The default mode is a standard gamepad simulation mode, the second is the Gamepad2Touch mode for games that don't support an external gamepad but only touch actions and the third is Gamepad to Mouse and keyboard for games that support only mouse and keyboard.

With the DroidMote soft Gamepad, you can play multi touch games, games that support an hardware gamepad and games that support mouse and keyboard.

The actions of the buttons and of the axes can be customized with the file droidmotect.kl, but the graphic position of buttons can't be changed because when you play with a phone or a tablet you can use only your thumbs, therefore the current graphic layout is always the best solution to have two sticks and many buttons.

Games with gamepad support:

In the default mode the soft gamepad of DroidMote simulate a real gamepad, so if a game supports a real gamepad you can already play without create a touch profile.

The accelerometer can be used only in games that support a real gamepad and can be customized with the Server side configuration file droidmotect.kl or with a dedicated menu inside the game for gamepad customization ( in this menu, after enabling the accelerometer in the Client Settings > Enable Accelerometer, you can map the accelerometer axes to some predefined game actions ).

If you want use the accelerometer, but your game don't have a dedicated menu for gamepad customization, look this post viewtopic.php?f=14&t=644

All the keyboard's keys, gamepad's buttons, the axes of the sticks and the axes of the accelerometer, can be customized with the Server configuration file droidmotect.kl and you can load your custom keylayout in DroidMote Server > Settings > Change keylayout.

You can copy the default droidmotect.kl file from the folder /data/system/devices/keylayout of the Server device and edit this to add your customizations.

In the Client settings, if you select "Square and Circle to Triggers", the buttons Square and Circle become an analog left trigger and an analog right trigger. The button 18 in the photo below, become also a supplementary analogic left trigger, useful when you want aim and fire at same time.

In the Gamepad Tab of DroidMote Client, the volume up / down are extra buttons for auto fire or other actions.

Games that support only multi touch actions:

To play with a multi touch game, you can create a touch profile with Touch Profile Creator for Android.

Once you have created a touch profile, the resulting xml file can be copied on the device with DroidMote Client inside, in the internal sdcard folder, or in Download folder, or in a special folder called droidmote ( usefull if you want have all touch profiles in one place ).

To play with a multi touch game with a touch profile, you can select it in DroidMote Client settings. Open Settings click on Gamepad2Touch and Select Touch Profile.

When you are in the Gamepad Tab or in Touchpad Tab and you have an hardware gamepad connected to the phone ( bluetooth, wired or wireless, e.g. PS3 gamepad or XBOX gamepad ), the commands of the hardware gamepad are forwarded to DroidMote Server.

This function is useful if you can't connect the hardware gamepad directly to the other android device.

This feature works on Android, Windows and Linux. Is implied that the hardware gamepad must be already compatible with the client device, regardless from DroidMote Client.

Games that support only Mouse and Keyboard:

In the Client settings, if you select Gamepad to Mouse and Keyboard, the default gamepad will emulate a mouse and keyboard. By default you have 13 keyboard keys and 3 buttons dedicated to left and right mouse buttons. Left stick is WASD and the Right stick is the mouse. The main keys, In combination with the Volume +- button, will bring others 16 keys that you can map to secondary actions inside the game. In every games that support mouse and keyboard, you can set the mouse sensitivity and remap every key, so the important fact is that with the soft gamepad you can have 29 keys + mouse buttons. The image below show the current mapping that you can change inside the game.

◉ droidmoteIME:

a.k.a. Conversion of Hardware input devices

Hardware Gamepad also without a Phone

From Android 4.3 in DroidMote Client you can have another usefull feature, the droidmoteIME.

One of the functionalities that you can do with the droidmoteIME is to run on the same android device both the Client and the Server and connect via the loopback address 127.0.0.1

In this way you can use the touch profiles of DroidMote to play multi touch games also with an hardware gamepad connected directly to the Android TV box.

When you use the droidmoteIME, you can control the Mouse or the Touch Mouse with the right stick of your hardware gamepad and click with the Left Trigger. You can control every app and game with your gamepad and write with your voice on any app.

To switch between mouse mode and normal mode, you can press the START / PLAY button of your hardware gamepad.

ATTENTION: You must disable mouse mode to use all mapped buttons in the game, otherwise, when you are in mouse mode, some buttons are used for the follow actions.

When you are in mouse mode:

R1: switch between Mouse and Touch Mouse

ThumbR: switch between Gamepad2Touch and normal gamepad mode

ThumbL: select differents Touch Profiles

X: open voice dictation to write with your voice on every app

Y: delete text

A: act as Enter key

To switch between input method editors ( IME ) you can long press on the keyboard icon of DroidMote Client or from the Android settings.

Multi Touch Games with a Keyboard:

When you have the Client and the Server on the same device, with droidmoteIME enabled, you can also play games with an hardware keyboard. To enable this functionality you can press the F12 button on the keyboard that will be converted in a Gamepad. In this mode you can play games that require a Gamepad and also Multi Touch games with your keyboard. The image below show the current mapping:

KMredirect: DroidMote add-on to Play Games with Mouse and Keyboard:

When you want share the Mouse and Keyboard of a PC to an Android device, you can use the tool KMRedirect. With KMRedirect on PC, the Keyboard and Mouse can also be converted in an hardware gamepad on the remote device with the F2 key, in this way, when you have the droidmoteIME enabled on Android ( droidmote client and server on same device), you can play Multi Touch games and games that require a gamepad with the Mouse and Keyboard of the PC. You can connect KMRedirect to DroidMote Server via LAN or via adb port forward. adb forward tcp:2302 tcp:2302 and after you can connect to 127.0.0.1 In this way you will use tcp over usb cable, no wifi or ethernet. I made also a native Android version of KMredirect, in this way you can connect hardware Mouse and Keyboard directly to the Android device without going through a PC.

The droidmoteIME opens useful scenarios also when you want play Windows games on your android device because you can run the client in background and utilize in foreground your preferred remote desktop app but the beauty is that you can use your preferred hardware gamepad connected to your android device and not to Windows. ( for nomal games and multi touch games )

◉ To sum up:

DroidMote is not just a remote, but an emulator of input devices that can convert hardware input devices in different input devices. E.g. An hardware gamepad in mouse and keyboard or in touch screen or an hardware mouse and keyboard in gamepad or in touch screen.

DroidMote Server is available for Android, Linux, Windows and Chrome OS

With the app Touch Profile Creator you can create and edit the droidmote touch profiles with a screenshot of the game. The resulting xml file can be loaded in DroidMote Client