While clearly aimed at Switch Lite owners, the Lite controller is compatible with Switch, PC, and Raspberry Pi. Despite the size of the gamepad, the Lite has a pretty spectacular battery, which is rated at 18 hours of play and charges in just under two hours. The controller works in both Bluetooth and wired mode and comes equipped with a (short) USB-C cord. There's an LED indicator on the bottom and 8BitDo's trademark Star and Heart buttons on the face – used for navigation, screenshots, and Turbo on PC. The bumpers are oddly named R2 and L2 instead of ZR and ZL, but they work the same. The frame is equipped with two rounded triggers and two minuscule chiclets for the bumper buttons. The concave D-Pad fits your thumb pleasantly and depresses with a reassuring click. 8BitDo makes a decent D-Pad, and the Lite is no exception.
The second thing you'll notice is its two asymmetrical D-Pads. The shape makes it feel smaller than it is, and at 3.04 ounces, it feels pleasantly hefty.
My wife says it looks a bit like a McDonald's hash brown, but spray-painted to the exact hue of the Switch Lite and implanted with buttons. Design and FeaturesThe first thing you'll notice about the 8BitDo Lite is that it's small – even smaller than the 8BitDo's SN30.
What’s next? Well, play some games, obviously! You can even sync your game progress between Android devices.That's a question I still can't answer.
Now you know how to connect your Xbox controller to your phone. (Find out all the things you can do with an OTG adapter.) Your Controller Is Ready! For instance, if you have a micro USB connector on your phone or tablet, you’ll want to get a USB OTG (On The Go) adapter to use a wired Xbox 360 controller with the device.
If you’re using an Xbox Series S/X controller or an Elite Series 2 controller, you’re in luck! These controllers come with USB-C cables that should make it easy to directly wire your controller to the vast majority of modern Android devices, which can be useful if you want to use them temporarily with your phone without manually unpairing and re-pairing them to your main PC or console.įor wired Xbox controllers going back to the Xbox 360, you’ll need to first confirm which version of USB the charging port on your phone or tablet uses. Connecting a Wired Xbox Controller on Android If the pairing is successful, you should see the controller appearing under the “Currently Connected” section. While XInput does end up leaving the original controller in the wind, it makes sure that every Xbox controller since the original 360 will be compatible with your modern PC or Android device. After XP, later versions of Windows came with XInput support built in to the point of plug-and-play compatibility. Every Xbox controller since has used XInput, as well as many derivative gamepad designs from companies like Logitech. Microsoft wanted to extend its gaming dominance to Windows just as much as they were doing so on Xbox, so they introduced XInput as an API for the Xbox 360 controllers. Flash back to December 2005 – the Xbox 360 had just released, Windows XP SP1 was just around the corner, and Windows Vista was only two years away. This isn’t an Android-unique issue, though, since that controller also doesn’t work with Windows or modern Xboxes in the way that the controllers listed above do.
The single Xbox controller that IS NOT compatible with Android is the original Xbox controller.