Author : Akshay Kokate, Anay Karkhanis, Anushka Bhat, Chandrakant Khalse and Shalini.V.Wankhade

Expansion of games industry came in modern life, accompanied with innovative features in a game controller. Nowadays mobile industry is booming with the expansion of the variety of novel technologies, such as the use of 3D accelerometer sensors, high resolution cameras, and the capability of connecting to wireless networks and so on. Therefore, a smartphone can be added with the game control functions to become a mobile game controller. In this paper, we propose the design and implementation of making a mobile phone as a game controller using User Datagram Protocol socket programming. This system is developed by Java 2 Standard Edition and Google Android Software Development Kits which has already provided sensor and multi-touch APIs.

Keywords: Game controller, Smartphone, Android, Java 2 Standard Edition, Sensor API

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.4, No.6 (Dec-2014)