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Problem

The Back, Home and Overview buttons (left pointing triangle, circle, square) buttons don't do anything when clicked in Emulator.

Solution

Go into avd folder. You will find it in:

  • $ANDROID_AVD_HOME if you have set it.
  • $ANDROID_SDK_HOME\avd
  • $HOME\.android\avd
  • $LOCALAPPDATA\.android\avd

In the .avd folder for your emulator (e.g. flutter_emulator.avd), there is a file config.ini. In this file, set hw.keyboard to yes.

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