Microsoft\u2019s egalitarian gamepad will soon work with the latest Pixel phones.<\/b>
\nIn a strange turn of events, mobile, console and PC gamers will soon all use the same controller \u2013 Microsoft\u2019s Xbox One gamepad.
News came today that Android Pie, the latest version of Google\u2019s mobile OS, will fix a longstanding issue that incorrectly mapped the Xbox One\u2019s buttons and prevented gamers from using Microsoft\u2019s gamepad with their Android devices.
Theoretically, this problem could\u2019ve been fixed two years ago (when Microsoft first put Bluetooth inside the Xbox One S gamepads), but it wasn\u2019t until this week that Google’s top engineers finally figured out how to get the phone and the controller to play nice.
This is particularly exciting news for fans of the first-person shooter and battle royale genres on mobile who have been using third-party gamepads to get an edge over their opponents. While Fortnite Mobile’s developers haven’t confirmed the exact timing that the game will support the new input mappings, a representative from Epic Games has told CNET that it will support the Xbox gamepad \u00ab\u00a0sometime in the future\u00a0\u00bb.
That being said, Google has marked the mapping issue resolved in the latest batch of code, which means support for Microsoft’s gamepad should be available on the phones running Android Pie \u2013 namely, the Google Pixel 2, Google Pixel 2 XL, Google Pixel, Google Pixel XL, and Essential Phone \u2013 starting today.
Via XDA Developers<\/p>\n

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