On screen joysticks and real gamepad on android Problem

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Since the usual approach in the examples to onscreen joysticks is to emulate a gamepad I do it like that,

but I wanted to disable Onscreen controls if it detects a change in the control scheme and detects a gamepad

with

///pseudo code
if current.Controlscheme=="gamepad"
{
OnScreencontrolcanvas.SetActive(false);
}

but since both onscreen joystick and real gamepad use the same control scheme, as soon as I try to move the player with the virtual joystick, the OnscreenControlCanvas is disabled.

what should be the approach to this problem?.

2

Could you not create another control scheme that lists the touchscreen as the required device? then use

if(current.ControlScheme=="gamepad")
{
OnScreenControlCanvas.SetActive(false);
}
else if(current.ControlScheme=="touch")
{
OnScreenControlCanves.SetActive(true);
}
3

No, Cuz the Onscreen controls would still be emulating the gampedad control scheme. making the active control scheme the gamepad even when using the touchscreen

I already have the two control schemes , “gamepad” an “Phone”, like I said before since the onscreen controls emulate a gamepad input , the control scheme will always be gamepad,
I also get input stuttering sometimes from the control scheme fighting between the gamepad and touchscreen.

and sometimes the Onscreen controls get stucked and don’t work at all.

4

Maybe you can use onControlsChanged to enable and disable the onscreen controls. https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.0/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.PlayerInput.html#UnityEngine_InputSystem_PlayerInput_onControlsChanged I’m still not sure how to differentiate between the controller and on screen controls unfortunately. I would think the information you need would be somewhere in the device code, but it seems well hidden.

You could also potentially use this https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.1/manual/HowDoI.html#get-all-current-touches-from-the-touchscreen. If there are no active touches in the array, you can disable the on screen controls.

5

I am already using OnControlsChanged(), I am going to ditch OnScreenbutton and OnscreenStick scripts for now, and use the default UI button script for buttons and make a script for the stick.

To the input system developers:

For the Onscreen controls scripts it would be better if instead of biding controlpaths you could bind the Action() itself.

I don’t know if that would be possible tho.

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