How enable physical keyboard on Emulator in Android Studio? (Used to work)

Issue

I'm not sure what changed but the physical keyboard from my computer no longer works for the emulator (running kitkat in Nexus 5, x86). When i look in AVD at the device's advanced settings, there's nothing for a hardware keyboard. Where is this setting?

Solution

Find the emulator's configuration in your home directory:

//Located in:
~/.android/avd/<The_Device_Name>/config.ini

For example, on the Nexus 5 (created by Android Studio), it was:

~/.android/avd/Nexus5.avd/config.ini

Change the below setting to be:

hw.keyboard=yes

Answered By - Don Rhummy