It may also make sense to make a feature request on the emulator to enable full screen mode. If you do successfully please write it in the comments (or directly edit this post with the steps). I've not tested any of them, so that's left as an exercise to the reader. For example, for the iOS simulator, you have to run this on a terminal: defaults write AllowFullscreenMode -bool YESĪ Google search returns several results to do this with the Android Emulator: There seem to be hacks to activate full screen mode for applications that don't support it natively. Unfortunately the Android emulator does not do this. It is possible to do this with applications that supports full screen mode. Hopefully we can turn it into a 100% answer. This is not a 100% answer, but near to it and since it doesn't fit in comments, I'll write it here.