Android Studio - AVD doesn't recognize gestures (cant unlock emulator)

Question

I just started learning to program for android and sadly after making one program (Hello World) I have already ran into an issue. The gesture for "Swipe to Unlock" or for the camera are not functioning. I can bypass it on the stock emulator because it shows a notification i can click that will skip the screen, however i would much rather just figure out a solution, i have searched around on Google and StackOverflow to no avail... maybe someone can help out.

Thanks in advance, Jon

Answer 1

ok solved! for those that might have the same problem, just press f2

Answer 2

adb shell input keyevent 82

我有同样的问题并且厌倦了它，这总是有效的。

Answer 3

AVD_WXGA_TABLET emulator. Android v 7

F2 does nothing. Dragging with left-down mouse tries to do a swipe up but bounces back down when I release the mouse. I've tried fast and slow, release on the virtual device or off it. Short and long strokes. You name it...

The f'ing thing won't unlock. And for all the keystrokes available in the tool pallet including fingerprints, there is no simple swipe-left/up/down/right. You'd think they would have had cntrol-alt-arrow for that out of sheer common sense or as the result of the developer trying to use it.

Answer 4

In my case, I just restarted the simulator by holding down the "Power" button in the simulator menu for a couple of seconds and then choosing "Restart." I was able to unlock the simulator easily after that.

Answer 5

I'm not sure exactly which step solved it, maybe all, but these were my steps

• Use the SDK manager to update to the latest version of the emulator
• Turn off the emulator (hold the power button and select Power Off)
• Close Android Studio
• Reopen Android Studio
• Launch the emulator from the AVD manager

Answer 6

On mac you can keep holding the command key and then do the swipe gesture with the mouse or trackpad of your computer.

Video

Answer 7

Try using one of two ways

• Swipe up from top section of screen
• Swipe up from bottom section of screen ie just above the navigation buttons.