Genshin Impact Finally Adds Native Controller Support on Android

Genshin Impact controller support is finally live on Android. Here's what it means, how it works, and why it took so damn long. The post Genshin Impact Finally Adds Native Controller Support on Android appeared first on Phandroid.

Mar 28, 2025 - 09:28

Genshin Impact Finally Adds Native Controller Support on Android

Genshin Impact controller support is finally live on Android. And honestly? About time.

Sure, players have been hacking together their own solutions for years—using stuff like Razer’s Nexus app to manually map touch controls to a gamepad. It kinda worked. Most of the time. But if you ever tried navigating in-game menus that way, you’d know: it was janky as hell.

Now, with native controller support, Genshin actually plays like a real game on Android. No weird workarounds. No missing features. Just full control—menus and all.

But here’s the kicker: Genshin always had controller support. Just… not on Android.

This is the part that stings a little. The iOS version got native controller support back in 2021. Meanwhile, Android players have been stuck in button-mapping limbo.

Which is kinda ridiculous, given that the game already supports controllers on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. And Android itself supports Bluetooth and wired gamepads like the DualSense or Kishi Ultra out of the box.

The most likely reason? Device fragmentation. Android comes in too many flavors. Supporting them all probably wasn’t worth the dev time. But that’s just a guess. Either way, it took way too long.

According to Android Police, the feature isn’t enabled by default. You have to go into the settings and manually toggle it every time you launch the game. Yeah—every time. No auto-detection. No plug-and-play.

Still, even with that little hassle, this is a win. Genshin Impact controller support finally feels complete. It’s just weird it took this long to get here.

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