Android Games Keyboard Support Coming To Chromebooks
If you are someone like me who love playing android games on Chromebook and you don't have a touch screen, then you might be limited to a small games library that can support a keyboard, but this might be changed soon.
Recently I found out that the Chrome Os team working hard to bring keyboard support to Chromebook android games. So basically if you ever played emulators on your Chromebook like PPSSPP, you know that you can map keys by choosing what button will do what command. Similarly, it will look like that here too. So the idea is to simulate a touchscreen by pressing your keyboard keys. So basically translating buttons into touch events
This update came with Chrome OS 105. So if you have this version you might see in certain games (which I will mention a few in this blog) a keyboard over layer and on the right side of the screen there is a small bar that let you change the key.
List of games that we know so far can run this feature.
Controller Support Games
- Archero
- AXES.io
- Heroics Epic Legend of Archero
- Wizard Legend: Fighting Master
- Pixel Blade R – Revolution
- Zombero: Archero Hero Shooter
- Archer Hunter – Offline Action Adventure Game
- Mr. Autofire
Single Button Games
- Geometry Dash Lite
- Stack Ball – Crash Platforms
- Fire Balls 3D
- Stack Smash
- Drop Stack Ball – Fall Helix Blast Crash 3D
- Helix Smash
- Stack Crush Ball
- Crush Stack Ball Blast
- Stack Fall
- Helix Stack Jump: Smash Ball
- Tap Titans 2
Multi Button Games
- Hill Climb Racing
- Ninja Arashi 2
- Ninja Arashi
- Ninja warrior: legend of adventure games
- Power Hover
- Grimvalor
Swipe Games
- 2048 (Androbaby)
- 2048 Original
- 2048 (Solebon LLC)
- 2048 Number puzzle game
- 2048 (S2Apps)
Just also to mention that google said that this is still an experimental version and we shouldn't expect a lot from it for now. Also not every game can run this as been mention above on my list. But this is already a huge step forward for people like me who enjoys android gaming and would love to see more touchscreen games come up with keyboard support.
