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Enable the keyboard in an Android emulator

After creating an Android application using the great Xamarin tools, it was finally time to do some intensive testing on the Android emulator. When starting to test I noticed something really annoying, I had to type everything through the onscreen keyboard and couldn’t use the physical keyboard on my development machine.

Fixing this is easy by changing the settings of a specific emulator device:

  • Open the AVD Manager.

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  • Select an emulator device.
  • Click on Edit… to edit the properties of this device. The Edit AVD window is loaded.

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  • In the Hardware section, click on New... A list is loaded with all the properties you can configure.

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  • In the Property drop-down list, select Keyboard Support and press OK.

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  • This add the property in the hardware list.

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  • Click on the value column and change it to "yes".

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  • Click on "Edit AVD" once again to save your changes.
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