Android - Emulator in landscape mode, screen does not rotate
Solution 1:
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.
Solution 2:
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]
Solution 3:
In my case it was solved by disabling the "Hardware keyboard present" checkbox in the "Edit Android Virtual Device (AVD)" window.