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Android usb mouse + keyboard flight

Jul 08, 2014 jen@arvig.net link
Running a Neo x5mini 4.2.2 and the over all graphics are very good " hats off to the developers"

Issue for me is I would like to run a keyboard/mouse setup and gain the same control over the ships as if I was on a pc client.

Current mouse movements resemble a broken joystick action lol

Any insite would be helpfull.
Jul 10, 2014 incarnate link
Basically, Android does not allow "mouse-capture", a-la the classical FPS type of PC experience. We raised this issue internally with the Android input framework team (in person, at Google), as far back as 2010, but they have not been interested in supporting this. We actually did quite a bit of R&D, along with NVIDIA, to try and come up with a workaround.. and it seems like it could be possible if one is willing to write one's own USB driver and handle the mouse input at a very low level, rather than using Android's internal mouse support.

But, that's an undertaking that's too time consuming for us to pursue at present. So, for now we're left with the Android-default "virtual finger" that's provided by the OS.

You can, however, use a joystick and get a pretty PC-like experience. Even some USB flightsticks will actually work in Android, there's more information in the Joystick sticky thread.

Keyboard control is actually not bad either, perhaps better than touchscreen, but not as good as a full mouse interface.