[Fire TV General] harlekinrains:
As a company, supporting all different kinds of Gamepads is a false solution. Following your "demand" you'd end up supporting 10 USD worth of shovelware, having your developers optimize drivers for the 100th no name gamepad in a row.

Again, the Fire TV first and foremost isnt a promising standard for Android Gaming - so emulating or integrating the Amazon control standard isnt sometheing even game developers do in large numbers. If they did - Amazon would probably start blocking clones - because at that point a standard is something that has a value for them. The controllers most people seem to buy are very low quality, driven by the usual 1 star/5 star "rumor mill economy" that essentially is a mirror image of how decision making works on social media. (Reason being, that people usually make decisions based on 3 or 4 keyfacts that sound good at the time. This btw is also how "recommendation harassment" ("Reddit - tell me why I should buy product.") "works".).

Also you don't have any validated claim that "my old Ouya Controller should work" or that "the Ouya App Store should work on the Fire TV" - you basically bought into the ecosystem of a company where it was more than obvious to anyone - that that company would be dead in the water within two years, even before they had produced their first product. Believe me, it really was that obvious. You probably ended up with one regardless because of the "rumor mill economy" described in the paragraph above.. ;) Dont take this as bickering - just look at whos is selling (cheap) Android devices these days. And who's not. (Design companies from Southern California... ;) )

The only way to support the "take any controller - it probably will work" demand that clearly is out there, are open source platforms - where users can provide their own keymappings. (It somewhat works on retroarch.) This means by default - that it cant be a commercial effort. And therefore most games you can buy on stores are exempt.

Amazon has every incentive to restrict controller support with every firmware they put onto the market. If they would take they "gaming angle" seriously. Amazon has no incentive to support "That Ouya controller from that basically defunct company that was swallowed up by another unsuccessful producer of cheap Android boxes for what was left in terms of brand recognition".

Also understand that - for you to ask for someone to write an entire driver, that then would work only on rooted systems - just so you dont have to invest another 10-20 USD for a clone that is "reported to work" - doesnt make much sense either. Devlopers that work in the open source ethos usually dont start by formulating "how can I take time out of my daily schedule to support the most narrow, dying out segment of users - that also have to be rooted". Or with "I have this old 20 USD controller, that isnt very good in the first place, and no one can buy anymore" how do I make it work on a different system?

As the controller already works, and there are only keybinding issues - you could maybe change the default bindings yourself by editing the standard driver mappings in Android.

It could be as easy as this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3314132

But at the same time, please also realize, that just demanding that "stuff should work" isnt the right approach. And demanding a fix for a "user induced problem" from a dev community usually isnt either. Especially if an alternate "fix" just would cost you 20 USD, or doesnt make much sense as part of the dynamics of open source solutions.

They usually only work if people provide more than they are soliciting.

"But I am providing a bug report!" I hear you say! But to what - or to whom? If the product doesnt work as you expected, again - please address Amazon and not the community. If they dont provide you with a satisfactory answer - they still might be the right people to talk to.

Demanding nonexistent, personalized solutions from ethereal beings is called "a prayer" and not a bug report. ;) And if you just wanted to know if it exists - why not use the search function of this forum first?

Also most problems that tend to be worked on by open source communities (/= foundations) are either the real "stumbling blocks" or the "interesting ones" - telling you to buy another 20 USD controller - there is your fix, probably qualifies as neither.. ;)

(The same goes for questions that can be answered with RTFM, first learn how a computer works, learn how to copy a file before you start demanding personalized support, ... stuff like that. And if you need a video to learn how to click a button - try to ask for it on reddit first.. ;) .)