Enable the keyboard on the right side of the emulator
Find the emulator's configuration in your HOME directory.

~/.android/avd/&lt;The_Device_Name&gt;/config.ini


Here the The_Device_Name is the name of the android virtual device your created using the AVD Manager.

Open this configuration file(.ini) using Notepad editor and change the setting to have the below line which enable the keyboard

hw.keyboard=yes