaks or edit hw.keyboard parameter in android/avd/config.ini file. focus on mouse hover feature didn't help me and I dont have avd folder in my android directory. I am using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Nard

Answer 1

Go to AVD Manager and do a 'Cold boot'

Imposition

Answer 2

Just run into this, and after all research the steps that finally worked for me were:

• Edit config.ini file and set hw.keyboard = yes (let hw.mainKeys and hw.dPad be no as default)
• In the emulator, go to Settings screen > System > Gestures > System Navigation (using Pixel/Android 13.0 image) and select "3-Button Navigation"
• Restart emulator

Bienne

Answer 3

The "cold boot" did the trick for me as well. For those who don't use Android Studio or AVD Manager UI, you can change this in the config.ini of the avd image.

The relevant properties:

fastboot.forceChosenSnapshotBoot = no
fastboot.forceColdBoot = yes
fastboot.forceFastBoot = no

On my Windows machine, that file can be found in C:\Tools\AndroidSDK\.android\avd\android_11_sdk_30.avd\config.ini, but of course this will vary on other machines...

Infeudation

Answer 4

Just goto the

C:\Users\YourUserName\.android\avd\Pixel_4_API_30.avd\

This folder have .lock file just delete it but before deleting it close the emulator and then delete it.

Restart your emulator and its working fine.

Timm

Still not work after delete it – Layman