Android 17 is set to revolutionize mobile gaming with major controller upgrades. Features include native button remapping and a “virtual gamepad” that allows physical controllers to work with ...

Your iPhone or Android phone can work overtime as a full-on gaming console with the help of these mobile controllers.

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Why this is important: For Android gamers, these changes mean your phone or tablet might finally behave more like a proper gaming machine, with your controller in hand, and no touch-only compromises.

Google looks to be adding an option in Android 17 that will allow users to remap the controls for games to whatever buttons they want on a connected controller. This is something that is technically ...