Google is including native support for the official controller for Amazon Luna — competitor to Stadia — to Android.
Since final yr, Amazon Luna has been competing with Google Stadia, providing video video games streaming from the cloud, albeit with a wildly completely different buy and subscription mannequin. Just like Stadia, the official Amazon Luna Controller allows you to ship your button presses over Wi-Fi to the cloud gaming server.
While Wi-Fi is the most popular means to make use of the Luna Controller, it may well additionally perform when plugged in through USB or linked over Bluetooth. To make the most of the controller’s particular buttons, nonetheless, your working system to know the specifics of the controller’s design. To that finish, Android is gaining support for the Amazon Luna Controller, as famous in a new code change in the Android Open Source Project.
The most important change for the Luna Controller’s format when it’s used on Android is that the Alexa button is being mapped to a generic “file” button. Otherwise, the controller ought to mapped out precisely the way you’d count on it to be.
Google has supported a lot of standard controllers in Android over the years, but it surely’s nonetheless good to see them taking part in good with Stadia’s direct competitor, making the Luna Controller higher for use with Android apps and video games of all varieties.
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