Tutorial: Create the Gamepad application

The BlackBerry 10 Native SDK allows you to develop apps that receive events from gamepads and joysticks using the Screen and Windowing Library. In this tutorial, we'll explore the Gamepad sample application to show you how to make your application work with game controllers that use the Bluetooth Human Interface Device profile.

You can download the complete code used in this tutorial from the NDK-Samples repository on GitHub.

Gamepad sample app

You will learn to

  • Discover gamepad and joystick devices
  • Handle connect and disconnect events
  • Handle controller input events
  • Get the controller's current state
  • Map controller buttons to actions in your application