Gamepad Pro: Key Mapper
Your controller plays touch-only Android games (no root)
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Android games are mostly touch-only, so your controller sits there. Gamepad Pro turns its buttons, both sticks and L2/R2 into taps on screen — a separate layout for every game. Drag each control where it should press, save, launch from the app. No root, no PC, no ADB. Made for shooters, MOBA, racing and open-world games where you move and aim at once. Free: 2 layouts per game, 3 games, with ads. One-time Pro removes the ads and unlocks the rest. 500,000+ installs, 24 languages.
PH · launched Sep 29, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views
Niche: game controller mapping tools · 47 launches, 0 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Games
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Could you build this?
No Simulating touch input from a gamepad without root, PC, or ADB on modern Android requires low-level Android OS internals, Accessibility Services exploitation, or custom virtualization runtimes.
What it would actually take: Building this requires deep Android low-level systems expertise, reverse engineering the Android input subsystem, and leveraging complex virtual display/overlay or Shizuku/accessibility workarounds that bypass OS security boundaries to inject MotionEvents into other running sandboxed processes.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 404 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #33 of 405 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 323 days after the earliest competitor.
- Gamepad Tester Pro: Controller · ph · 2026-09-30 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- JoyLink: Phone as Gamepad · ph · 2026-09-27 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Sofa Remote · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- GamepadTesterPro · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Arcade Controller Pro · ph · 2026-10-27 · 108 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Gamepad Tester · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- GamepadTesters · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- inlay · github · 2026-09-30 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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