[Android Apps and Games] faku1810:
Good app so far; however it could be better.

I've tried NFS Most wanted with the Race mode and it would accelerate and brake only with the arrows in the upper left corner; of course i'm guessing this is because I didn't change any key binding in-game, because gyroscope works well to turn. But i'm missing keys to shift up and shift down, also, this presents forced static key bindings and that's troublesome, not only in this mode but in Shooting too.

In Unreal Tournament 99 I used the shooter mode, and found out that it's not really comfortable to aim, but that was expected. I think it's bothersome that the movement of the camera is temporal, that is.. My left becomes my "front" as long as i keep turned the phone in that direction, if I try to keep the phone in front of me, i'll look to my right again. There should be a way to freeze the view in that direction when i turn.

Also as far as i've seen from the video monect posted, and my actual testing, the app has set bindings for their actions. Here a few examples:

FN + Clockwise rotation : It seems to do something with the G key, because in this game I throw my weapon.

FN + Counter-clockwise rotation : It seems to do something with the V key, like a repeated press as it keeps spawning and closing the Orders menu.

POS + move the device upwards: it works, but i'm guessing it's because it's binded to the space bar, if i changed that in-game it wouldn't jump, probably.

FN + left hand upwards: Instructions say it should change weapon; I got to see it equals to F press, so in this game you feign your death.

There's also the FN binding to the R key when i lift the phone, sometimes i do that to hold the phone more comfty so most of the time, if i try to do any other FN action, i'll open the Team Say window, which disables any further action (in this game, others would be Reload).

Anyways, my point is .. this app is very uncomfortable as it is, it looks like it was tested and designed for one game only, and i don't like that. It's true that in most games we tend to use an "universal" setting. eg. R for Reload, Shift to run, ASDW for movement, C or Ctrl to crouch, Space to jump... etc. however, I'm not going to change all my settings in every game to fit the app needs, it should be the other way around. So you should first add key binding settings so we can adjust the app to our needs, and then something like game profiles and a selector for it. So I can have certain settings for a shooting game, and then change to a different profile if I play another one that uses different keys. For example, Unreal Tournament doesn't have a Reload function, you don't need an R binding for that. then I should be able to disable the FN R binding in the app.

EDIT: for those who wanted to use the keyboard in the phone... Why not just use the Transfer Text option? I use that and it can write with the swype keyboard and then send to the pc. However, i think that's kinda pointless.. but that's just me. However, i would love to have something inverse, that allows me to control the phone with the computer, I've tested a couple of apps, one was even a simple jar, but it wouldn't work. For anyone interested, I've tested MyMobiler for android (the one that's actually called that way) and it works amazingly well, even though it needs you to choose a different keyboard on the phone to use the one of the pc, and only reacts with the screen on, but that's ok since a Right click wakes up the phone. Sorry for the Offtopic, just wanted to mention that.

EDIT2: I hope the author read this sometime because his app is too good to let it "unfinished" (well, that's my point of view but still...) so this time i'd like to ask how possible would be to include a "View Screen" mode, and support to use the public IP to connect to the pc (with password protected acess of course). Because it would be really cool if it could be used not only as a remote control for games (because if you're in the same room, there's really no point to prefer the phone's keyboard over the real one, no matter how much a potato coach you are, but it would come in handy if you needed to use the computer from somewhere else, even through 3G connection) I know this much at least should be possible opening ports and such, as I can use 3g to wake-on-wan my computer with the Wake-on-Wan app.