Android - Emulator in landscape mode, screen does not rotate
Another answer here:
in my case the problem was simply that the auto-rotate setting in the android emulator settings (accessible pulling down the notification bar) was disabled, my bad.
In my case it was solved by disabling the "Hardware keyboard present" checkbox in the "Edit Android Virtual Device (AVD)" window.
It is a bug with the 2.3 and 4.4 emulators.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13189 [v2.3]https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=61671 [v4.4]