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If you own the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, you may be frustrated by the limited number of available games optimized for your phone’s built-in gamepad. While Sony Ericsson (now just Sony) tried its best to convince many major publishers to release such titles, the fact is that most games rely exclusively on touchscreen controls.
Enter GameKeyboard, a new Android app that will make every friggin’ game use Xperia Play’s physical buttons rather than on-screen ones. It’s not super-easy to make it work, but it’s not complicated either.
First of all, you’ll need to root your PlayStation-certified smartphone and then buy GameKeyboard from Google Play (it cost some 2.5 bucks). Then you’ll need to do some other things which are nicely described in the video below, and mark touch-screen inputs to hardware buttons for every game you want to play with the side-sliding gamepad. It sounds like a pain, but it’s really a one-time thing and well worth the effort… or at least I think so…
Here’s the video I’ve been talking about and you can get GameKeyboard from the link below.
GameKeyboard ($2.41) [Google Play link]
About The Author
Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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