▷How to play with a PS4 or PS3 controller on your Android smartphone or tablet 🥇

How many times have you thought to yourself that it would still be better with a PS3 or PS4 controller on your phone? Our tutorial explains how to use your favorite controller on your Android smartphone or tablet.

Play on Android with your PS3 controller!

If you are an Android gamer and want an efficient controller for gaming, there are plenty of solutions. One of them is play with your PlayStation controller on your Android smartphone or tablet. Thanks to this tutorial, you will be able to play wirelessly via Bluetooth with the PlayStation controller.

If you have a Sony smartphone, you won't need this one. Indeed, the integration of these controllers is an integral part of the ecosystem of the Japanese manufacturer, whether wired or wireless.

Also note that you can play wired in a few seconds thanks to your controller. To do this, all you need is a OTG cable (micro USB to USB), sold for a few coins on online merchant sites. If you want to play wirelessly, however, you will need to follow this tutorial.

How to play with your PlayStation controller on Android

Prerequisites

You must have a smartphone or tablet running Android 2.2 or higher.

Your device must be rooted. If not, you can do it easily with Towelroot or the like.

You must have a PS3 or PS4 controller with its mini USB charging cable.

How to connect and use your PS3 or PS4 controller to play on Android

Activate the Bluetooth of your device.

Download the application Sixaxis Compatibility Checker to find out if your smartphone or tablet is compatible. Warning : your terminal must be rooted for this to work.

- Download Sixaxis Pair Tool on your PC (free), then validate the different installation steps until it searches for a controller.

- Connect the PS3 Sixaxis controller to the PC using the USB cable. You will see a series of numbers appear on the software that correspond to the PS3's MAC address.

- To replace this MAC address with that of your smartphone or tablet, launch the Sixaxis Controler Android application, click on “Start“, You will then see your“Local Bluetooth Adress”Display at the bottom of your phone screen.

- Copy there in the only field available on the PC software, then click on " Update ».

- Download the app now Sixaxis Controller on your Android. It costs 1,94 euros but will allow you to use a PlayStation pad as an Android gamepad and more.

Unplug the PS3 controller from your computer, press the central circle of the controller, then the " Start »Of Sixaxis Controller that you have just downloaded (Do not forget to activate Bluetooth).

The controller light should come on. It is possible to connect up to 4 pads.

Your controller is now well connected to your terminal ! If you want to disconnect it, press the button " Stop Of the application.

How to set up the PS3 controller to play

In the latest versions of Sixaxis Controller, in addition to the support for PlayStation 4 controllers that no one will have missed, there is a setting for make the pad look like an official gamepad for Android. With this small function, most games now work natively with a wireless controller.

Also read : How to use the Remote Play PS4 on all Android devices!

Admittedly, this advance saves us a lot of hassle. Everything is perfectly functional here with in our example the essential Dead Trigger 2 which acquires a new dimension via this game mode.

Launch Sixaxis Controller.

Go to the application settings.

Go in "Gamepad Settings".

Check "Enable Gamepad".

Launch Dead Trigger 2 (available for free on the Play Store).

The game should immediately recognize the controller, as you can notice in the following certified capture with no setting other than this tutorial.

You can now play your Android games with your PlayStation 3 Sixaxis or PlayStation 4 controller ! While this works very well on some games, not all of them are compatible. If you want to complete the panoply of the perfect Android gamer, the GameKlip should interest you. Good game everyone !

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