The producers of the aforementioned Android controllers will rely on developers using their free software development kits to include controller support for their games.

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Before I get into detail, allow me a short disclaimer: The hardware I played with was a prototype, not a finished production model, and the games I played with were essentially proof of concept demos, not necessarily software under development.

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