Nexus 4 , Galaxy Nexus AVD - Landscape not working

Question

I am trying to test my app on different devices and am having problems with the Nexus 4 and Nexus Galaxy Emulators. They are doing the opposite of what I expect them to do, they are locking in portrait instead of landscape.

<activity
    android:name="org.myApp.Main"
    android:screenOrientation="userLandscape" 

I have tested on devices and emulators for Nexus 7,10 and 1 and they are all fine.

Is this a problem with the emulator or are these devices different. Unfortunately I do not have a device available now to test on.

Answer 1

You can test with

 android:screenOrientation="landscape"

and see here differences between userLandscape and landscape :

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html#screen

Answer 2

I just tried changing to Landscape rather than userLandscape and it seem ok now. android:screenOrientation="landscape"

My problem was my AVD was running API 17 and user userLandscape Is 18

SensorLandscape is best for me.